Stock Market Resources

The Basics about investing:

OCEE Created Power Point slides (10 weeks);

Reference Sites:

• The Street.Com: Get stock quotes and watch videos featuring investing tips and business news
• Investopedia: Investopedia contains articles, a dictionary, video clips and tutorials on a variety of investment topics.
• CNN Money: CNN hosts current events and market news.
• NASDAQ: Official site of The NASDAQ Stock Market featuring free stock quotes, and stock market news.
• MarketWatch: Research stocks with a slightly different approach from Yahoo Finance.
• Yahoo Finance: – A ‘must’ for research. This site will give you up-to-date information about each company, their history and company profile.
• Big Charts: This is an interactive online charting service giving free and unlimited access to charts, reports, indicators, and quotes on 22,700 US stocks, mutual funds, and much more.  

For Teachers:

• 10 Excellent beginning mini lessons for the Stock Market Game: This You Tube site has 10 very good, short video clips to help you, the teacher in introducing the Stock Market Game. 
• Ascent of Money: This media-enhanced lesson utilizes clips from the PBS series THE ASCENT OF MONEY. Students will be introduced to the concepts of companies, the ownership shares offered by some companies to increase capital and distribute profits and risks, and the stock markets in which such shares are publicly traded as investments.
• Take this quiz to get an idea as to your "risk tolerance" : This material is from the University of Missouri. This is a very fundamental issue to consider when planning your investment strategy.
• Learning, Earning and Investing: This publication contains 21 lessons that provide active learning experiences to help students master the basics of investing. Lessons cover basics such as the language of financial markets, gathering information on investments, and the nature of financial institutions in the U.S. economy.
• Build Your STAX: This is a free, fun game which teaches participants how to grow wealth over a 20 year period in 20 minutes. We strongly recommend this as a capstone activity to playing the Stock Market Game. 

You will need to go to the Stock Market Game website (click here), and then do a site search for "pre and post tests". Tests are available for elementary, middle and high school aged students.