Students will create a stock market portfolio and keep track of the records over a two week period. During the process, students will keep track of the stock and the price per share for each day. At the end of the two week time frame, students will create a powerpoint presentation and an audio recording discussing their portfolio in how they started and how their stocks ended at the end, what they learned about investing in the stock market (e.g. trends), and how they would potentially use the information when they get older.

In this lesson, students demonstrate how investments in savings accounts and stocks function.

In this Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity, students build spreadsheets to study the effect of compound interest on accounts into which they deposit savings. They build a spreadsheet to examine the two basic cases: the future value of a single deposit, and the future value of an annuity. In both, they use the mathematical equation for future value to do the calculation, not the buiilt-in Excel function. The intention is for the students to see and work with the underlying mathematics. They apply their spreadsheets to a variety of problems, including the following question: For a given interest rate, how much does one need to deposit every year to accumulate two million dollars in the account at the time of retirement?

This lesson will help students to understand the terms that are associated with the New York Stock Exchange. It will also help students to read a stock market report found in any major newspaper or online.

In this activity, students read an article and answer a series of questions. The article explains how stocks and bonds can help companies grow, entrpeneurs start busineeses, and governments fund public projects.

In this activity, students read an article and answer a series of questions. The article explains the efficient market hypothesis and how it might influence personal investment decisions.

For this activity, students select stocks that they know about and see what they can discover about the stocks as they track them over 3-5 days. Students respond to questions about the stocks they've selected.

For this activity, students learn about the term 'random walk' and list stocks (from a newspaper) in a table. Students calculate the return from investing $10,000 in each of the six stocks.

This video emphasizes the importance of developing the saving habit early. It explains the importance of establishing an emergency fund first and then moving on to making investments. Wealth Creation for All suggests investing in the capital markets to meet financial goals. The video explains the concept of risk vs. return, what capital markets are and how we all can participate in them.