Challenge your students to make a profit investing in stocks.
Go to Virtual Stock Exchange - MarketWatch, create yourself an account then create a new game.
You can basically use all of their preset game settings just adjusting the dates for when you want the competition to run for.
Students can then join and start investing their pretend money in stocks. The stocks are real world and in real time.
There are also lots of videos students can watch within MartketWatch to gain more knowledge about the world of investment.
After a 10-day competition with 17 of my students, each starting with $100,000 the winner made a profit of $4,944.43!
5 players turned a profit, 12 did not. An important lesson!
To advertise this project I asked gemini AI to make me a poster, this is what it came up with →
Embedded below are the instructions to a project to teach students about RSA encryption and usage of spreadsheets (utilising Google sheets). The google doc can be found here
Embedded below is the brief to a project designed to be very open ended. Students are asked to create an algorithm to suggest what someone should watch next based on viewing history and a library of shows. Students could approach this in a basic way or go deep into the coding. Google doc
Embedded below are the instructions to a project investigating how CT scanning works and using google sheets to replicate the maths. This involves some linear algebra, including matrices, transposes, rank, and matrix inversion that you will find in Further Maths A-Level. Google doc
TinkerCAD is free online design software that is actually very similar (just less powerful and contains less features) to the kind of CAD (Computer Aided Design) software that professional engineers use throughout the discipline.
TinkerCAD is free online design software that is actually very similar (just less powerful and contains less features) to the kind of CAD (Computer Aided Design) software that professional engineers use throughout the discipline.
The Project: Using the template below (ensuring students are working on their own copy of the template) students can design a
bridge out of any of the materials available on TinkerCAD. Instruct students not to change any of the material properties to ensure a fair challenge. Within TinkerCAD is the option to simulate an Earthquake. You can therefore test any submissions to destruction using the Earthquake. The design that lasts longest could win.
Template
I would also recommend to students a couple of YouTube tutorials (see below) to understand the basics. There are numerous more advanced tutorials you can also find.