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 * The Stock Market Game**

**April 12, 2010** Click on your group wiki page and complete the following assignment. You are a stockbrocker – someone who sells stocks for a living A client approached you about investing some money. He wants to know if he would be better off investing in stocks or mutual funds. What are 5 questions you will ask this client before giving him/her advice?

Students in 8th grade enrichment class work in teams to create and manage a virtual investment portfolio of real world stocks and murtual funds. Teams manage their investments by deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold funds and stocks they have created. Let's play the Stock Market Game Step 2 **Question** : You are given a check for $100,000. Think about and discuss what you would do with it with your group members. **Topics for Discussion** : What do you really want to do with the money? What are the group priorities? Do you all have the same ideas about what to do with the money? Did you divide the sum or spend it as a group? Why was it difficult to spend the money as a group? What did you do to reach agreement? Step 3 Share your thoughts: I have created a Google doc for each team. Google docs allows each of you to work on the same document at the same time. Each of you needs to click this link Google docs Find the document with your team name and Describe what you talked about in Step 2. Each team member needs to pick a piece of this assignment to work on. For example: one team member may write about how you decided to spend the money. One team member may choose to write about what it was like to come to a decision as a group. This essay needs be at least 3 paragraphs consisting of no less than 5-7 sentences.
 * Step 1**
 * 1) Each team will select a name for their group
 * 2) Each team will create a team wiki page to record and reflect their progress.
 * 3) Click New Page/Page Name = Your Team Name/Enter tags that relate to the game and then click create
 * 4) At the top of the page type your Team Name and include the first name of everyone on your team.
 * 5) Center and Bold these as a title and then hit the enter key two times. Add a color if you like.
 * 6) Insert an image that represents the stock market
 * 7) Click the horizontal line tool on the menu bar
 * 8) Add the title If I had $100,000
 * 9) Save your page

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