T3: The Stock Market Game
The Stock Market Game is an online education program used in thousands of classrooms nationwide to help teach math, social studies, business, economics, & language arts while focusing on the importance of long-term savings and investment. Students in grades 4 through 12 participate in teams and manage a simulated investment portfolio during the school year.
There are two game periods that last 10-weeks each. The first session starts October 8, 2007. The second session begins February 25, 2008. Grade and subject-specific curriculum guides, lesson plans, and newsletters are provided for classroom instruction. Lessons topics include:
- What is a Company?
- What is a Stock?
- Identifying Ticker Symbols and Interpreting Stock Quotes
- What is Risk?
- How Does Money Grow Over Time?
- Dividends & Earnings
- What is an Exchange/Markets?
- What is Diversification?
- What is a Mutual Fund?
- What Causes Stock Prices to Change?
- Buy, Sell or Hold?
- How Successful Was My Investment Strategy?
For more information please contact Christopher Anderson at (810) 252-4474 or chris.smgmi@yahoo.com.