MATH

Playing the Stock Market
By: Rachel Ashe, Jessica Dancu, Rachel Hertzog, Avery Willis

Satisfying the SOL 7.5, the student will accurately solve consumer application problems involving daily recordings of their simulated bought stock with computation of spending allotment, broker's fee, and net loss/gain using decimals and percents.  

SOCIAL STUDIES

Global Shopping Trip

• Students will be able to match units of currency with corresponding country seven out of nine times.
• Given a chart of nine major foreign currencies, students will be able to determine the rate of exchange per US dollar.govt.htm
• Using their calculated amounts, students will be able to compute the amount of foreign currency required to purchase everyday goods that students might want.
  

Oregon Trail

If the lesson plan is properly completed, students will play and complete a game of The Oregon Trail and afterwards will, using information acquired from the game and other sources (e.g., WWW), create a "helpful guide to the Oregon Trail for new travelers."  This guide will include factual information about the trail and stops along it, hints for making the journey easier and anecdotal information about the students' own "trips" along the Trail.