By Stacie Martin

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Playing the Market
By Stacie Martin
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Paradise High School9th GradeWeb
Sitehttp//ctap295.ctaponline.org/smartinEmail
Stacierob1_at_aol.com
Computer Foundations
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Lesson

• Students
• Followed three stocks for 10 days
• Used a spreadsheet to track increases and
  decreases
• Calculated profit/loss for each stock and
  portfolio
• Created a chart to illustrate outcomes

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Expectations

• To create a student lesson
• To learn basic web design
• To publish that lesson on a web site
• To learn to upload and download to a server

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Outcomes
I learned

• Netscape Navigator Program
• Uploading and downloading using Fetch and Leech
• Creating and changing links within my web page
• Linking a document to a web page

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Successes

• Interest in the stock market
• Interest in spreadsheets to track stocks
• Excitement everyday to see gains/losses
• Use of internet to access web page
• Use of internet to research companies
• Appreciation of spreadsheets to help with
  tracking
• Lesson meets standards

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Shortcomings

• Began spreadsheet unit before pre-test
• School-wide testing interfered with time-line
• Students did not refer to web site enough
• Not enough time to complete all components
• Problems with computer hardware

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Graphs
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Revisions

• Change my introduction so that students rely
  
  
  more on web page for direction
• Time the lesson within school calendar
• Coordinate and time the two units
• Give the pre-test prior to beginning
  spreadsheets
• Spend more time on graphing
• Rewrite to include more step by step instruction.

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Summary

• Overall students enjoyed the assignment and found
  the internet component the best part. Most liked
  referring to the internet for instruction. Some
  students needed more detailed explanation which
  lead me to rewrite in a more step by step method.
• I plan to continue this lesson and possibly add
  more to the internet in the future.

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Student Work
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Stocks