Investment simulation
Invest in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, and gold. Play for up to 50 years in a simulated market!
Format
Online
CD
Network
Learner
College
& Adult
G 10–12
G 7–9
G K–6
Pre K
Depth
Duration
Language
Detailed
MAX
hundreds
of hours
English
Moderate
MIN
1–2
hours
Intro
Latest version 1.6.1
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About
GoVenture Investment simulation is a realistic software simulation designed to help youth and adults learn about personal investment decisions in a fun and educational manner. Like a flight simulator for finance and life, GoVenture Investment enables you to learn by doing without risking your investment dollars. It’s easy to use, visual, interactive, and exciting!
Unlike any book, course, Investment enables you to gain years of investment experience in minutes — not weeks or months!
Decide where to invest your money — stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or precious metals. Buy and sell in virtual markets and watch your investments grow and shrink based upon the economy, and your investment decisions. Practice your investment skills on your own, against your friends and classmates, or challenge the computerized investors in the simulation. Learn how the financial markets operate. Gain practical experience so you have the confidence to explore real investment markets.
More than just buying and selling from an investment account, GoVenture Investment allows you to research investments, follow economic trends, track performance, predict how news and rumors will affect prices, and survive the unpredictability of the markets and economy. Play again and again — every new simulation you run is different!
GoVenture Investment is ideal for youth and adults in self-directed or facilitated learning environments. GoVenture Investment is also the perfect complement to any finance, business, economics, math, career, or family and consumer sciences course. See below for what's included.
Plus, run an entire session of GoVenture Investment within minutes, or over an extended period of time. Compete against others and against the computer. Use a single computer, or play on multiple computers — over a local network or the Internet.
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Activities, topics,
and outcomes
With over 170 activities, topics, and outcomes covered, GoVenture Investment makes it quick and easy to deliver curriculum-matched outcomes in a way that is problem-based, cross-curriculum, thematic, and holistic.
Help
Technical Support
Sales Questions
Education QuestionsCONTACT
Case Studies
Education Bundle Resources
Education Bundle Resources are included in Adobe PDF format with your product purchase (certain licenses excluded). Click the PRICES tab for details.
Experiencing Investment
An Illustrated Introduction to Investment
Lesson plans and activities designed to bring education on writing a business plan, pricing products, hiring employees, and other business challenges alive in the classroom.
An 80-page book that outlines the basics every aspiring investor needs to know in an easy-to-read, summary format.
Learning Guides & Activities
Instructor & Student Editions
A selection of objective questions which can be used to create tests.
Test Bank
A helpful feature included in the software simulation that displays detailed simulation results, assigns a score to performance based upon a number of factors, and can be printed out as a report for evaluation.
Performance Report
See the table of contents. 
Experiencing Investment — Table of Contents
1. Welcome
2. GoVenture Investment
a. What is the GoVenture Investment Simulation
b. What Makes GoVenture Investment Unique
c. GoVenture for You
d. What You Need to Play GoVenture Investment
e. More Information
3. Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth
a. Assets
b. Your Liabilities
c. Net Worth
4. Portfolio Management
a. Key Investment Terms and Concepts
b. Time Value of Money
c. Return on Investment (ROI)
d. Rate of Return
e. Risk and Return
f. Economic Influences
g. Economic Indicators
h. Savings and Debt Investments
i. Equity Investments
5. Calculating the Return on Investment
a. Comparing Investments and Rates of Return
b. Simple Rates of Return
c. Compound Rates of Return
6. Stocks
a. Why Companies Sell Stock
b. Why People Buy Stock
c. Which Companies Issue Stock
d. Issuing and Owning Stock
e. Classes of Stock
f. Stock Options and Warrants
g. Economic Indicators
h. Categories of Stoc
i. Buying and Selling in the Stock Market
j. Risk and Benefits - Stocks
7. Bonds
a. What is a Bond?
b. Why People Buy Stock
c. Which Companies Issue Stock
d. Issuing and Owning Stock
e. Classes of Stock
f. Stock Options and Warrants
g. Economic Indicators
h. Categories of Stoc
i. Buying and Selling in the Stock Market
j. Risk and Benefits - Stocks
8. Money Market Instruments
a. Money Market Securities
b. Money Markets
c. Buying and Selling Money Market Instruments
d. Risks and Benefits - Money Market Instruments
9. Mutual Funds
a. Types of Mutual Funds
b. Buying and Selling Mutual Funds
c. Ownership
d. Risks and Benefits - Mutual Funds
10. Other Equity Investments
a. Real Estate
b. Precious Metals
c. Derivatives
d. Commodities
e. Other Capital Assets
f. Risks and Benefits - Other Equity Investments
11. Next Steps
View samples of these resources
Adobe PDF (5MB)
FREE Resources
Case Studies
Examples of how GoVenture is being used by others.
Award Certificates
Printable certificates for rewarding learner achievement.
Education Standards Maps
See how GoVenture maps to specific education standards.
Cheat Sheet
Summarizes helpful business and money information into a single sheet of paper.
Instructor Guide
A guide to using GoVenture in the classroom or in a business training environment.
Adobe PDF (653kB)
Standardize On GoVenture
Why states and districts are adopting GoVenture as a curriculum standard.
GoTeacher
Start your week with 1 item that informs, inspires, or entertains.
GoVentureOasis.com
A free website containing a wealth of business tools, activities, and games.
GoVenture Sponsorship Program
A special resource for schools and nonprofits to help find the funds needed to purchase GoVenture.
Product Videos
Watch demonstration and training videos - the best way to get started quickly.
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