Objective: This activity has the purpose of helping students to learn how to use a Financial Newspaper. The selection of a company's stock based on background research and to analyze the importance of the relationship between the stock market and the economy. This activity meets the learning objectives 5. 6. and 7. Student Instructions: Directions 1. At the beginning of week 1, students are going to be divided into four groups. Each group will be assigned an industrial sector such as pharmaceutical, retail stores, electronics, oil, utilities, or computers sectors. 2. A thousand dollars ($1,000) will be assigned to each group to supposedly buy stocks from at least three (3) different real world companies. The companies are to be selected from a financial newspaper or the Barron's: The Dow Jones Business and Financial Weekly. You may find this newspaper at Borders and Walgreen's. You may buy US stocks from the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, or American. 3. You may. . Go to Barron's market Data Center (click to access) to buy your stocks. . Go to Barron'o o s Sector Map: Health Care (click to access) to select the industrial sector. 4. Group members have to work together to select the company's stocks, and to select a group leader who will coordinate the meetings and the group discussion. Each group is required to find information on the internet about stocks exchange and the economic background of the companies selected. 5. In week 3, 6, 9, and 12 each group will report to the rest of the class a follow-up of the stocks selected in the financial newspaper through a chat discussion. After the reports are finished, there will be a chat discussion about which industrial sector is having the greatest economic benefit and why. 6. Groups are allowed to sell and buy new stocks if the company selected is losing its economic position. That will be a group decision