Download Celebdaq Academy Lesson Plan

Welcome to Celebdaq bbc.co.uk/celebdaq !
Introductory Lesson:
The Basics of How to Play
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Your Mission
To make as much money as you
can…
by buying and selling ‘shares’ in
celebrities
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Shares
• A share is a portion of stock that a company, or in the
case of Celebdaq: a Celebrity, is divided.
• A company/celebrity can be divided into millions of
shares which are sold to many investors.
• If the company/celebrity is successful the investors
get a share of the profits (a dividend) and their shares
will go up in value
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What happens
• Every day BBC editors count the amount of press
coverage (in column inches) that the each celebrity
gets
• On Friday the shares you own pay out a ‘dividend’. The
more press coverage a celeb gets, the bigger the
dividend
• Just like in the real world, the more people want
(demand) the share the higher its price becomes
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Investment
•
Investing means to spend money now in
order to gain a financial return later
•
Any money made from an investment is
called a return. The bigger the return the
better!
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Investment
• There are two ways to make a return:
1. Day trading: trading shares on a daily basis for profit, rather
than holding them for dividends
2. Dividends: That part of a company's/celebrity’s profits
distributed to shareholders, usually expressed in pounds per
share
3. Play the Flash games in the Interactive Zone to get your head
around day trading and dividends.
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How does Celebdaq work?
• Each player receives £10,000 to spend
(Celebdaq £ not real money!)
• The player picks which celebrity shares they
want to buy and the amount of shares
• The player buys and sells shares in order to
maximise their return
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Top Tips
To do well here are some tips that might help:
•
Read the Daq Diary for lists of celeb events to watch out for in
the coming week
•
Dividends and capital gains are closely related. When a
celebrity’s dividend payout increases, they become more
attractive (financially!), demand for them increases, and their
price goes up.
•
Demand for a celebrity can increase because people expect a
story to break. The story does not actually have to break for the
price to go up.
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Go To It!
The best way to learn is to play the game so
create your profile and start investing
your Celebdaq pounds!
Head to the Celebdaq site and get started:
bbc.co.uk/celebdaq
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