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Baseball and Fitness
Batter up! Springtime is a great time to get your students excited about sports and fitness. The opening of baseball season energizes us and inspires us to get outdoors, but did you know that sports, such as baseball, can easily be incorporated into the classroom? Check out this special collection from Thinkfinity.org and get your students thinking and moving.
Recommended Spring Fitness and Baseball Resources:
- All Around the Baseball Field encourages students to create a mock baseball field and explore the sport through art, movement and sound. (K-4)
- Have Fun with Baseball Stats as students connect the game with mathematical concepts. (6-8)
- Ever wonder Which Bat is Best? Find out with the Wonderopolis™ Wonder of the Day®. (PreK-6)
- Make a Perfect Pitch when you use baseball to explore the instruments of an orchestra. (5+)
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Baseball
All Around the Baseball Field
ARTSEDGE | Lesson Plan | K-4
Students create a mock baseball field and explore the sport of baseball through art, movement and sound.
Baseball Economics 101
EconEdLink | Lesson Plan | 6-12
Learn about the economics behind the baseball franchise and how smaller market teams compete with larger market teams.
Curve Balls
Science NetLinks | Lesson & Audio | 6-12
Students learn about the mathematics behind baseball pitching.
The Economics of Professional Sports: Unpaid Millionaires?
EconEdLink | Lesson Plan | 9-12
Learn about professional baseball and the competitive factors that drive salaries.
Fun with Baseball Stats
Illuminations | Lesson Plan | 6-8
Encourages students to explore the statistics surrounding baseball and connect various mathematical concepts.
Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.
ReadWriteThink | Resource | 7-12
Students learn about the first African American to play Major League Baseball.
Perfect Pitch
ARTSEDGE | Interactive | 5+
Students can make a hit when they use baseball to explore the instruments of an orchestra.
Play Ball! Read and Write Sports Trivia
ReadWriteThink | Project & Activity | 5-10
Students read and compare baseball trivia questions; they then write their own questions and play a trivia game.
Seeing Eye to Eye with the Umpire
Science NetLinks | Lesson Plan | 6-8
Students develop an understanding of how a technology system measure balls and strikes and how that system compares to the accuracy of a human umpire.
Was Babe Ruth Under Paid?
EconEdLink | Lesson Plan | K-12
This lesson demonstrates a method for teaching students about inflation and the Consumer Price Index by using baseball players’ salaries for purposes of illustration.
Wonder of the Day: Which Bat is Best?
Wonderopolis | Video & Activity | PreK - 6
Find out what makes one bat better than another bat.
Spring Fitness
All Systems Go
Science NetLinks | Interactive | K-6
Test your knowledge of the body’s internal systems at this interactive site.
The Beat of Your Heart
Illuminations | Unit & Activities | 3-5
See the connections between science and mathematics as you collect, record and interpret data involving heart rates at rest and after exercise.
Cardiac Output, Rates of Change, and Accumulation
Illuminations | Unit & Activities | 9-12
In this unit of four activities, students measure the amount of blood being pumped by a heart using a mathematical model that also has applications outside of medicine.
Health Eating
Science NetLinks | Lesson Plan | K-2
In this lesson, students learn about the importance of eating a healthy diet.
Reaching for Olympic Glory
Science NetLinks | Activity | 3-12
Discover the healthy habits, hard work and dedication athletes need to excel in sports.
Wonder of the Day: What Is Spring Training
Wonderopolis | Video & Activity | PreK-6
Find out why professional baseball teams practice and play exhibition games every spring.
