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OVERVIEW
In this lesson, students will take part in a stock market simulation by making decisions about investments with my class and tracking our investments in my work.
LESSON TIME
This lesson will take approximately 45 – 60 minutes.
Exact times may vary based on the specific needs of individual classes.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
- How did the stock market crash of 1929 affect people who had invested in the market, and how did the crash affect the entire U.S. economy?
Teacher Tools
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Lesson Plan, Teacher Guide, Sources
Downloadable/editable versions of this lesson plan, including a step-by-step guide through the lesson. When applicable, a list of primary sources used in the lesson is also included.
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This ready-to-use classroom slideshow contains the warm-up exercise, the daily objective, the “We will / I will” statements, and the essential question for the lesson.
It guides the class through the assignment providing larger versions of images, visual representations of the directions, and supports for reading and answering questions including sentence stems for in-class responses. It concludes with the exit ticket.
Student Activities
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Warm-up & Exit Ticket
In this printable warm-up / bell-ringer activity, students will be introduced to the term, “inflation.” They will then match 5 items or jobs including a loaf of bread and average weekly salaries for restaurant servers with their monetary value in 1929. The results of this warm-up can be used throughout the rest of the lesson to put the amounts of money discussed in the lesson into the context of the era.
In this exit ticket, students will read a short passage from the secondary source work, Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State, presenting several specific ways in which the stock market crash affected the Texas economy. Students summarize one effect of the crash on the Texas economy based on the excerpt.
The Warm-up and Exit Ticket document includes two warm-ups on the front of the page and two exit tickets on the back of the page. This formatting reduces the number of copies needed, as teachers will cut each printed page in half. Each student will receive a half-page with the warm-up on the front and the exit on the back.
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Grade Level Work
In this printable assignment, students will fill in the blanks on the graphic organizers provided based on the decisions they make as a class, including information about all options presented to them, any loans they decide to take out, profits, and losses. Equations are included allowing students to plug in numbers related to their investment. The work ends with students creating short, constructed response related to how the crash would have likely affected families with the assistance of sentence stems, the effects of buying on margin with multiple-choice options, and the overall effects of the crash on the U.S. economy with a multi-select option question.
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In this printable assignment, students will fill in the blanks on the graphic organizers provided based on the decision they make as a class, including information about all options presented to them, any loans they decide to take out, profits, and losses. Equations are included allowing students to plug in numbers related to their investment. The amount of writing is reduced from the grade level work. The work ends with students creating short, constructed response related to how the crash would have likely affected families with the assistance of sentence stems, the effects of buying on margin with multiple-choice options and one answer option eliminated, and the overall effects of the crash on the U.S. economy with a multi-select option question and one answer option eliminated.
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In this printable assignment, students will fill in the graphic organizers based on the decision they make as a class, including information about all options presented to them, any loans they decide to take out, profits, and losses. The work ends with students creating short, constructed response related to how the crash would have likely affected families, the effects of buying on margin, and the overall effects of the crash on the U.S. economy.
Sources
Previews and links to sources referenced in this lesson.
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