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Background:Owning a piece of your favorite company many not seem possible, but it is through the Stock Market. To learn what the Stock Market is and how it works, I have uploaded a PowerPoint (Stock Market PowerPoint Presentation) for you to view as well as a YouTube video which can be located here: you have viewed these 2 resources you will be ready to start on your project!!For this project, you will be assigned a company, which is publicly owned, and imagine that you have bought shares (ownership) in that company. You will have $1,000.00 to invest (buy shares). You will research your company, track your investment, and create a presentation of your findings and how well your investment did. You will be using calculation skills learned during the year to calculate percent change, gain/loss and unit rates as well as graphing the data that you track and calculate.At the end of the project you will put all the information you have gathered into a presentation (either a poster or a PowerPoint) that you will then present.While you are doing your research, you will be doing some worksheets to practice the skills you will need to use to complete this project. Deliverables (what you are expected to turn in at the end of the project):1. All worksheets assigned.2. A 9-day record of your company’s price, change from previous day, and percent change.3. A poster or PowerPoint created according to the Presentation Rubric containing:A minimum of 7 facts about the company you invested in presented in paragraph formA creative poster title or title slide including company name and logoGraphs of:Daily Percent Change in investment for 9 daysDaily Price per share for 9 days.Table showing the data you collected for the 9 daysTotal Investment gain/loss for the 9-day period (did you make or lose money; was it a good investment)Illustrations, pictures, etcTO DO LIST:Week of 4/6 to 4/9Watch the YouTube video through the PowerPoint in your assignment link – Stock Market PowerPoint PresentationStart recording price data on your company using the Stock Price Tracking Sheet and the links to google finance or Yahoo finance that are on that worksheetComplete worksheet Language of the StreetStart doing the research on your company using the Stock Market Company Worksheet outline to guide you.Week of 4/13 to 4/17 – rubric will be posted on 4/13Continue tracking your company’s pricing informationContinue gathering your company’s informationComplete the Ups and Downs of the Stock Market worksheet (posted 4/13)Start planning and working on your final presentationStart creating your pricing and percent change graphs.Week of 4/20 to 4/28Present your final Poster or PowerPointComplete the Stock Market Project Reflection form. ................
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