Stock Market Unit Plan
Kayla Smalley
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Grade Levels
3rd - 10th, Homeschool
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- Word Document File
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Kayla Smalley
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My students loved using this resource and were engaged throughout the entire unit. Very easy to follow with great activities.
My students loved using this resource! They were engaged in the resource and had no trouble getting started. It didn't take much time to prepare this resource, so it was easy for me to use in a time crunch.
Description
Two week unit!
Day 1-
Have a discussion on how people can make their money grow. Introduce vocab for unit. Hand out Stock Market passage and answer questions about reading.
Day 2- 3
Vocab matching sheet quiz. Discuss dangers of investing in stocks. Hand out Danger in Stocks handout and answer questions.
Discuss stock symbols. Have students search symbols for 4 teacher chosen stocks and check progress of the stocks together across the week. Tell students they have $1000 to invest. They will choose how they want to spread their money out across the four stocks.
Day 4-
Students will chose 3 stocks from a list to buy. They will chart the 5 year progress of the company, which can be found on yahoo finance. (After they search their company, there will be a graph with 5y under it that they can use to see results.)
Day 5-
Graph 5 year results for each company. Talk about how they will check the stock price 6 more times throughout the year.
Day 6- 10-
Students will create their own product to sell to classmates. The goal is to convince classmates to buy stock in their company. They must include a company name, stock symbol, price of stock, product name, jingle, etc.
Day 1-
Have a discussion on how people can make their money grow. Introduce vocab for unit. Hand out Stock Market passage and answer questions about reading.
Day 2- 3
Vocab matching sheet quiz. Discuss dangers of investing in stocks. Hand out Danger in Stocks handout and answer questions.
Discuss stock symbols. Have students search symbols for 4 teacher chosen stocks and check progress of the stocks together across the week. Tell students they have $1000 to invest. They will choose how they want to spread their money out across the four stocks.
Day 4-
Students will chose 3 stocks from a list to buy. They will chart the 5 year progress of the company, which can be found on yahoo finance. (After they search their company, there will be a graph with 5y under it that they can use to see results.)
Day 5-
Graph 5 year results for each company. Talk about how they will check the stock price 6 more times throughout the year.
Day 6- 10-
Students will create their own product to sell to classmates. The goal is to convince classmates to buy stock in their company. They must include a company name, stock symbol, price of stock, product name, jingle, etc.
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Answer Key
Does not apply
Teaching Duration
2 Weeks
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