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Buy, Sell or Hold?: An Overview of Investing

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Break down the often-daunting topic of the stock market with this resource, in which pupils learn basic terminology regarding buying and selling stocks, as well as the factors that influence how much return individuals can receive on...
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Lesson 1 Who Owns the World?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners experience how to turn firsthand knowledge of common products into a useful way of choosing stocks for the Global Stock Game. They engage in a simulation of buying stocks.
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Who Owns the World?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discover how to turn firsthand knowledge of common products into a useful way of choosing stocks for the Global Stock Game. Once students find the parent company of a product, they can buy shares of stock of the larger company
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How Do You Analyze a Corporation?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students find out how to use annual reports to analyze a corporation whose stock they may buy for the Global Stock Game. They read the investor information section, which provides detailed information about the company's products and...
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How Do You Profit From Trading Stocks?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students see how to calculate the gains and losses of their stock portfolios. They use basic math skills in calculating their stock investment the old-fashioned way.
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Following the Stock Market With a Palm

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars research and explore the stock market. They research a three-year history of stocks, develop a group and individual spreadsheets, and follow their stocks and prices for a ten-day period, graphing the results.
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Stock Market Fractions

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars solve addition and subtraction of mixed numbers. After a teacher lead discussion on the stock market, students use addition and subtraction to model the stock exchange. In groups, young scholars participate in a "Stock Up...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: The Market Roller Coaster

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about the American Stock Market and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Education World

Every-Day Edit: Stock Market Crash 1929

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the stock market crash of 1929. The errors range in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Stock Ownership & The Economy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners, in groups, discuss, define and write about several basic economic terms. They create a PiCoMap that reflects the concepts they have discussed and explain the risks and benefits of owning stock.
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Curated OER

Fill-In - October Event in History

For Students 7th - 12th
A lot has happened in the month of October in the past 100 years or so. Kids fill in the blank for 31 events, each of which occurred on a day in October. Each event can be found in a New York Times article from the past 100+ years....
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What Do Financial Market Indicators Tell Us?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Explain the four categories of financial indicators (commodity prices, stock indexes, interest rates, and yield spreads), and help your class members understand how changes in this data can affect decisions regarding consumer spending,...
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Stock Market Math

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students select a company that they like and using technology, in teams, they prepare a class presentation about their company. The class have the option to buy stock or choose a competitor. Each team research a company and buy...
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Risky Business - Or Not!

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the concept of the stock market. In this stock market lesson plan, students discuss the stock market and how it works. Students hypothesize what makes a stock price go up or down. Students watch a short video about...
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Invest in What You Know

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students complete a series of tasks that help them learn about the stock market. In this stock market lesson, students identify companies they are familiar with and learn about stock symbols. Students study the makeup of mini-markets and...
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Buy Low, Sell High

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students investigate the stock market and investing in corporate stocks by creating an investment portfolio. They develop database worksheets that track their stock's performance over a specified period of time. Students use their...
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Introduction to the Great Depression

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders participate in a discussion on the causes and economic events of the 1929 stock market crash. In this stock market lesson plan, 11th graders use this as an introduction to the Great Depression.
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Curated OER

Dow And Jones: Wizards of Wall Street

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students view a documentary on Mr. Dow and Mr. Jones. The Dow-Jones Industrial Average is the most commonly used economic indicator in American finance. After viewing, students discuss what they saw and complete a timeline to chart stock...
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Rising and Falling Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils explore outcomes from the conversion of fractions to decimals in stock market quotes and explore fluctuating interest rates using an amortization calculator.
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Curated OER

Origins of the Great Depression

For Students 9th - 12th
In this economics worksheet, students respond to 11 short answer questions regarding the Great Depression and the stock market crash.
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Stock Tables: Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students investigate how to read stock tables and research stock tables in newspapers or on the Internet. They discuss how they would invest $1000 in stock, examine how to keep track of their shares online, and complete a worksheet in...
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Curated OER

How Do You Profit From Trading Stocks?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars calculate gains and losses of stock portfolios. Although the Global Stock Game (GSG) calculates profits and losses automatically, students should learn the basic math skills in calculating their stock investment the...
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Curated OER

Practice Buying Stocks

For Students 6th - 9th
In this practice buying stocks worksheet, students utilize a chart to answer five comprehension questions about buying stocks and then participate in selling stocks.
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Talking Bulls and Bears

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students compare and contrast bull and bear markets. In this stock market lesson, students visit the noted Web sites to study supply and demand, the stock exchange, and financial scandals.

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