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Stock Market Simulations : Bullish on Engagement, Blogs and Brainy Work. Rod Hames Crews Middle School, Gwinnett County Public Schools, Lawrenceville, GA Dr. Sherah Carr Assistant Professor, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA. Stock Market Handbook http://tinyurl.com/mlxnjs.
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Stock Market Simulations: Bullish on Engagement, Blogs and Brainy Work Rod HamesCrews Middle School, Gwinnett County Public Schools, Lawrenceville, GA Dr. Sherah Carr Assistant Professor, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA Stock Market Handbook http://tinyurl.com/mlxnjs
1. How far back can stock trading be traced in this country? • Industrial Revolution • Civil War • American Revolution
What is a Bull and Bear Market? • The Markets going up and down • The Markets in a down turn • The Markets in an up turn
Why does the stock market use symbols to represent companies? • It was a way to visually locate companies • It was a way to easily identify companies • It was a way to rank companies
EQ: Why study the stock market? Our economy in many ways revolves around the ups and downs of the stock market Student “get-it” when it comes to the value of learning about stocks It provides an element of competition and excitement It can be easily simulated in the classroom It teaches an endless amount of financial terms and concepts It is just fun to learn about I bet you can think of even more reasons to study this subject
EngagementHow do you make a subject engaging if it is not already engaging?
Making it relevant http://tinyurl.com/mlxnjs
Why Save? http://www.econedlink.org/interactives/interest.html
History and Basic Terms PowerPoint slides…
PowerPoint Written Form
PowerPoint Video Format
Follow up questions from the PowerPoint
Video Reinforcement Brainpop.com
Video Reinforcement Bizkids.com
Video Reinforcement commoncraft.com
Investment Options: Stocks or your local bank? http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/popup.php?lesson_number=335&&flash_name=main.swf
Guess the market through charts? http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/popup.php?lesson_number=333&&flash_name=main.swf
Prepare for the test with some drill and practice http://www.quia.com/rr/187669.html
Stock Market 102 Using NYSE website to find company quote data
Another Quia Website Game http://www.quia.com/cb/412117.html
You Earned it… an official Crews Stock Broker License
Time to start earning some money!
Make your company Business card By yourself or with another person
Who will be your first customer?
How do you make the stock trades?
Collaboration Site http://www.weseed.com
Time to send home a reminder of how those stocks are doing….
Results of student engagement research For more information contact: Sherah B. Carr, Ph.D. Mercer University – Tift College of Education Atlanta, GA Email: carrs@bellsouth.net Web site: www.teachingwithpurpose.com
Survey compared student engagement in regular classes TO Student engagement in the stock market simulation project www.polldaddy.com