High Roller

Teacher determines time frame for the unit. Then students get into teams of 3-5 students with a hypothetical $100,000 to spend on shares of stock. Before hand and during the lesson students should research companies that are in the stock market. Using the internet and the newspaper, students create a stock portfolio and create charts of how each stock is doing. Teams should record daily if shares are going up or down and by how much. Students are to discuss if they should buy or sell their stocks and if so how many shares. If students and teachers have access to the $25.00 per team and the internet this can be done using The Stock Market Game on line. Teams should discuss what to buy and sell. The teacher would introduce concepts such as ratio, interest, loans, economics, shorts sells, stock trades and many other related terms. Students would use the video equipment to create news casts of how the stock market is currently doing, how the companies they invested in are doing and to present research. Assesments are done by observations, through multi media rubrics and teacher made tests.