Michael Taverna

A two week (with room for adding or taking away) activity simulating the stock market in your classroom! Students will interact with 8 different age-appropriate 'stocks': - Gold, Shell gas, McDonald's, Banana, Air Canada, Cineplex, Nike, Google Start each day with an exciting, hands-on, and real-world skills based 15-20 mins of students buying, selling, and trading in the classroom stock market. Students will be able to practice mental math of all basic operations (addition, subtraction, multip

A full day activity for your students to try being entrepreneurs! I dressed up as a successful business person that day, Mr. Taverna left for an 'appointment' they loved it! We began the day watching 'child entrepreneur' videos and discussing them. I allowed students to choose whether they wanted to work alone or in partners. We discussed the benefits and drawbacks of having a 'business partner' or going solo.