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My vocabulary.com: Stock Market & Finance
This page offers a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 26 words pertaining to the Stock Market & Finance. It also provides an extensive vocabulary word list for the Stock Market and finance and ideas for lesson plans.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Does the Stock Market Work?
In the 1600s, the Dutch East India Company employed hundreds of ships to trade goods around the globe. In order to fund their voyages, the company turned to private citizens to invest money to support trips in exchange for a share of the...
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Stock Market Fell to Lowest Point
This 3-page article provides a general overview of the devastation caused by the fallen stock market during the Depression.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ethics in the Stock Market
In this lesson students will learn about the stock market. They will look at the stock market from an accounting point of view and research a specific stock or industry.
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PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Depression and War: Stock Market Crash of 1929 [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" designed to help learners understand the stock market crash of 1929. They will examine how people got rich in the 1920s (by buying stocks on margin)...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Stock Market Project
Students pick a stock that they would like to follow for a period of 2 weeks. Each day they look up the stock and chart its price. At the end of the two week period they graph their data using the graphing calculator. They compare their...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Absolute Value and Stocks
Sixth graders learn about the stock market and start a project involving tracking investments.
Other
Brotherston and Volpert: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 [Ppt]
A downloadable PowerPoint presentation (46 slides) on the Stock Market crash of 1929. Slides present information about the possible causes of the crash, the events of Black Thursday, the causes of the Great Depression, the failed...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Stock Market Game
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is a basic introduction to the stock market and investment strategy. After presentation of the lesson, the lesson links to a website to play the stock market game.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Market Crashes
Although not the only cause for the Great Depression, the stock market crash in October 1929, showed the weakness of the American economy in a concrete way. Read about how the stock market values were run up by speculation, and how it...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: To Market, to Market
This is a technology-based lesson plan to provide students an opportunity to research and select companies to invest in by 'purchasing' stocks. Students are responsible for tracking and reporting results of investments, as well as...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: The Crash of 1929
This resource is the online home of a PBS documentary film that traces the prosperity of the 1920s which ended with the stock market crash of 1929.
Council for Economic Education
Council for Economic Education: Learning, Earning, and Investing
This course is subtitled "Lessons for a New Generation." It includes twenty-one downloadable lessons with additional activities for each lesson. It covers a wide range of topics from basics such as "Why Save?" and "Invest In Yourself" to...
Other
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: Closed for the Holiday [Pdf]
"Closed for the Holiday" is an excellent account of the consequential events of the Great Depression focusing on the Stock Market Crash of 1929 as the beginning of the Great Depression, and ending with the emergency bank actions Franklin...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: The Great Gatsby: The Roaring Twenties
This lesson focuses on the Roaring Twenties, an era of great economic growth, widespread prosperity, and new technologies. This is era featured in The Great Gatsby; it began at the end of WWI and ended with the Stock Market crash in...
Other
Stock Market Game World Wide
Over the course of 10 weeks, participants invest a hypothetical $100,000 in Nasdaq, Amex, and NYSE-listed common stocks. They research stocks, study how the financial markets work, choose their portfolios, manage budgets, follow...
Other
Stock Market Game World Wide
Over the course of 10 weeks, participants invest a hypothetical $100,000 in Nasdaq, Amex, and NYSE-listed common stocks. They research stocks, study how the financial markets work, choose their portfolios, manage budgets, follow...
Other
Msn: Money: Stocks
This resource offers free access to stock quotes on a daily basis. There are other analytical information such as bearish/bullish trends of the stock .
PBS
Pbs Nova: Play a Virtual Market
Use this site to trade traditional stocks and learn how trading stocks in the market can increase your wealth (or decrease it too!)
PBS
Pbs Nova: Play a Virtual Market
Use this site to trade traditional stocks and learn how trading stocks in the market can increase your wealth (or decrease it too!)
Other
Market Watch
This site describes headlines, charts, news, and stock information. Everything you need to follow the U.S. marketplace.
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: What Is a Stock? Or, Who Owns Mc Donald's?
Lesson plan from the University of Omaha where the students will be able to understand what a stock is.