“Casey at the Bat” from ReadWriteThink
After reading “Casey at the Bat," students choose characters and make
baseball cards for the players in the poem, thinking carefully about
what should appear on the front and back of the cards. Students can use
the interactive Character Trading Cards to create their cards. Grades 3-8.
Fun with Baseball Stats from Illuminations
In this lesson, students use the statistics on baseball cards and work
with fractions, decimals, and integers to create a game board and "Play
Ball!" This lesson helps to develop students' mathematical reasoning
and computation skills, and provides an informal look at the laws of
probability. Grades 6-8.
Baseball Stats from Science NetLinks
In this lesson, students use baseball data available on the Internet to
develop an understanding of the different ways in which data can be
analyzed. In order to answer prepared questions, students will need to
know which data to select and how to use the data to formulate answers
to their questions. Grades 6-8.
Curve Balls from Science NetLinks
In this Science Update Podcast, you'll hear about the mathematics behind
baseball pitching. Chuck Romine, a computational mathematician, says a
member of his team has invented a new mathematical method that more
accurately describes the flight path of the curve ball, which could have
big uses beyond the ballpark. Grades K-12.
The Economics of Professional Sports: Underpaid Millionaires? from EconEdLink
Are MLB players overpaid? Are owners paying players their true market
worth? This lesson will help answer these questions and others by using
the economic concepts of markets, perfect competition, factor inputs,
market failures and monopoly. Grades 9-12.
Play Ball! Encouraging Critical Thinking Through Baseball Questions from ReadWriteThink
This lesson encourages students to look critically at trivia questions before writing their own. Students begin by reading Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man
and visiting websites containing baseball facts. Using the information
they discover, students write questions to include in a Jeopardy!® game
PowerPoint template. Grades 6-8.
Swish! Pow! Whack! Teaching Onomatopoeia Through Sports Poetry from ReadWriteThink
Students explore poems written about sports, then view a segment of a
sporting event, generating a list of sounds used in that event.
Finally, they create their own onomatopoeic sports poems using the Sports Poetry Flip Book Project and publish their work using the Flip Book online tool. Grades 6-8.
Perfect Pitch from ARTSEDGE
Step up to the plate with this interactive learning tool designed to
introduce middle-school audiences to the 'all-stars' of the orchestra:
the instruments! Grades 6-8.
Baseball Artifacts from Smithsonian’s History Explorer
Students can see the Louisville Slugger baseball bat
that St. Louis Cardinal Stan “The Man” Musial (b. 1920) used to
collect his 3,000th hit on May 13, 1958, in Chicago's Wrigley Field, or
the catcher’s mask Steve Richard Nicosia (b. 1955) used as a rookie when he caught during game seven of the 1979 World Series. Grades K-12.
