Year-Long Stock Market Challenge

Background: Using www.stockmarketgame.org, every workshop attendee shall compete with their peers in learning about the stock market:

Purpose: To enhance students’ knowledge of the stock market and basic economics
Objective: To earn the most amount of money in a certain period of time.

Steps:

1. Create a teacher account on the website.
2. Register each student into the teacher’s account.
3. Give each student $100,000 in virtual money and set a deadline for the duration of the contest. (set up your own for 3 months if possible else use the deadline set by the app)
4. Encourage students to invest in whatever stocks/bonds/funds they want to
5. At the midway point, each participant should present their current situation and also explain their reasoning behind choosing the stocks they did and also a little bit of what they learned from it. (Presentations should be around 5 minutes)
   1. What the presentation should cover:
      • Preface into their portfolio and brief description of stocks they have invested in.
      • Reasoning behind why they invested in those specific companies using basic terminology from economics
      • Also talk about which sites they used to conduct market research - which resources were most helpful and which ones were least helpful
      • Analyze their performance and talk about what they learned
        • Also talk about their thought process behind the decisions they made - the research just presents findings, but the investor must make the decision based on an educated prediction, so explain those predictions.
        • Cite the vision you see for the stocks you have invested in
      • Brief description of plan for remaining period
6. At the end of the simulation have them do the same presentation again but this time more focused on what they learned. (Presentations should be around 5 minutes)
   1. What the presentation should cover:
      • Preface into their portfolio and brief description of stocks they have invested in. Reasoning behind why they invested in those specific companies using basic terminology from economics
      • Also talk about which sites they used to conduct market research - which resources were most helpful and which ones were least helpful
      • Analyze their performance and talk about what they learned
        1. Also talk about their thought process behind the decisions they made - the research just presents findings, but the investor must make the decision based on an educated prediction, so explain those predictions.
        2. Cite the vision you see for the stocks you have invested in

Brief description of plan for remaining period

Supplemental Activities: As an extra activity, allow students to pool their stocks together as a class and work as a group to make decisions on what to invest in.

Source List: Find basic, free stock market courses (CrashCourse, Coursera, Udemy, etc.) SecondGen Video Series - (Coming Soon)

External Resource Section: Will add once presentations are finished