Using the Stock Market with Your Students


Grades 5-10

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Open your students up to the world of finance. Give the stock market a try.

Do a tutorial about the Stock Market. (answer key)
Look at vocabulary necessary to "make sense" of the market.
Learn to read the stock market section of the newspaper.
Understand diversification.
Corporate Research worksheet
Using a Stock Market simulation on the computer
Class assignments:

Using the market page of your newspaper
(answers will vary depending on the day of use.)

Using the Internet to find ticker or the company name
(answer key)

Finding percent of increase or decrease
(answer key)

Doing a Stock Market simulation by hand

Stock Transaction Slip

Company Record Sheet

Value of the Portfolio