Stock Market Simulation Unit
Objective:  Students will experience life on the stock market.  First students will learn about corporations,  i.e. conglomerates and mergers.  Students will then learn how to read stock quotes.  Students will then understand how good news or bad news affects the stock market.  Lastly students will create a fake stock portfolio, follow it for a couple weeks and then write a report over it.
Standards/Benchmarks:
  E 4.1.3- Personal finance strategy
  E 4.1.4- Key components of personal finance
  E 4.1.5- Personal decisions
Vocabulary:  Use vocab sheet to complete:
Lectures:
Stock market crash PowerPoint
Assignments:
Who own's what and stock quotes
Reading and calculating stock quotes
Good news and bad news
Projects:
Reflective Paper
Instructions to Stock Market Simulation
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