Stock Market Game Culminating Activity

So, what have we learned from this stock market activity? How quickly we can lose thousands of dollars? What else?

You and your team will put together a PowerPoint presentation showing the rest of the class what you did and what you learned from it. You will bring it to me on a disk or email it to Mary_D_Wagner@mcpsmd.org.

In your PowerPoint presentation, you must include the answers to the following questions (not necessarily in this order):

• What is buying long? When would you want to do this?
• What is selling short? When would you want to do this?
• What did you do throughout the two months of the game? Use details about specific stocks – what did you buy and what happened to it? Then what did you do next?
• Why did you make each of the decisions you made? Again, use details about specific stocks: Why did you buy each stock? Was it a good idea? Why or why not?
• What did you learn from this experience, overall?
• If you could play again next year, what would you do the same and why? What would you do differently and why?

Your PowerPoint presentation should be:

• Colorful
• Easy to read (not too many words on each slide)
• Created by all the members of your team
• Presented in 5-10 minutes (this means you should practice it before you do it in front of the class to make sure it is not too short or too long)

Your PowerPoint presentation MAY include the following (but your grade will not be lowered if they are not present):

• Humor
• Cute/funny graphics (use clip art or Google’s image search)

Your presentations are due to me on Wednesday, April 26 and will be presented to the class on Friday, April 28.

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