Taking+Stock

media type="custom" key="19226088" Teacher: Stacey Looney/ Grade 8
 * Project:1/Public Audience || CEO of a company; Financial Analyst; Stockbroker; entrepenuer; small business owners ||
 * Project Name & Source: || Taking Stock ||
 * Project Idea || Students will get a better understanding of how stockbrokers and financial analysts track stock performance to determine what stocks to buy by collecting data about a specific company they have selected. ||
 * General Content || Mathematics- they will use formulas to analyze the data to decide how to organize and display results in graphs and spreadsheets. ||
 * Driving Question || How can we as stockbrokers and financial analysts determine what stocks to buy and what do they investigate when looking at a company? ||
 * Major Products || prezi; calculator; powerpoint; Microsoft excel/spreadsheets; graphs; ||

to successfully complete major products and presentations  ||||  ** Scaffolding / Materials / Lessons to be Provided ** by the project teacher, other teachers, experts, mentors, community members  || Check graphs for calculations, accuracy of graphs and spreadsheets, and organization. ||
 * Project Teaching and Learning Guide  ||
 * ** Project: ** ||
 * ** Major Product(s) and Presentation ** students need to complete  ||||  ** Knowledge and Skills Needed by Students **
 * ** Major Product(s) and Presentation ** students need to complete  ||||  ** Knowledge and Skills Needed by Students **
 * Prezi/presentation medium || What are stocks? What is a stockbroker/financial analyst and what do they do? |||| è  || lesson presentation; video; ||
 * ^  || Select a company to research ||||  è  || Research/google history of the company and their management practices to include their company symbol; Gather information about it's revenue and profits. Investigate requirements of New York Stock Exchange. ||
 * || Get familiar with the stock page (newspaper/internet) |||| è  || Define headings for each column. Find closing price. What is the highest price for that stock during last year? ||
 * ^  || Study the historical performance of the stock ||||  è  || Track a stock's performance to predict it's future potential during previous years. ||
 * || Create Spreadsheet |||| è  || Display high and low price for the year and earnings per share. Repeat the process over a 10 year period. Include a row on the spreadsheet that determines the average of each column. ||
 * ^  || Student Scenerio/keep track of daily stock/sell stock/prepare graph ||||  è  || Suppose you have $5000 to invest in the stock selected. The purchase price will include the price of the stock plus a fee of $19.95. How many shares of stock can you buy? Keep track of the stock daily. Did the stock close higher than the day before? Did you make a profit or loss? Explain. ||
 * Summary/Reflect/Revise || Students check each others work/collaboration skills |||| è  || Complete the project by summarizing what you have learned. Is the stock you picked a good one? Would you recommend this stock? Explain.