Classroom Series – Table of Contents and Helpful Websites

Chapter / Title / Materials
*Lessons and stock talk from the Teacher Support Center
Most are from Grade 6 Grade 5 (G.5) / Page №
One / What is a Company / *Fact Sheet: The Chocolate Company
*Activity 1: The Chocolate Company Guiding Questions
* (G.5)Fact Sheet: The Benefits of Going Public(What is a Stock)
*(G.5) Activity Sheet: Two Real Candy Companies (What is a Stock)
Two / What is a Stock / *Fact Sheet: What is a Stock?
*Activity 2 What is a Stock? (questions for the Fact sheet)
*Activity 3 Stock Market Calculations
*Activity 4 Speaking of Stocks
Three / Basic Vocabulary / *Stock Talk
Rolling Stock (Private vs Public)
Jack & the Beans Talk (Beta)
Anna & the Banana (Splits and Spinoffs)
Cap Size (Market Cap)
Horatio & the Ratio (P/E ratio)
Sound Investment (Volume)
Four / Mutual Funds / *Stock Talk
Fund Seeker (Difference between stocks & mutual funds)
Funds with Style (domestic stock funds)
Emily & ETF (Explains Exchange Traded Funds)
Fund Time (Mutual Funds vs. ETF’s)
Web address: smgman-mi.org
Five / Risk
Diversification / Risk:
*Stock Talk: Risk and Return
*Activity 1 Conservative, Moderate or Speculative
*Activity 2 How much risk can you stand?
Diversification:
*Activity 1 How Diversified are these portfolios?
10 x 10 (document)
Six / Basic-Company Research / Student Company/Stock research sheet
10 x 10 (document)
What makes a stock price go ↑ or ↓
Web address: See above, Yahoo, Nasdaq etc
Seven / Making trades and tour of portfolio / Take a tour of the student portfolio
Eight / Tracking-my investments / What causes stock prices to change
*Activity 2 Influences on the Market
Buy, Sell or Hold
*Activity 2 Comparing Companies across the same Industry
*What makes a stock price go ↑ or ↓
*10% Rule
Nine / InvestWrite-Essay
Ten / Teacher if you could give me feed-back on “how well” or” how not so well” this worked for you, I would appreciate it.
Websites
www.stockmarketgame.org (login using your username ID and Password)
www.smgman-mi.org (Mr. A’s website)

Helpful Investing website
1)  www.finance.yahoo.com
2)  www.nasdaq.com
3)  https://www.google.com/finance
4)  https://www.thestreet.com/
5)  http://www.barrons.com/stocks-to-watch
6)  http://www.cnbc.com/video-analyst-interviews/