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Date Posted: 00:38:10 10/07/02 Mon http://www.webhand.com/lagrande/schools/lessonplans/stockmarket.html ------------------------------------------------------------ Technology Integrated Lesson Plan ------------------------------------------------------------ More Lessons ------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Using a spreadsheet and the Internet to learn about stock market performance. ------------------------------------------------------------ Curricular Area: Math--Basic math Level: Secondary ------------------------------------------------------------ Student Outcomes: Students will record the progress weekly of a business of their choice on the stock market, graph those results, research and report on current news and how it pertains to the companies recent performance. ------------------------------------------------------------ Abstract: In this lesson students will use the Internet each week and record what their company’s value is on the stock exchange. Each week they will calculate the percent gain/loss. After ten weeks they will graph these results onto a spreadsheet. Then they will prepare a report using current news articles that reflects their company’s recent performance. ------------------------------------------------------------ Prerequisite Skills: Computer and research skills will be developed as we go. ------------------------------------------------------------ Technology Description: ClarisWorks or similar integrated software available for Mac or PC computer. Access to the Internet. ---------------------------------------------------------- Rationale For Using The Technology: A spreadsheet will look similar to the table the students kept while recording the progress of their stocks. This data will be easily transformed into a line graph of their company’s “ups” and “downs” during the time that we tracked them. The Internet will provide the use of a portfolio which will display all stocks selected with only 15 minutes delay from the values posted at the stock exchange. Each stock has multiple links to explore news and other relevant information. ------------------------------------------------------------ Other Material: A file to store weekly results. ------------------------------------------------------------ Procedure: ------------------------------------------------------------ Week one. Talk about various stocks and make suggestions of some that might be interesting to learn more about. Have students try to think of products they use or are familiar with. Week two. Have students select a stock. Use search features of the Internet to identify and record its current value. Print out a profile of each company for each student’s file. Open a portfolio that will track a collection of stocks. (http://quote.yahoo.com)) Each week that same collection of stocks can be automatically retrieved with current price information and relevant links. Week three through thirteen. Use the Internet to track the current price each week. Students should then calculate the percent change from the original share price. This becomes a math warmup for my class once a week. Week ten. Students will use the news links on the Internet to find information about their stock that may explain its performance during the past ten weeks. Week fourteen. Enter the weekly stock performance into a spreadsheet and make a line graph. Give a report explaining what recent news may have affected the performance of the selected stock the past few months. Evaluation Or Extension Activities: ------------------------------------------------------------ Have students compare their stock’s performance with others in the class. Compare each stock’s performance to other stocks in the same sector. (Sector performance is available on the Internet) Compute the amount of money returned if students had invested $10,000 in their stock. ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.investorwords.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.classicalarchives.com/vivaldi.html ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.cairns.net.au/~sharefin/Markets/Gold3.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ http://ninemsn.com.au/homepage.asp ----------------------------------------------------------- http://www.capitalgold.com/webClient?guid=3048 ----------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cardtechnology.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- ERG Teams Up With Northrop Grumman ----------------------------------------------------------- Australia-based ERG Ltd., which is implementing a pilot smart card system for San Francisco-area transit operators, will compete for a contract to operate a regional chip card system in the Washington, D.C. area. ERG Transit Transit Systems (USA) Inc. says it will team up with systems integrator North Grumman Information Technology, a subsidiary of Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp., to bid on the contract with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. WMATA has issued nearly 300,000 smart cards for paying subway fares and fees at WMATA parking lots. The planned regional customer service center is part of expanding acceptance of the SmarTrip card to more than a dozen other transit operators in northern Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The operator of the customer service center will be responsible for dividing up card revenue among operators, issuing and replacing cards, and blocking lost or stolen cards. A WMATA spokesperson says there are other competitors for the contract, which is to be awarded late this year, but he did not identify them. San Diego-based Cubic Corp. provides the fare gates and smart cards for WMATA. Cubic could not be reached for comment on whether it was bidding on the customer service center contract. ERG operates several transit fare-collection systems around the world, including in Hong Kong, where there are 6 million Octopus smart cards used for paying fares on trains, buses and ferries. ------------------------------------------------------------ ( 2002-10-04 ) -----------------------------------------------------------  [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |