Stock Market Project~Final Report

I tried to chose my stocks carefully. I chose the Cabot Oil and Gas Company (COG) because it was on a list of good stocks (and it has a funny name...). I chose Insulet Corporation (PODD) because my dad worked there, and when my brother did this project, he made $6,000 on it. I chose Agilent Technologies Inc (A) because both my mom and dad worked there, and because it went up a lot before I bought it.

Although I did very well, there are things I would have done differently. I would have bought more of COG because it went up about $20 (I got a profit of about $5,000 from it!)! I also would have kept it longer because since it was going up so fast, it might have gone up even more! I also would have bought more of PODD and A, because they went up a lot too. Not as much as COG, but they definitely went up! Also, at the beginning, I wanted to sell PODD and A because they both went down, but I'm glad I kept it, because if I had not, I would have had a serious loss!

Here are a few things I learned that might be helpful to those interested in investing in the stock market:

Selling your stocks:

Make sure your stocks are worth more when you sell them than when you buy them.

What a stock is:

A part of a company that is sold to anyone who is willing to buy.

Buying stocks:

Make sure you buy stocks that you think will go up in value. Buy them when they don't cost much.

     This is my flag of Antarctica.  It has a penguin on it because Antarctica has penguins.  The writing is blue because blue usually means cold.  The backround is white because it could be a blizzard.  The blue lines around the edges are just to create some action in the picture.

This is a graph showing how deep and how long animals and people in the Antarctic can dive.

In flex class, we drew pictures to describe Greek or Latin word parts.  This is a picture of Cogn.  Cogn=Know

Hiding in the art room was a project we did in art class where we would take a picture of a good place to hide.  Then, we would take a picture of ourselves.  Then, we would take the picture of ourselves and select ourselves out of the picture using Adobe Photoshop and drag the picture of ourselves onto the picture of the place to hide.  Then, we would have a picture of ourselves hiding in the art room!

Recently we had Moon rocks in our class room.

State - New Hamshire

Region - North East

Country - USA

Continent - North America

Hemisphere - West

Planet - Earth

Solar System - Sun - Sol

Galaxy - Milky Way

Cluster - Local

Super Cluster - Local

Universe :-)

Rock Cycle:

            The rock cycle is a cycle that rocks go through to become different types of rocks.  Igneous rock (Extrusive) is metamorphosed and becomes metamorphic rock.  It is also weathered, then transported, and deposited into sediments.  The sediments go through litification, and turns into sedimentary rocks.  Sedimentary rocks are weathered and the cycle starts all over again.  It is also metamorphosed, and turns into metamorphic rock.  The metamorphic rock is melted, and turns into magma.  The magma crystallizes, and turns into igneous rocks. (Intrusive) The magma is also consolidated, and turns into extrusive igneous rocks.

- Igneous Rock

(Extrusive.)

- Weathering              -Metamorphism

- Transportation

- Deposition

- Sediments

- Lithification

- Sedimentary

Rocks

- Metamorphism

                                                - Metamorphic

                                                Rocks

- Melting

                                                - Magma

                        - Crystalization           - Consolidation

                        - Igneous rock            - Igneous rocks

                           (Intrusive)                  (Extrusive)

- Metamorphism       - Weathered

Have you ever wondered what caused the seasons? It is because of the Earth's tilt, therefore the sun hits it at a different angle. In winter solstice, the Earth is tilted so the sun hits the Tropic of Capricorn directly. Therefore, people up north have less sunlight, which means less heat. The same thing happens with summer solstice, only the sun hits the Tropic of Cancer. That means northern people have more heat.  During seasons in between summer and winter, the sun is shining on the equator.  The southern hemisphere is opposite of us (We are closer to the Tropic of Cancer. They are closer to the Tropic of Capricorn.), so when it is our winter solstice, it is their summer solstice!

Science: In science class I made a poster for the animal called: the Village Weaver. It's a bird that WEAVES its own nest.

Technology Education: In technology Education we made an instrument we call the thumb piano, but it's really called the M'bira.

Language Arts: In Language Arts we made our own folktales. Mine is about a greedy Village Weaver named Kijiji.

Math: In Math we are doing a project where we pretend we are going to Africa. We get to choose every country we go to, except for the first one. Mrs. Collyer chose the first country we go to. I went to Libya. During the project we are paying for food and overnight accommodations. (Not with real money.)

Social Studies: In Social Studies, we did the same thing as Math, only we did much more than just expence sheets. We also kept a pretend journal of what we saw and did while we where there. We made brochures for the countries we went to. We would draw the flag of the country, and make a detailed map of it, too.

Music: In Music, we learned about African music and instruments. We learned African drum beats, and learned about how some of the music came to Africa.

Art: In Art, we made African whistles. They had African patterns and we would be able to play music on them.