Demand and Supply - In Real Life

Once you understand the importance and relationship of demand and supply to economic activity the world begins to make a little more sense.  The following real-world examples exemplify some of the factors that directly affect the supply of goods and the demand from consumers. 

Gun Sales Hinge on Obama Re-election 

World Oil Prices - an economic approach  

Unit One: Stock Market Investment

Each student will be allowed a starting budget of $1,000 to invest in the stock market.  This will be an ongoing unit that will continue throughout the year - you will not receive a grade for this unit until we sell our stocks in May of 2013.

Here's how it works:  each of you will purchase stocks in September and begin monitoring their progress on a weekly basis (we will work on this unit one day out of each week.)  You will be allowed a starting budget of $1,000 and will be responsible for documenting your earnings or losses.  You will be allowed to sell stocks you own and make additional purchases as your income allows.  At the end of the school year we will sell all of our holdings and any profits will be divided as follows: 60% goes back to QSI and 40% is split equally among each of the students in this class.  As you will be using money provided to you by QSI, you will not be liable for any losses.

The first step is to become knowledgable as to the terminology and general working of stocks.  Step two is to identify and research potential purchases.  After a period of two-three weeks you should have enough research completed to make your first purchase.  Instructions will be provided in class.

You will be required to create a blog to document your transactions and research.

Let's make some money!