The Balance
The Balance: An Introduction to the Financial Markets
This article explains what the different types of financial markets are, including stocks, bonds, commodities, and derivatives, as well as what the functions of financial markets are.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Comparing Stock Investments
Students learn how calculating capital gains and capital losses can help them evaluate stock investments.
Other
Nerd Wallet: Beginners Tips for Evaluating Stock Performance
Easy to understand explanation of how to judge how individual stocks are performing, and which ones might be the best investments for specific buyers.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Long Bull Market
The Long Bull Market of the 1920s saw share prices on the stock market soar and its collapse contributed to the Great Depression.
Other
Msn: Money: Stocks
This resource offers free access to stock quotes on a daily basis. There are other analytical information such as bearish/bullish trends of the stock .
Other
Usa: Chapter 5: Stocks, Commodities, and Markets
Chapter 5 provides an overview of how stocks, commodities and markets work in the U.S. economic system.
PBS
Pbs Nova: Play a Virtual Market
Use this site to trade traditional stocks and learn how trading stocks in the market can increase your wealth (or decrease it too!)
PBS
Pbs Nova: Play a Virtual Market
Use this site to trade traditional stocks and learn how trading stocks in the market can increase your wealth (or decrease it too!)
Other
Market Watch
This site describes headlines, charts, news, and stock information. Everything you need to follow the U.S. marketplace.
University of Nebraska Omaha
Ec Ed Web: What Is a Stock? Or, Who Owns Mc Donald's?
Lesson plan from the University of Omaha where the learners will be able to understand what a stock is.
Investopedia
Investopedia: 4 Factors That Shape Market Trends
Learn about the four factors that shape market trends: government, international transactions, speculation and expectation and supply and demand.
Digital History
Digital History: The Market Crashes
Read about how in just five days a shaky stock market crashed and helped plunge the country into the Great Depression.
Digital History
Digital History: Rise and Crash [Pdf]
A great explanaton of how the bull market was started in the stock market in March of 1928, and how, through speculaton and buying on margin, pushed up stock prices. See how the bubble burst over a series of days in October, 1929,...
Digital History
Digital History: Charles Ponzi
The stock market crash on October 29, 1929, was the culmination of fraudulent practices of many forms in the 1920s. Read about Charles Ponzi and his schemes to make money, stock swindles, and stock speculation.
New York Times
New York Times: Looking Back at the Crash of '29
This site takes a look back at the stock market crash of 1929 and compares it to modern day confidence in the market. Content also includes the full text of the front page articles from the New York Times, dated October 28, 29, and 30,...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Crash
From the extensive and very approachable series, Freedom: A History of US, based on the books by Joy Hakim, read about the stock market crash in 1929 and its ramifications.
Other
Wall Street Whiz: The Crash of 1929
Site discusses the role of the Federal Reserve Board in the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Other
Digerati Life: Five Tips on Evaluating Your Investment Portfolio
Investing in the stock market can be a complicated process, but this site provides five things you should examine to make sure your investments are sound.
The History Cat
The History Cat: The Crash of '29
Describes what led to the stock market crash of 1929, what initiatives President Herbert Hoover took to try to recover from it, and what the results were.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Nyse Made Easy
This lesson will help students to understand the terms that are associated with the New York Stock Exchange. It will also help students to read a stock market report found in any major newspaper or online.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Iran Contra and Black Monday
As Reagan approached the end to his second term, his administration suffered minor setbacks in the final outcomes of the Iran Contra scandal and the Stock Market Crash of 1987.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Great Depression
Brief overview of the stock market crash and ensuing events of the Great Depression, 1929.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: How Global Is Your Portfolio?
This engaging instructional activity challenges students to connect economics and geography as they investigate global companies in the stock market.