Title: Bulls and Bears (Investing in the Stock Market)

Grade Level(s): 9-12

Subjects: Family and Consumer Science (FACS), Technology, Business Math, English

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will be able to describe investment terminology and the differences between stocks and bond
• Students will be able to identify the kinds of organizations that issue bonds
• Students will be able to describe the use of various stock price averages

• 4 – 5 days (45minute classes)

• Stock market reports in daily newspaper

• Computer with access to the Internet Explorer or Netscape
• Excel software

• Students will have to be taught how to read the stock market reports from the newspaper
• Teachers need to locate and make arrangements for a local stock broker to visit
• Teachers need to do extensive research on current market events for the stock market

• Discuss terms related to investment strategies of stocks and bonds
• Discuss how to read stock market reports and how to use various stock price averages
• Students will use the Internet or the daily newspaper to find the latest stock prices, select three stocks, write an explanation of what each one has done over the last six weeks, report to be collected for a graded activity every two weeks
• Given $10,000.00 students will chose stocks of their choice and chart the progress with line graphs for 6 weeks, print every two weeks for a graded assignment activity

• Lesson may be adapted according to the student’s IEP
• Teacher will provide stock market data from the daily newspaper for use if network is down

• Students will write a short paper explaining how and why they chose the stocks they purchased with the allotted $10,000.00

• Completion of assigned activities
• Completion of line graph depicting progress of chosen stocks
• Satisfactory score on stock market vocabulary

Family and Consumer Science (Adult Roles and Functions)

• Adult Financial Goals, Values, and Concerns 2.11,
• Financial Resource Management 2.13,
• Managing Risk 2.14
• Impact of individual and family financial management practices on society 2.15

• Calculating interest and maturity value 1.1.9
• Different types of stocks available 1.1.27
• Computing interest and annual yield 1.1.28

• Vocabulary 9.34, 9.35

Family and Consumer Science

• Manages money effectively
• Makes effective use of basic life skills
• Sets and manages goals

• Demonstrates competence in the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing

• Business/Marketing (Finance/Accounting, Management/Marketing)
• Human Services (Personal & Family Services)

• Bonnice – Developing Consumer Attitudes, Cinncinnati: South-Western Publishing Co, 1986, Chapter 8
• Maedke – Consumer Education, Encinco, California: Glencoe Publishing Co., 1984, Chapter 4
• Stockbroker (local or on internet)
• What every investor should know
• Weidner Investments
• Prudential Securities – Investments and Investing

                                      Cameron High School
                                      61 Maple Avenue
                                      Cameron, WV 26033