STOCK MARKET SCAVENGER HUNT 

http://www.themint.org/kids/what-is-the-stock-market.html

http://familymint.com/blog/explaining-the-basics-of-stocks-and-the-stock-market-to-your-kids#.Wd5JadOPLcs

1. What is a stock?

2. Name one way an investor makes money by owning stock?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market  

3. What is a stock market?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_exchanges

4. Name 6 foreign stock markets and the country and continent where they are located. List should include at least different continents. 

http://www.thehotpennystocks.com/Learn-To-Trade/major-us-stock-exchanges.aspx

5. What are the three main stock markets in the US?

6. When was the NYSE founded?

http://www.thehotpennystocks.com/Learn-To-Trade/buying-stocks.aspx

7. What is the difference between a full service broker house and a discount broker house?

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/do/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average

8. What is the Dow Industrial Average?

https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-sandp-500-3305888

9. What is the S&P?

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/050115/what-does-dow-jones-industrial-average-measure.asp

10. What do these averages “tell” the investor?

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price-earningsratio.asp

11. What is a PE ratio?

12. How does the PE ratio help the investor evaluate a company and what should the investor compare it to?

http://finance.yahoo.com/

https://finance.google.com/finance

13. What is the previous closing price of Apple Computer (AAPL)?

14. What is the P/E ratio of Apple (AAPL)?

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/stockcrash1929.htm

15. What does it mean to buy a stock on margin?

16. What happened on October 24, 1929, and why did this practice cause a problem in 1929?