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Stock Market Simulations : Bullish on Engagement, Blogs and Brainy Work

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

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  1. 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

  2. 1. How far back can stock trading be traced in this country? • Industrial Revolution • Civil War • American Revolution

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. EngagementHow do you make a subject engaging if it is not already engaging?

  7. Making it relevant http://tinyurl.com/mlxnjs

  8. Why Save? http://www.econedlink.org/interactives/interest.html

  9. History and Basic Terms PowerPoint slides…

  10. PowerPoint Written Form

  11. PowerPoint Video Format

  12. Follow up questions from the PowerPoint

  13. Video Reinforcement Brainpop.com

  14. Video Reinforcement Bizkids.com

  15. Video Reinforcement commoncraft.com

  16. Investment Options: Stocks or your local bank? http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/popup.php?lesson_number=335&&flash_name=main.swf

  17. Guess the market through charts? http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/popup.php?lesson_number=333&&flash_name=main.swf

  18. Prepare for the test with some drill and practice http://www.quia.com/rr/187669.html

  19. Give a quiz

  20. Videos…

  21. Stock Market 102 Using NYSE website to find company quote data

  22. PowerPoint Slides

  23. Apply what you learned

  24. Another Quia Website Game http://www.quia.com/cb/412117.html

  25. Final Exam over reading a stock quote

  26. You Earned it… an official Crews Stock Broker License

  27. Time to start earning some money!

  28. Make your company Business card By yourself or with another person

  29. Who will be your first customer?

  30. How do you make the stock trades?

  31. http://www.virtualstockexchange.com/

  32. http://www.stocksquest.com/

  33. Collaboration Site http://www.weseed.com

  34. Why Blog?

  35. Time to send home a reminder of how those stocks are doing….

  36. How about a post card?

  37. Who are the real winners in this simulation project?

  38. 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

  39. Survey compared student engagement in regular classes TO Student engagement in the stock market simulation project www.polldaddy.com

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