Online Investing
PowerPoint Lesson
By: Craig Ellison
Essential
Question:
How can
understanding the basics of online investing be beneficial to your life?
Stock Tracker:
Make a stock
tracker spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel. Click here to review the basics of entering information into
Microsoft Excel. Your chart must have the name of your stock, purchase price,
sale price, number of shares and daily price entries.
Here’s an
example:

Setup
Procedures:
Step 1: Open
PowerPoint and create a blank presentation.
Step 2: Click on
the 4 squares button and create 7 slides using the copy and paste technique.
Step 3: Format
background colors for each slide. Every slide can use the same color or design.
Step 4: Use
WordArt to write a title for each slide.
Step 5: Insert a
picture or clipart of the topic for every slide.
Project:
The shell you
have just created will be used to develop a PowerPoint
slide on “Online Investing”. The first slide must be a title slide.
The title slide should have the name of the project, investor’s name, and
dates of the project. The introduction slide should introduce the project that
you have been developing. The last slide must be a
summary slide.
Topics: Below are the 7 topics that must be covered in your presentation:
Title
Slide Basic
Chart Information
Introduction
Slide Profit/loss
summary (4 Week period)
Company Profile Summary
of your project
Company Headline
Financial Summary
Research
Links:
QCC
Objectives:
8.6 & 8.7
Demonstrates basic knowledge of information-processing software packages.