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Article: Teaching Economics with a Stock Market Simulation
- Article from:
- Social Studies Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright California Council for the Social Studies Fall 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Most high school and middle school students are curious about topics that are consistently in the news, and would like to understand how these events relate to their lives now and in the future. The stock market is in the news daily, on radio, television, in newspapers, and in other print and online news sources. Capturing and applying student curiosity about the stock market can be a great way for teachers to introduce many important economic concepts in the social studies classroom.
Many teachers use the stock market to teach economics by having students participate in a simulation involving the current stock market and its day to day price changes. In a typical simulation, the teacher ...