Stock Market Simulation

What's included

• Teacher guide with two pacing options (one-week intensive or once a week over a grading period), materials and differentiation (support, on level, challenge)
• Running the game: the weekly 5-step routine, teacher tips and what happens each week
• Standards page (Common Core math + Jump$tart Investing) and contents
• 3 pages of guided notes with word banks: stocks, shares and dividends; risk, return and diversification; long-term investing, hot tips and fees
• Game rules with a worked example of every calculation
• Meet the Market: 9 fictional companies in 9 different industries, an index fund and a savings account
• Trading Math Warm-Up (10 problems)
• My Opening Plan, Transaction Log, Holdings Tracker and Weekly Scoreboard with a graph and benchmarks (copy extra pages for students who trade a lot)
• 8 weekly news cards that explain every big price move
• 8 Market Update slips with simulated prices (clearly labeled, not real market data)
• Mid-Game Check with a sample portfolio to analyze
• Gains, Losses & Percent Return: a 10-investment table + 4 real trades from the game
• Diversification Lab: the same $10,000 invested four different ways, with a graph
• Hot Tips & Fees: a hype-and-crash case study plus fee math
• Vocabulary sort (24 cards) + recording sheet
• End of Game: What If? comparing the index fund, savings and every single stock
• Reflection + exit ticket, a 12-question quiz and a 20-point rubric
• Teacher master price board and complete answer keys with every calculation shown, plus sample answers for open questions