The Stock Market
Process Central
To All Quest Team Specialists:
Read all information on every page.
Assemble your team.
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Phase 1: Sharpen Your Skills
First your team must become knowledgable about the history of the Stock Market. You must prove that you will be capable of accomplishing the monumental task you've been chosen to complete.
1. PRINT THIS PAGE, then READ and complete Step 2 below.
2. Report to Shareholder Training Camp & complete Phase 2
and Phase 3.
3. Discover the identities of the people who began the stock exchange on Wall Street.
You've just completed Phase 1. Congratulations!
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Shareholder Training Camp
Phase 2: Do Your Research!
4. It's time to reveal the mysteries of The Stock Market.
As a team, gather at one computer workstation.
Select one teammember to read aloud the following article titled "The Beginnings".
Note: You may have to scroll down to see the main article.
>Locate and record the names of the men whose work made a great impact on the early economic community in America.
>Identify the source of the following quote:
“ We the Subscribers, Brokers for the Purchase and Sale of the Public Stock, do hereby solemnly promise and pledge ourselves to each other, that we will not buy or sell from this day for any person whatsoever, any kind of Public Stock, at least than one quarter of one percent Commission on the Specie value and that we will give preference to each other in our Negotiations. In Testimony whereof we have set our hands this 17th day of May at New York, 1792."
>When, where, and how did people first trade shares of ownership?
>What is cuneiform?
Every teammember will WRITE your answers to these questions and save them in your notebooks/folders.
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Mini-task:
http://upennmuseum.com/cuneiform.cgi
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Assign each teammember one of the articles from the websites below. Each teammember will:
>Use a computer workstation to read their assigned article.
>Take Notes - write the most important idea from each paragraph in your assigned article.
After each teammember completes their article, the team will compare notes, select key ideas, and write a new article that describes the creation of the stock market in America. Use Microsoft Word for this task. Make copies for team.
Save your article in your notebook/folder!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street
http://www.hermes-press.com/wshist1.htm http://www.atozinvestments.com/stockmarkethistory.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_exchange
Write a 5 sentence summary of your discoveries in your Stock Market Journal.
How does this new information change what you know about the Stock Market?
Homework: Create a picture book that explains the history of The Stock Market. Make sure you include the new vocabulary you have learned. Your picture book must answer the following questions:
Are The Stock Market and Wall Street the same thing?
Where is Wall Street and how was it named?
Who was Leonard Bleecker?
How much did it cost in 1792 to become a member of the exchange? How much does it cost now?
What technology was available to stock brokers in the 18th century?
Click on this link if you want to read more about Stock Market History. http://www.stockmarketinvestinginfo.com/smi_history.html
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Phase 3: Understanding Investing
6. All Teams assemble to share their findings up to this point.
Pay close attention. Here is more important information you will need to complete your assignment and discover the secret to becoming wealthy!
Your team will need to use computer workstations to explore a website that will explain how people, (even kids) can invest in the Stock Market. This website is divided into 6 pages that you will navigate by clicking the arrow at the bottom of each page. Each team member should:
>TAKE ONE OF THE FIRST FIVE PAGES
>TAKE NOTES on important ideas and new vocabulary.
>REPORT back to your team and share your findings.
http://library.thinkquest.org/3096/beginner.htm
Create a slideshow using Microsoft PowerPoint that includes stock trader vocabulary,and the questions with answers you think a beginning investor would ask and would want to know. Think about the questions you had before you began learning about trading stocks, and the words you didn't know the meaning of.
You may want to use the link to the Stock Market Trivia website you visited during Phase 2, Task 4 of your training:
Remember, you want to make your slideshow entertaining, so that viewers will become more knowlegable and become interested in investing in the Stock Market.
After each team has the opportunity to make their report (share your slideshows), you will listen to your teacher read "Understanding the Stock Market" on the following webpage:
http://www.younginvestor.com/kids/investIt/articleUnderstandStockMarket.asp
After you discuss this article with your teacher, use your computer workstations to explore the links listed under each Menu item. Be sure to click on EACH item on the left side menu, especially PLAY IT!
*Your commander (teacher)will explain your next team task,
Phase 4, during this briefing.
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Phase 4: The Stock Market Game 
6. Your team is about to take on a task that requires your best research skills and cooperation with analysts and brokers all over the world (Yes, literally).
Teams assemble at your computer workstation. Click on the Rich Man below to go to The Georgia Council on Economic Education website to make some history of your own as you and your teammates buy and trade on the market. Good luck, and happy trading!