Students will explore AOL s investment snapshot window, charts, investment research, and news section for one or two other companies such as Mobile Oil or Ford Motor Corporation. Students brainstorm with their cooperative learning group to set up additional criteria for choosing a stock and add the criteria to their semantic webs. Students share their criteria with the class. Students evaluate each other s criteria. Students use a drawing and painting application such as Scholastic s Superprint, Broderbund s Kidpix, or ClarisWorks to draw a semantic web with the stock criteria information on it.
Students print and display their work.
See sample semantic web. Students use a database application such as ClarisWorks to list criteria in the form of focus questions and print out their work. See sample focus questions. Students will be evaluated on the effectiveness of their finding locations on the Internet for researching stocks. The quality of the semantic web and database created as well as the criteria established will be evaluated by the teacher.