presented by the Colorado Council for Economic Education

A classroom simulation for students in Grades 4-12

FREE Promo SMG Game: January 9-27, 2012

Early Spring 2012 Game Dates: January 9 to April 20, 2012

Late Spring 2012 Game Dates: March 12 to May 18, 2012

Cost: $10 per team (3-5 students) with a 3 team minimum per teacher, plus you can sign up for a FREE teacher’s team.

Questions: 303-832-4764, 888-815-2974 toll-free, or smg@ccee.net

Register: http://colorado.smgww.org

Current Stock Market Game™ Brochure 

FREE Teacher Trainings Workshops and Webinars

2010-2011 SMG Awards Ceremony

2011 Spring Winners, 2010 Fall Winners, 2010 Spring winners, 2009 Fall Winners and 2009 Spring Winners

Please contact ERICA FUKUHARA at smg@ccee.net, 303-832-4764, or
888.815-2974 toll-free for more information.

Here’s How the
Stock Market Game™ Works
 

Step 1 - Virtual Cash
Students start with a virtual $100,000 cash account. Teachers use our curriculum to teach about long-term savings and investing.
 

Step 2 - Team Research
Working in teams, students research and evaluate companies and decide how they want to invest their cash together, based on what they have learned.
 

Step 3 - Academic Enrichment
Students follow the news and learn how current events can shape the economy. Plus they learn math as they calculate how changes in their stock prices affect their portfolio’s value.
 

Step 4 - Portfolio Management
Students purchase and sell stocks online as they follow the market and develop an understanding of what makes companies succeed, and how economic and political events can impact a company’s stock. Students compete for awards and all students receive a certificate of participation.
 

Step 5 - InvestWrite
Our national essay contest, InvestWrite, is an excellent culminating activity. Essay questions focus students on the importance of long-term saving and investing and strengthen their language skills. You don’t have to teach language arts to participate and there are great prizes available for both teachers and students. Learn more at www.investwrite.info.

What students gain from The Stock Market Game™ (SMG) program is a remarkable and memorable experience — an understanding of how their classroom lessons apply to the real world, and lifelong learning skills.

Who?
The Stock Market Game™ is appropriate for Grades 4-12.

What?
Comprehensive standards-based educational program based on a real-life simulation of the stock market.

Why?
The Stock Market Game™ teaches about the U.S. economic system while conveying and reinforcing basic concepts in economics, math, business, language arts, social studies, personal finance literacy, and more. In fact, the SMG curriculum is correlated to Colorado Academic Standards in 4 core academic areas for grades 4-12 including Economics, English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies. Beginning in 2011, SMG lessons will be aligned to the updated Colorado Academic Standards including the related 21st Century Skills and Readiness Competencies and the new Personal Financial Literacy Standards.

SMG Team Cost
$10 per team (3-5 students) with a 3 team minimum per teacher, plus you can sign up for a FREE teacher’s team.

InvestWrite Essay Contest
Students who participate in SMG may also enter InvestWrite, a national writing competition that is an extension of SMG. Students are provided a topic and an investment scenario, which requires them to assess, research, and then formulate possible solutions based on their findings, logic, and ideas. InvestWrite essays are reviewed by a national panel of judges.

Awards
Participants in the Fall and Early Spring SMG are eligible for regional and state level awards for The Stock Market Game™. In addition, InvestWrite entries are eligible for state and national awards. Award winning students and teachers are recognized at the annual Stock Market Game award ceremony in May.

We provide everything you need to teach your students the Stock Market Game! Valuable online teacher and student materials include research tools, lesson plans, curriculum, online teacher training, online newspaper subscriptions and up-to-date SMG Program news!
 

Study Shows SMG Improves Student Learning in Math & PFL*

Recently, Learning Point Associates® conducted a  randomized controlled study in nearly 600 classrooms nationwide measuring the impact of The Stock Market Game™ (SMG) on student performance in mathematics and personal financial literacy (PFL). We are very excited to share the positive results of this independent study with you!

This rigorous study found that The Stock Market Game program significantly improved student performance in mathematics and increased financial literacy.

Students took grade-level appropriate mathematics tests composed of items from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as "the Nation’s Report Card."

Average Mathematics Test Scores from Stock Market Game Study

Students also took grade-level appropriate tests to measure financial literacy.

Average Financial Literacy Test Scores from Stock Market Game Study

Analyses indicated that regardless of the classroom techniques – basic or more advanced – students playing The Stock Market Game™ showed better performance on the mathematics and financial literacy tests than their nonplaying peers.

*this independent study was underwritten by a grant from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Register your student teams today at
www.stockmarketgame.org!
 

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