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Investing

Investing. Mini-Lesson. OUTCOME: students will be able to identify the advantages/disadvantages of owning stocks. Before: Brainstorm During: simulation (shareholders) after: Reading/Short persuasive essay. invest. What does it mean to invest? What are examples of investments?

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Investing

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  1. Investing • Mini-Lesson

  2. OUTCOME: students will be able to identify the advantages/disadvantages of owning stocks

  3. Before: BrainstormDuring: simulation (shareholders)after: Reading/Short persuasive essay

  4. invest • What does it mean to invest? • What are examples of investments? • After what you learned about yourself yesterday, what might you invest in?

  5. Equity - ownership

  6. A Piece of Stock • ownership in a piece of a company

  7. Going Public • Not a dating status!!! • Privately owned companies sell shares • Hires an investment banker to sell the stock • This sale is called an IPO • These shares can be bought and sold in secondary markets (NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange, DOW) • Stocks are only sold on ONE of the markets.

  8. Groups - household • Each household has INCOME - • payments earned by households for providing resources • Households SAVE some of their income • SAVING is the portion of income not spent on CONSUMPTION (buying things) or TAXES • Households can use some saving to purchase STOCKS • you can purchase stock with money, on MARGIN - or with borrowed money (STOCK MARKET CRASH 1929)

  9. earn stocks • Answer the questions correctly (as a household) to earn shares of stock in THE STOCK KNOWLEDGE COMPANY • Each correct answer is worth 15 shares of stock • Once you own stocks - you are known • INVESTORS or STOCKHOLDERS or SHAREHOLDERS

  10. stock questions • Stocks represent ownership in a corporation. • People who invest in stocks cannot loser their money. • Mark bought 100 shares of Intel stock. Each share sold for $35.50. If no fees were involved, Mark paid $3,550 for the shares. • The price people pay for a stock is called a dividend. • The closing price for a share of Wal-Mart stock was $37.25. This means that the price of the share was $37 and one-quarter of a dollar. One quarter of a dollar is $0.20.

  11. stock questions • People who own stocks are guaranteed a return on the money they have invested in stocks. • The only way stockholders make money is through dividend payments while they own the stock. • One way stockholders make money is by selling their stock for more money than they paid for it. • Stockholders can reduce the risk on their stock investment by diversifying their portfolios. • The New York Stock Exchange is the only place where people can buy and sell stocks.

  12. MRS. K. JOHNSON’S

  13. Questions • If your household answered all the questions correctly, how many shares of stock would you own? • How many shares does your group own? • Of the 150 shares your group could have purchased, what percent does your group in fact own?

  14. Dividends • DIVIDENDS can be earned on some stock (such as these) • if the company makes a profit - they may pay DIVIDENDS to their STOCKHOLDERS • DIVIDENDS for this stock is candy • 1 share = 1/5 a piece of candy • What are your group’s earned DIVIDENDS?

  15. REAL LIFE • How was this simulation different than REAL LIFE?

  16. Overnight Reading • Feb. 2013 New York Times Article • Mar. 2012 Forbes Articles • Investing in Stocks to Get More Return

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