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Play Ball! – Or Not…Making a Decision Using Weather Data

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Should the game go on or not? An engaging lesson asks small groups to make a decision using weather data. After analyzing a map, an updated forecast, and radar information, groups have to decide whether to cancel a baseball game. They...
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Scholastic

Jackie Robinson

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners complete a six-page coloring book featuring Major League Baseball's first African American player, Jackie Robinson. To bring the pages to life, scholars follow directions adding color and pictures where directed. 
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Writing a Story About Baseball

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this creative writing worksheet, students examine a color picture of some children playing baseball. Students use the lines provided to write a story about the picture.
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Cone Baseball

For Teachers K - 5th
Students pair up in small groups and use a large bat, batting tee and whiffle ball to practice their baseball batting skills.
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Character Baseball Cards

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Create baseball cards for literary characters with this lesson plan. It introduces students to baseball cards, their components (stats, picture, etc.), and prompts them to draft and publish their own cards based on figures from...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Baseball Cards

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Here is a resource that demonstrates growth and the initial state of an equation. For this case, your class will be looking at baseball collections. How many baseball cards did the collector start out with, and how many were added or...
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Variance and Covariance: How much to do baseball players really make?

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Is baseball really the road to riches? Here, statisticians look at salary data from baseball players and use variance to measure the spread of the data to more accurately answer that question. Note: The salary data provided is from 1994,...
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Baseball Math

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders complete activity pages. In this operations and problem solving activity, 5th graders use the Internet to gather baseball statistics, solve problems and convert units.
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Baseball Vocabulary Game: ESL Beginners

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The most valuable part of this lesson is the instructions to "Vocabulary Baseball," which can be applied to any vocabulary or key terms list. The game uses word boxes and the autobiography of Roberto Clemente, which the lesson describes...
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Teacher's Corner

Hey Batter, Wake Up!

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Does jet lag affect a baseball team's performance in games? Read about how a baseball team's chance of winning a game can be affected by traveling over one, two, and three time zones. Readers then respond to five short answer questions...
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The Best of the Best

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students participate in a discussion about the definition of the word 'hero'. They research baseball players and managers and then engage in a formal debate about the merits of their subjects.
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Shadow Ball

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students view a film about baseball and calculate the time required for a variety of operations that take place in baseball. They use the calculations to stage a credible game of Shadow Ball and reflect on the challenges for arranging...
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Stadium Consultants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct research to determine the operating costs and considerations for a Major League Baseball stadium. They act as consultants and formulate recommendations for ticket prices, player salaries, rainy day play and stadium...
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Baseball

For Students 5th - 6th
For this sports worksheet, students define and discuss eighteen key terms associated with baseball and then locate and circle each one in a word search puzzle.
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Four Corner Running-Baseball

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students demonstrate how to run bases. In this baseball lesson, students are divided into four groups and line up behind a base. Students run the bases and tag the next person in line.
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Prisoners Baseball

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students play the game prisoners baseball. They tag members of the other team and put them into the prison area. Students may b freed by a member of his own team. Students play a variety of games that help them use team work.
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Blackboard Baseball

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders prepare eight questions about the topic they are studying.  In this board baseball review lesson game, questions are rated from easy to difficult and haw many bases students receive. The  students are grouped in two teams...
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PBS

Cardboard History

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
A PBS clip focused on collecting sports memorabilia launches this research project lesson plan. Class members then read Dan Gutman’s Honus and Me in which Wagner’s baseball card is used to time travel. The lesson plan ends with...
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The Outsiders

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders complete a variety of activities related to the first two chapters of the book The Outsiders. They define metaphor, simile, idiom, and hyperbole, and take a vocabulary pre-quiz. In small groups, they write a character...
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Teacher's Corner

The Magic School Bus: Plays Ball Video

For Students 3rd - 5th
Join the Magic School Bus crew as they take a field trip to the baseball field. Learners respond to questions as they watch the video.
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Mathalicious

Out of Left Field

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A baseball trajectory and a parabola seem to make the best pair in real-world quadratic applications. Here is a current baseball resource with questions, discussions, and explorations regarding a quadratic function and home run...
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Chicago White Sox Win World Series

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students react to a series of statements about the World Series, then read a news article about the Chicago White Sox winning the 2005 World Series. For this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and...
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Past and Present: Using baseball statistics to teach math

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars use baseball cards to add up batting average and reinforce math skills. In this batting averages lesson plan, students use old baseball cards to practice different math skills and look at other baseball statistics.
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Eddie Loves Baseball

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this sports reading comprehension worksheet, students read a story about a baseball game and a little boy. Students read the story and answer 5 questions.

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