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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.

Stock Market Game; Pre and Post Tests

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.

Personal Finance Challenge

The Personal Finance Challenge (PFC) is an Oregon competition and serves as the State qualifier for the nationwide competition, the National Personal Finance Challenge (NPFC).

The competition offers high school students the opportunity to build and demonstrate their knowledge in the concepts of good Personal Finance habits.

The first round is the local competition. Schools form student teams of 3 – 4 students to compete in a fun online 30-question challenge. There are two qualifying windows – teams may only compete in one of the qualifiers:

Fall Qualifier: January 2026

Spring Qualifier: March 2026

The four highest-scoring teams will be invited to the state finals in April. The state finals are in person and use a College Bowl format (oral contest). Teams should only attend the State Finals round if they are able to represent Oregon in the National Finals the last weekend of May.

OCEE will sponsor travel for the First Place team to and from the National competition. CEE sponsors all costs at the Finals competition.

The Oregon State Champions will proceed to the National competition (held in person), where teams use their knowledge to create a financial plan for a fictitious family scenario. The top 16 finishing teams in the National Finals will advance to compete for the national championship title in a Quiz Bowl.

Topics covered include;

Earning Income
- How it’s generated and how factors such as taxes, interest rates, and inflation impact income.

Spending
- Buying goods and services by examining personal budgets, expenses, and income.

Saving
- Analyzing compound interest and financial institutions and services.

Managing Credit
- Credit reports, credit scores, and decision-making through consumer credit.

Investing
- Various investment instruments, including stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Students will also understand the concepts of risk and return and time horizon.

Managing Risk
- Different types of insurance and vigilance against common scams and identity theft.

How to prepare for the PFC;
- We strongly suggest going to this website; https://www.councilforeconed.org/programs/for-students/national-personal-finance-challenge/to prepare for the PFC.

Registering for the PFC:
- If you are interested in participating, registration opens January 1, 2026. Go to; https://www.councilforeconed.org/programs/for-students/national-personal-finance-challenge/to register (and scroll down).

For more information about Personal Finance Challenge contact OCEE at; contact@econoregon.org.