Correlation Between Delaware Economics
Standards and Instructional Materials
from the National Council on Economic Education
and the Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education
Two teacher resource manuals were reviewed for this study: The Stock Market Game™ Guide from the Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. and Learning From the Market from the National Council on Economic Education. Both of these manuals can either be purchased or borrowed from the Center.
The chart below lists the lessons in the order they are presented in each manual. First the content and vocabulary of the lesson for relating the lesson to a Delaware Economics Standard was considered. Secondly the difficulty of the reading level and mathematical calculations for the grade level was considered. An E means that it is appropriate for grades 4-5, M for grades 6-8, and H for grades 9-12.
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THE STOCK MARKET GAME GUIDE |
Lesson Type | Level | Standard | Description/Miscellaneous |
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UNIT 1: |
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1. What Is A Stock? |
Read/Write |
E |
E1 |
High Interest Level -- Cookies Letter Writing |
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2. How To Trade A Stock |
Play/Reading |
M |
E1 |
Play about how the Stock Market works |
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3. Understanding Stock Tables |
Handout/Hunt |
E/M/H |
E1 |
Students evaluate trends in the Stock Market |
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4. Finding Stocks |
Handout/Hunt |
E/M/H |
E1 |
Newspaper Activity Opportunity Costs |
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5. Identifying Industries |
Handout |
M |
E2 E4 |
Identify Factors of Market System International Trade |
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UNIT 2: |
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6. Business Organization |
Handout/Chart |
E/M |
E1 |
Pie Charts and Percentages |
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7. A Market Economy |
Simulation |
M |
E2 |
Demonstrates the Circular Flow of Money |
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8. Savings And Investment |
Handout |
M/H |
E2 |
Supplement to lesson 7 Discusses Business Cycles |
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9. Productivity |
Handouts |
M/H |
E1 E2 |
Draws conclusions about Productivity and Economy |
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10.The Market for Stocks |
Handouts |
E/M/H |
E1 E2 |
Exchange and how company policies affect Economy |
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UNIT 3: |
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11. Profit and Reward |
Handouts |
M/H |
E2 E3 |
How capital investment provides economic growth |
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12. Profit and Stocks |
Handouts |
E/M |
E1 |
Predicting trends |
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13. Demand and Supply |
Simulation |
E/M |
E1 |
Finding Equilibrium |
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14. Why Stock Prices Change |
Handouts |
M |
E1 E2 |
Refers to effects of International Trade on US market |
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UNIT 4: |
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15. The Uses of Profit |
Handouts |
H |
E2 |
Finding trends in business practices/PE Ratio, % Profit,Yields … |
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16. Deciding How to Save |
Handouts |
M |
E2 |
Analyzes the role of banking in the economy |
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17. The Rewards of Saving |
Handouts |
H |
E2 |
Cause and Effects of Inflation upon the economy |
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18. The Long Arm of the Dow |
Handouts |
H |
E2 |
Analyzes the difference between long and short term investment |
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LEARNING FROM THE MARKET |
Lesson Type |
Level |
Standards |
Description |
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UNIT I: |
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1. Why Study the Stock Market? |
Activity |
M/H |
E2 |
True/False Classroom Competition on Stock Market |
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2. What Is a Corporation? |
Activity |
E/M |
E2 |
Describes types and structures of Businesses |
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3. What Is a Stock? Or, Who Owns McDonalds? |
Read/Write |
E |
E1 |
High Interest Level -- Cookies Letter Writing |
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4. What Are Markets? |
Handout |
E |
E1 |
How consumers and producers make economic choices |
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5. Showtime on Wall Street |
Play/Reading |
M |
E1 |
Play about how the Stock Market works |
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6. How Are Stock Prices Determined? |
Simulation |
E/M |
E1 |
Finding Equilibrium |
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7. How to Read the Stock Tables |
Handout/Hunt |
E/M/H |
E1 |
Newspaper Activity Opportunity Costs |
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8. How Do You Make or Lose Money in the Stock Market? |
Handouts |
M/H |
Record Keeping Activity ---- 1/8 values no longer used |
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9. Getting Fancy: The Bulls, the Bears, and the Pigs! |
Play/Activity |
M/H |
Play about buying and selling strategies (cover/short/margin) |
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UNIT II: |
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10. Are Stock Markets Only for the Wealthy? |
Handouts |
E |
E2 |
Roles of Stock Market as investment tool |
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11. Getting Rich is Child's Play -- The News About Compound Interest |
Handouts |
H |
E2 |
Analyze how differences in age, amounts and savings method will result in different outcomes. |
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12. All Savings Choices Involve Risk: Grandma's Gift |
Handouts |
E |
E2 |
Illustrates the benefits and costs of saving and investing methods |
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13. Some Risks Are Greater than Others |
Handouts |
M |
E1 E2 |
Strategies for reducing investment risks |
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14. How to Choose a Stock |
Handouts |
H |
E2 |
Introduction to Economic Cycles Newspaper Hunt |
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15. Building a Stock Portfolio |
Handouts |
H |
E1 E2 |
Investment in Education as a way to influence Human Capital |
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UNIT III: |
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16. Playing Along with the Averages |
Handouts |
M |
E1 |
How demand and supply change price Definitions of various mkts |
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17. The Market-Go-Round |
Handouts |
M |
E2 |
Circular Flow of Money |
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18. I've Got the Workin' in the Chalk-Mark Factory, Increasing My Productivity Blues |
Role Playing |
M |
E3 |
Productivity in a Market System How Production and Technology are related |
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19. How Do Saving and Investing Affect Economic Growth? |
Handouts |
E |
E3 |
How different countries resources result in different levels of productivity |
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UNIT IV: |
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20. How Do Businesses Obtain Financing? |
Handouts |
H |
E2 |
Types of business functions |
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21. How to Read an Annual Report |
Handouts |
M/H |
E1 |
Terminology of Annual Reports, Uses McDonalds as case study |
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22. Researching a Business |
Handouts |
H |
E2 |
Calculating and Interpreting stock ratios and profits, etc |
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UNIT V: |
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23. Business Cycles and the Stock Market |
Visuals |
H |
E2 |
How business cycles and forecasting affect economies |
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24. How Do Domestic and International Events Influence the Buying and Selling of Stocks? |
Handouts |
M |
E1 E2 E4 |
Refers to effects of government policies on international trade |