FinViz’s interactive map visually depicts the S&P500 in real time, making it a fantastic tool to “show” students how the stock market responds to current events (DeepSeek anyone?) and other factors.

What makes the interactive great:

• Companies are grouped by industries
• Stock performance is depicted using color (green and red)
• Company size is shown by how big of a box it has on the map
• You can see how the market is doing over the past day, week, month(s), year, or more!

While using the interactive, you may want to ask questions like:

• How has the market performed in the past day? Week? Month? Year?
• What events might have caused the market to go up or down?
• Why do you think some companies in the same industry perform well while others don’t?

Use NGPF’s accompanying worksheet, INTERACTIVE: What’s the S&P 500?, with students to guide them through the interactive and facilitate meaningful discussion!

Bonus resource: Watch TwoCents’ video, Will the AI Bubble Burst?, to provide context for recent events around DeepSeek and its impact on the US stock market.

Looking for more interactive resources? Be sure to check out the NGPF Blog.

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Sonia Dalal

Sonia has always been passionate about instruction and improving students' learning experiences. She's come a long way since her days as a first grader, when she would "teach" music and read to her very attentive stuffed animals after school. Since then, she has taught students as a K-12 tutor, worked in several EdTech startups in the Bay Area, and completed her Ed.M in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is passionate about bringing the high quality personal finance content and instruction she wished she'd received in school to the next generation of students and educators. When she isn't crafting lesson guides or working with teachers, Sonia loves to spend her time singing, being outdoors, and adventuring with family and friends!

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