Online Projects, Collaboration Sites and Publishing Opportunities

Lesson Idea Name: Graphing the Stock Market

Content Area: Math
Grade Level(s): 3rd grade
Content Standard Addressed: 4. Model with mathematics. Students experiment with representing problem
situations in multiple ways including numbers, words (mathematical language), drawing pictures, using
objects, acting out, making a chart, list, or graph, creating equations, etc. Students need opportunities to
connect the different representations and explain the connections. They should be able to use all of these
representations as needed. Third graders should evaluate their results in the context of the situation and
reflect on whether the results make sense

Technology Standard Addressed:

2. Digital Citizen- Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning
and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal
and ethical.

7. Global Collaborator Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their
learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.

Selected Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity: ireport.cnn.com

URL(s) to support the lesson: http://money.cnn.com/

Describe how you would incorporate an Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity in your
classroom): Though 3rd graders may not understand the stock market, this project allows them to get a look
at these things, and form an understand of what is going on. As a class, we pick one company to view each
day. We would log on to CNN ireport daily for a week or two. Each day, every student would write down the
number and would begin making a bar graph of the numbers we see.
At the end of the time we chose, the teacher would show how the graph should look and would collect each
students graph. Any changes that needed to made the teacher would make one on one with the student who
made an error.

What technologies would be required to implement this proposed learning activity in a classroom?
The only technology needed would be a computer and a projector so students would be able to see the
number each day.

Describe how the following features are addressed in this learning experience (note: all of them may not be
addressed in the project, but most should be if you are reaching a high LoTi Level).
a. Collaboration with peers, near-peers, mentors outside their classroom and often beyond their
school: Someone who is familiar with the stock market could be invited in to speak on these

b. Student-centered learning and knowledge creation (creating original data and or producing original
products as a result of engaging in a project): The students would be making a graph therefore
documenting the highs and lows of the companies stock.

c. Higher-order thinking: Students will be viewing the stock market numbers for a specific company and
so will be learning some basic yet key things about a topic they may never learn about.

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d. Students publishing their original work to others who will use/care about their product: Students will
not be publishing their work.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☒ Applying ☒ Analyzing ☐ Evaluating ☒ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

☐ Level 1: Awareness ☐ Level 2: Exploration ☐ Level 3: Infusion ☒ Level 4: Integration
☐ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Students will be working individually, but the entire class will be doing
the same assignment so they will be able to help each other. Working individually will help the teacher see
how much they know, but being able to ask another classmate if it is what they are doing is correct can be
great help, especially if one is explaining.
Lesson idea implementation and Internet Safety Policies: This is very safe because the students will not be
logging in themselves. The teacher will log in and students will view from the projection.

Reflective Practice: This is great practice for students to work on material that they are learning, graphing,
and it is great to infuse some material that typically isn’t taught in school to potentially spark interest and
parents child discussions at home about the stock market.

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