Visit the Hollywood Stock Exchange athttp://www.hsx.com/

(Links to an external site.)

. Here, users can buy and sell virtual shares in movies and celebrities using a virtual currency in a real-time online marketplace. It's just like buying and selling shares of stock. You can buy shares of your favorite American Idol contestant, for example, and then sell those shares when they win! (An old example, but you get the point.) Students may utilize Paint, Word (the shapes tool), or hand draw the graphs.

1. Use the search feature to search for your favorite celebrity and summarize the recent history of his or her share price. What may have caused the share price to go up or down over time? Explain your reasoning and show graphically.
2. Use the search feature to search for an upcoming movie that you are excited about seeing and summarize the recent history of its share price. What may have caused the share price to go up or down over time? Explain your reasoning and show graphically.
3. If you joined today, what celebrity stock or movie stock would you buy, and why? Explain your reasoning and show graphically.