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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
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Introduction

How do you think you can make it rich? Have you ever thought about investing in the Stock Market? Well, CONGRATULATIONS!!! You and your team have just been given 300 shares of stock by an anonymous donor. What do you do now? The instructions included state that you have to invest the 300 shares, or lose them. Be careful as you make your decisions on which 3 companies you choose to invest 100 shares in each. Talk things over with your team before you make any lone decisions. Good Luck with your investing! Remember choose wisely, make joint decisions. If all goes well, you and your team will be able to PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS!

"Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place."

-Alexander Pope

Dollar signs at sunset

 

References

Wally’s Stock Ticker

URL:  http://www.prongo.com/stock/index.pl

Stock Market Game

 

MoneyInstructor.com

URL:  http://www.moneyinstructor.com/stocks.asp

          Explains what a stock is and about investing

 

The Mint – It Makes Sense

URL:  http://www.themint.org/teachers/thestockmarket_act2.php

URL:  http://www.themint.org/teachers/thestockmarket_act1.php

          Various activities to familiarize yourself with the stock market 

 

Stock Market Portfolio

URL:  http://www.china-ms.u52.k12.me.us/~gperry/smlesson.htm

          Explains the basics of a stock market portfolio

 

SMG - Fractions of a Dollar Conversion Chart

URL:  http://www.china-ms.u52.k12.me.us/~gperry/convert.htm

          Learn how to convert Stock Market Price Fractions to dollars and cents

 

Yahoo! Finance

URL:  http://quote.yahoo.com/

          Stock Newsroom

 

Kid Invest

URL:  http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/securities/begin.html

This is a comprehensive guide to the stock market, investing and money management that specifically designed for young people.

 

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Group

URL:  http://www.nyse.com/

          New York Stock Exchange home page

 

The NASDAQ Stock Market

URL:  http://www.nasdaq.com/

          NASDAQ Stock Market home page

Vintige ticker tape machine

"Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully."

-Scott Alexander

"The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech."

-John Mortimer