MST Lesson Plan
Group 2 Part B
Graphing Stock Data
Bloom’s Taxonomy: Application, Comprehension, Analysis
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence(s): Logical-Mathematical
Children’s Literature: A Kid's Guide to Stock Market Investing by Tamra Orr
Book Description: It s never too early or too late to learn about money. Follow a class of
fifth-graders as they figure out the world of finance, from earning, budgeting, and saving to investing
and collecting coins from around the world. Join Sasha and Tim and the rest of their class as they
find out how the world s stock markets work, how they got started, and how everyday people can
invest. Meet the Bull on Wall Street, learn the stock market jargon and codes, and even find out what
to do if the market should take a tumble. Find out how, with your parents permission, you can buy a
few stocks yourself. Even if you don t have the cash to invest in the stock market, you can track a
fantasy investment and see what happens. Learn how to make your money work for you, and take the
mystery out of stock market investing.
Resources:
http://www.vcee.org/pdf/NIE_SMG_supplement.pdf
http://www.nyse.com/pdfs/TG_Mech.pdf
http://www.smgww.org/cgibin/hailogin?ACCOUNTNO=TSC_DEMO&USER_PIN=smgww&SECURITY_STRING=A
ND%20(LOGINTYPEID=12)
NAEP Process Skills:
Scientific Inquiry:
S4.2 Conduct investigations using appropriate tools and techniques
S4.3 Identify patterns in data and/or relate patterns in data to theoretical models;
Technology:
T4.1 Propose or critique solutions to problems, given criteria and scientific constraints;
NYC Scope and Sequence:
Inquiry Skills:
Interpreting data – analyzing data that have been obtained and organized by
determining apparent patterns or relationships in the data.
Creating models – displaying information, using multisensory representations.
Process Skills:
Observe, collect, organize, and appropriately graph data, then accurately interpret results.
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NCTM Math Skills:
Process Standards:
Problem Solving:
Monitor and reflect on the process of mathematical problem solving
Communication:
Communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers,
teachers, and others
Representation:
Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate
mathematical ideas
Content Standards:
Analyze change in various contexts:
Investigate how a change in one variable relates to a change in a second variable;
Data Analysis and Probability:
Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and
display c relevant data to answer them
Collect data using observations, surveys, and experiments;
Represent data using tables and graphs such as line plots, bar graphs, and line
graphs;
ISTE NETs Standards for Literate Students
Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative
products and processes using technology.
a.
Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
b.
Create original works as a means of personal or group expression
Behavioral Objectives:
1. Collect
2. Graph the similarities and differences of two Stocks
3.
Motivation: A bar graph is a great way to understand the relationship between two or more
things. Essentials: title, labeling, x and y axis, Stock refers to a share in a company. You can buy
the stock of an individual company or you can buy stock in a fund. Funds are nothing more than
large volumes of stock of various companies that are packaged together and sold in shares.
Introduce a poem about stocks and bonds as an icebreaker to the lesson.
Stocks and Bonds
(Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)
Bonds, Bonds, Bonds are things That pay an interest rate.
Gradually, Gradually, Gradually, Gradually, Growing while you wait.
Stocks, Stocks, Stocks are things That pay a dividend.
Gradually, Gradually, Gradually, Gradually, Money you can spend.
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Stocks, Stocks, Stocks, they change, The price goes up or down.
Gradually, Gradually, Gradually, Gradually, Money goes round and round.
Procedure:
1. Give children a selection of popular brands from which to choose her stock. For example,
Pepsico (PEP), Google (GOOG), Nike (NKE) or Apple (AAPL) are all well-known
companies that are publicly traded.
2. Students use various mediums to track their stock (newspaper, internet) over the span of
five days.
Activity:
A. This table illustrates the sort of information that can be found in the stock-listings
pages of most newspapers.
B. The first two columns, labeled “52 Weeks Hi Lo,” list the highest and lowest prices
of the respective stocks during the last 52 weeks. For example, the highest price
paid for a share of Sony Corporation stock during the last 52 weeks was $64.25.
C. The next column is labeled “Stock.” This column contains an abbreviated name for
the listed companies. For example, “McDnlds” is the abbreviation for McDonald’s
D. The next column is labeled “Sym.” “Sym” stands for symbol. Each stock traded in the
stock markets has a symbol. The symbol for McDonald’s is MCD.
E. The next two columns are labeled “Hi” and “Lo.” These two columns show the highest and
lowest prices paid for a share of this stock on this particular trading day.
F. The final column is labeled “Close.” This column lists the price of a share of stock in its
last trade at the close of the market on this particular day.
G.
52 Weeks
Stock
Sym
Hi
Lo
Close
47.50
Abercrombie
ANF
66.50
65.50
65.25
80.25
48.75
DaveBusters
DAB
77.25
74.25
74.25
64.25
44.50
SonyCp
SNE
60.50
59.50
59.50
26.75
22.25
GenMills
GIS
26.50
26.50
26.50
66.25
37.50
McDnlds
MCD
63.25
61.50
61.50
9.75
47.75
PepsiCo
PEP
43.50
42.00
42.50
Hi
Lo
68.5
Assessment:
I.
1, The first two columns, labeled “52 Weeks Hi Lo,” list the highest and lowest prices of
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the respective stocks during the last 52 weeks.
a. What was the highest price for Abercrombie and Fitch stock during the last 52
weeks?
b. Write this price as a mixed number.
c. What was the lowest price of PepsiCo stock during the last 52 weeks?
d. Write this price as a mixed number.
II.
III.
IV.
2. The next two columns are labeled “Hi” and “Lo.” These columns show the highest and
lowest price paid for the stock on that particular trading day. For example, on this day,
the highest price paid for a share of Dave and Buster’s stock was $77.25.
What was the lowest price paid for a share of General Mills stock on this day?
The next column shows the closing price for the stock. The closing price is the price of a
share of the stock in its last trade at the close of the market on this particular day.
a. What was the closing price (last price) paid for a share of PepsiCo stock on this
day?
b. What was the closing (last price) paid for a share of Sony Corporation stock on
this day?
3. Students complete a chart like below during their observations to track the stock price for
their stock.
Day:
Monday
Stock Price:
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
4. Each day students research the value of their stocks, recording them in the tracking sheet.
Have them determine how much the stock's value increased or decreased.
5. Acccomodations:
According to the strengths and abilities of the students ome students can use the data
collected over the 5day span to create a bar graph using a free website.
http://www.sadlieroxford.com/math/mc_manipulative.cfm?sp=student&tp=grade&grade=2&id=9#activity
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skill_builders/graphing_coordinate_plane_math_fifth_5
th_grade.htm
Others can use Microsoft word or Excel to chart their data
7. As an extension activity, have the students create a line graph to display the change of the
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stock throughout the project. Have them plot the price at the end of each day, connecting the
dots with a line.
8. Students interpret the data they collected by reflecting on the process, including the
information the graph created shows.
Behavioral
Objectives
“3”
“2”
“1”
Target
Satisfactory
Unsatisfactory
Behavioral Objective
#1:
Bar Graph
Bar Graph axes are
labeled, all data is
entered and
computations are
correct.
Bar Graph axes are
labeled, and there is
one minor error in
entering data and/or
computations.
Behavioral
Objective #2:
Graph is interpreted
and explained
correctly.
Graph is interpreted
correctly but not
explained.
Bar Graph and/or
axes are not labeled,
there is more than
one minor error in
entering data and/or
computations
Graph is interpreted
and explained
incorrectly.
Interpreting data
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Student
Rating
6