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Section 3—Investments
Title of Lesson/Subject: Reading the Stock Market Table
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Contact Information
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Time Allotment:
Two—50 Minute Periods
Grade Level:
9th Grade Life Skills Class
ND Standards Competencies:
Key Economic Concepts:
Brief Description:
Learner Objectives:
The student will:
ƒ Be able to read a Stock Market Table in the Financial
Section in a daily newspaper.
ƒ Be able to interpret the information on Stock Prices
in the Financial Section in a daily newspaper.
ƒ Be able to compare a stock for two days to see how
the Stock Market Table works.
Introduction:
Materials Needed:
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Day 2
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How to Read the Stock Table—Stock Market Game.
Page 65 made into transparency
Copy page 68—Copy for each student on Reading a
Stock Page
Today’s Newspapers—Several different papers, if
possible, with the Financial Page that has the Stock
quotes in them so students can compare different
layouts
Overhead Projector
Copy of Page 69 of Stock Market Game for each
student
Set of today’s newspapers to use with the class with
the Financial Page
Page 65 Transparency
Audio/Visual Equipment Needed:
Lesson Outline:
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Ask students how many have seen a page with little
print and a lot of numbers in the newspaper that they
do not understand.
Ask if anyone knows what that page in the
newspaper might be and what one would use it for.
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Day 2
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Resources:
If no answers, then go on to explain what the
Financial Page is and continue with P 65 on How to
Read the Stock Table.
Explain that some papers do not print all of the
information that we are going over here. Some use a
shortened version with just the minimum information
needed to know how a stock did that day before.
Hand out P68-Reading a Stock Page and go over in
class with the answers.
Have students look at the Stock Market page in the
newspaper and pick out one stock and write down all
of the information that is in the paper on that stock.
Ask them what one stock would cost. That is the
close price of the day.
Then tell them that most brokers (people who buy
and sell shares of stocks) require you to buy stocks in
increments of 100 shares. Have them figure out what
it would cost to buy 100 shares.
Share some answers in class.
Review information from the day before.
Ask if anyone has question over the information that
was presented the day before.
Hand out today’s stock market page and have the
student’s see how their chosen stock did.
Discuss the information in class.
Some will find that their stock went up. Some will
find that it stayed the same, and some will find that
they lost money.
Explain that this will happen. The market depends
on what is happening in the world, in the USA and
also what is occurring in the business sector.
Remind them that investing in the stock market has a
certain amount of risk. You can make money with
your money, but you can also loose money.
Remind them also that many people buy stocks and
keep them for awhile because each time you buy and
sell it cost you money that is used to make the
business transaction.
Hand out Page 69/70-The Scavenger Hunt-Stock
Market Game. Do not do #8 on page 70.
Go over answers in class.
Learning from the Stock Market, 1997, National Council on
Economic Education, Pages 62-70
Activities:
Application/Assignment:
Evaluation Plan:
Use the assessment on Page 64 of the Stock Market Game to
see if they can interpret the information that was being taught
the past two class periods.