In Part II of this instructional activity, students will have the opportunity to complete an interactive exercise that will take them on a historical tour of the stock market from 1920 until just after WWII. Students will learn the difference between a buy and hold vs market timing strategy as it relates to investing. Part III continues this interactive exercise by taking the student on a historical stock journey beginning slightly after WWII and proceeding through the end of the year 2000.

Concepts

investing, markets

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Additional Tags

council for economic education, decision making, econedlink: here's your chance to make millions in the stock market (part 2), economic efficiency, price, stock market

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional