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As spring training, opening day, or the World Series approaches, browse this collection of reviewed resources for curriculum connections to engage the sports fans in your classroom. Take a swing at connections between your curriculum and baseball. Invite students to create their own baseball-related activities using the concepts you are studying right now: math word problems, scientific analysis of baseball physics, baseball writing ideas, or primary source interviewing about baseball.
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Virtual Field Trips - Utah Education Network
Grades
1 to 12
tag(s): animals (157), baseball (37), biomes (112), business (38), charts and graphs (113), civil war (78), dinosaurs (31), egypt (52), field trips (8), immigrants (6), immigration (39), japan (56), maps (159), mayans (7), medieval (17), mexico (31), multiple intelligences (5), musical instruments (13), nutrition (98), olympics (38), painting (50), probability (65), religions (22), rocks (29), russia (19), sports (52), statistics (76), tessellations (7), test prep (50), virtual field trips (14), volcanoes (42), water cycle (20)
In the Classroom
Immerse your students into your studies with a close up in depth look through virtual field trips. Visit places where time, money, and mileage inhibit your dreams for bringing your students into wondrous worlds. Find ways to visit where your class has never gone before. Create a personalized field trip to meet your every need with the detailed tutorials given. Find ways to motivate your most reluctant learners. ESL/ELL learners will appreciate the visit. Reach all types of learners through a class visit. Use field trips as a whole class anticipatory guide, a center activity, a home connection, or even as extra credit. Challenge your gifted students to be guides to their own learning. Make your class go global!You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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ivar Peterson's Math Trek Archives - Ivar Peterson
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): baseball (37), fractions (129), logic (147), number sense (46), pi (12), prime numbers (17), problem solving (104), puzzles (133), square roots (9), trivia (9)
In the Classroom
This site is ideal to use as topics for Math Nights, Math Fairs, or other organized Math activities. Allow students to explore the site then choose one of the math activities to complete then present to the class. Have students make a multimedia presentation using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. Challenge students to find other "Recreational Math" information that could be added to the site and create a classroom bulletin board with the information.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Children's Books at Embracing the Child - Embracing the Child
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): authors (70), baseball (37), black history (31), book lists (48), book reports (13), independent reading (32), literature (178), newbery (2)
In the Classroom
Classroom teachers and schools without access to a Media Specialist can use this site to stay current on children's literature offerings and book awards. Use this site before reading a book for information about the author to share with your classroom. Locate books geared toward specific student interests using the category links on the left. Share this site on your classroom blog or website as a resource for parents and students to find books for independent reading. Use this site to find books specific to classroom topics such as nature books, picture books, or science and math books. Set up literature circles based on a topic.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ArtsEdge - Kennedy Center
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): african american (104), baseball (37), civil war (78), comics and cartoons (46), dance (16), folktales (56), greece (19), habitats (50), immigration (39), literature (178), mexico (31), musical instruments (13), myths and legends (6), native americans (32), painting (50), surrealism (3)
In the Classroom
Search this site for a topic that you are teaching in your class. Share the lesson on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Better yet, make the video or slideshow a learning station for students to do themselves in small groups.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Blackbaseball's Negro Baseball Leagues - Blackbaseball
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): baseball (37), black history (31), civil rights (58), sports (52)
In the Classroom
Use the site as a resource during Black History Month for students who are researching the Negro Baseball Leagues, or players who were part of the leagues. Tie together current events (during baseball season) with this historical site. Have cooperative learning groups create venn diagrams using an online tool such as the Interactive Two Circle Venn Diagram (reviewed here) to compare the Negro Baseball Leagues to the baseball teams of today. What was the same, what is different? The site might also be useful in discussions of the Civil Rights movement or as a part of a look at segregation in the early 20th century. Check back frequently, as the site is clearly expanding and will have more information in the future.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame - National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): baseball (37)
In the Classroom
Share the videos, interviews, and more on your interactive whiteboard or projector. As baseball season begins, have cooperative learning groups explore different elements of this site. Have the groups prepare a multi-media production. Perhaps a video clip of their own!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Baseball and Jackie Robinson - The Library of Congress
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): baseball (37), civil rights (58)
In the Classroom
Use this lesson plan with your secondary students to combine history, research using primary sources, and baseball.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Club MLB - Major League Baseball
Grades
1 to 6Be Aware: some links lead to subscription and shopping sites so students may need to be introduced to the site to be made aware of links to avoid.
tag(s): baseball (37), statistics (76)
In the Classroom
Share the latest polls with students and compare results to those found within your class. Create a link on classroom computers and allow students to read headlines and latest news then prepare a summary to present to the class. Have students use a multimedia tool such as an online, interactive poster creator (known as a "glog,") using GlogsterEDU, reviewed here. Follow students' favorite teams through the site to use as story starters and journal topics. Practice math by following statistics of Major League Baseball teams.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Baseball Almanac
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): charts and graphs (113), data (83), statistics (76)
In the Classroom
Share the site on your interactive whiteboard or projector to introduce statistics and common definitions. Use the spreadsheets on the site as real-world practice for learning Microsoft Excel skills by inputting data from students' favorite players or teams. Compare team and player statistics by graphing information inputted into spread sheets.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Brooklyn Nine WebQuest - Karen Steinberger
Grades
5 to 8tag(s): baseball (37), concept mapping (14), webquests (25)
In the Classroom
September and October are perfect months for baseball fever, with the World Series right around the corner, so why not get on base with The Brooklyn Nine: A Novel in Nine Innings and make a double play by introducing your class to the historical fiction genre. Divide your students into teams of two or three players to complete this WebQuest over the course of several days, using a class set of computers for a "home game" or take them to the computer lab for an "away game." There are many projects to choose from; assign all of them, select just a few, or have different teams be responsible for various activities. One of the tasks involves students creating an information web, using Inspiration software. If your school does not have a license for that software or it is not already downloaded on your school's computers, you can use free web-based alternatives, such as bubble.us reviewed here or one of the many tools available from Teachersfirst toolbox. Even if you do not have time to do the entire WebQuest, the links provide valuable background information for shorter investigations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Jackie Robinson-Breaking Barriers in Sports and in Life - Scholastic & Major League Baseball
Grades
4 to 8Every year, people across the country pause on April 15 to celebrate the historic event that marks the anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball in 1947. Use this educational program to bring the significance of Jackie Robinson's legacy to your classrooms. Although Breaking Barriers centers around an essay contest, you may choose to simply use the ideas to offer and assist your students in learning opportunities to teach them values that will enable them to face their own barriers and express themselves in written form. There are lessons, printables, book lists, and more that align with language arts, math, and social studies national standards.
tag(s): civil rights (58)
In the Classroom
Share the video of Jackie Robinson's daughter, Sharon Robinson, on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Listen to her personal story of her famous baseball player Dad's courage, determination, integrity, and persistence to break the color barrier on and off the playing field. Use an online tool like bubble.us reviewed here to engage students in whole class brainstorming of some of the real life barriers that students face today, and then lead into a journal writing activity for students to think about how to use Jackie Robinson's values to face and overcome barriers in their own lives. Whether you are celebrating the anniversary of Jackie Robinson Day, Black History month, a unit on courage and heroes, or introducing these concepts anytime during the year, the downloadable and whiteboard ready materials will increase the richness of your class discussions and broaden students' understanding of how to make a difference in their own lives and the lives of others.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Hitting Home Runs - Bill Willis
Grades
8 to 11In the Classroom
One idea for using this website to teach is to create a short question sheet or online set of questions that students have to answer as they read. Once they complete these questions, have the students create hypothesis on how far they could hit a baseball based on what they know. Have students experiment outside if the weather allows with real baseballs and bats (and administration approval)! This project could even be done in conjunction with the physical education department, where students complete the physical part in gym class and the calculations in science class. If this is not an option, have the students play the game. They can practice and adjust the settings of the game until they find the idea conditions for good hits. However, one bit of caution, the game has sound. Encourage students to turn it off or use earbuds or headphones to listen to it.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Baseball and Math - John F. Pattie Elementary School Students
Grades
2 to 5In the Classroom
Use this site as the starting point for individual or group projects. Students can identify and combine a type of math and a subject they enjoy. Have students or student groups create an online, interactive poster known as a "glog," using GlogsterEDU, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Baseball Multiplication - EMGames
Grades
2 to 4tag(s): baseball (37), multiplication (119)
In the Classroom
Share the instructions and activity on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students work with partners to try the baseball "game." Don't forget the headsets!! You may want to list this site on your class webpage or wiki, so students can practice baseball multiplication at home!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Baseball Cards 1887-1914 - Library of Congress
Grades
3 to 10tag(s): baseball (37)
In the Classroom
Share this link on your class website for your baseball card collectors! Use the site to teach about the early days of baseball. Have younger students create a Venn Diagram comparing baseball today with baseball of the 1880s. Have older students create a blog entry from a famous baseball player of the past.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson - The Library of Congress
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): africa (168), african american (104), baseball (37)
In the Classroom
Provide your students with this website and a good 20-minutes of exploration time. Then, have your class write journal entries through the eyes of the African-American baseball stars. Or divide up the class into cooperative learning groups. Have each group research a specific time period and share their finding with the class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Batter's Up Baseball - Prongo.com
Grades
1 to 6tag(s): addition (143), baseball (37), multiplication (119)
In the Classroom
Demonstrate this colorful website on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students work on individual computers at their current math level. Use this website for review before an addition or multiplication quiz on single or double digits. If individual computer are not available, use your interactive whiteboard or projector and play a class game of "around the world" with the math questions.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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A Graphical History of Baseball - Michael Bein
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): baseball (37)
In the Classroom
Share the graphs on your projector or whiteboard, then challenge students to create their own graphical representations to help fans compare baseball players, teams, revenues, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Fun with Baseball Stats - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Grades
6 to 8tag(s): baseball (37), statistics (76)
In the Classroom
Use this ready to go lesson to "take your students to the ball field."Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Physics of Baseball - Alan Nathan, University of Illinois
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): baseball (37)
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Use this website to find content for your science and/or physics lessons. Share the video clips on your interactive whiteboard or projector.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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