Causes of the Wall Street Crash

A lesson looking at why the Wall Street Crash happened through an interactive game trying to recreate the stock market. Students should already have an understanding from previous lessons as to what the stock market was and what it meant by speculating.
There are some character cards which explain why people speculated in the late 1920s, give each student a different one and get them to summarise why they speculated on the stock market.
You will then need dice for the next activity. Students pick shares of some well known companies of the 1920s/still today, they can only invest $1000.
Then there are 5 rounds where depending on the round and the number on the dice, students shares will either go up or down.
Summarise the lesson with what happened to their shares, then there is a summary task which depending on time can be done in the lesson or as homework.