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7th
Grade Stock Market Project
Students
will learn how to invest in corporate stocks by creating investment
"portfolios." Step-by-step instructions will enable students to
develop worksheets that track their portfolio's performance over a specified
time period and report the results to the class.
1.
To
introduce students to the stock market
2.
To
use an Excel template that calculates profit (or loss) for any given investment
3.
To
create line graphs representing stock performance
4.
To
use PowerPoint to present results to the class
In this activity, you will invest $2,000 in three (3) different companies and then track the stock market price of those companies over a period of time.
1.
What
are two companies that you think would be good companies to invest in?
2.
How
would you know how profitable a company has been in the past and how good an
investment it would be for the future?
WHAT TO DO: Choose three (3) companies
in which you think you would like to invest. Using a search engine such as
Lycos or Yahoo, or the Microsoft Investor web site access each company's Web
site in order to gather as much background information as possible about each
company, including:
·
Type
of company
·
Number
of years in business
·
Summary
of what the company does
·
Profits
for prior 1, 2, 5, 10 year periods
·
Find
out the current selling price per share for each company's stock.
·
Decide
how many shares of stock you want to buy in each company keeping in mind that
you have only $2,000 to invest.
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Investing
for Kids http://tqd.advanced.org/3096
·
StockMaster http://www.stockmaster.com
·
Microsoft
Investor http://www.investor.msn.com
Record
the company Symbol (the unique symbol assigned to a NASDAQ security) and the
name of the particular Stock Exchange that lists the stock, an Initial
Investment, and the Daily Market Value each Friday for the next 12 weeks on the
attached worksheet.
More
details will be given later…
Mrs.
Johnson