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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Batting Practice: Using Math to Calculate Baseball Statistics

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students calculate and record batting average, hits, and at bats. In this Batting Practice: Using Math to Calculate Baseball Statistics lesson, students utilize mathematical formulas to determine the career statistics of baseball player...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Play Ball

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students calculate baseball statistics and ball field dimensions. For this Pythagorean Theorem, percentages and metric conversion lesson, students are given formulas to find earned run and batting averages for White Sox baseball players....
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Activity
Rice University

What Should You Wear In Antarctica?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students weigh various battings and feathers. They make sure to have the same weight of each type of insulations. Students wrap one bottle of warm water in each of the two insulations. They measure the temperature of each bottle,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Probability

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders relate real life events with probability. In this probability lesson, 8th graders investigate using coin toss, discuss NBA shooting percentages and MLB batting averages.  Students also complete a worksheet.
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Activity
Education World

Every Day Edit - "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Hank Aaron. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sports Helmets and Impact Testing of Polymers

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students examine the importance of good quality safety gear. In this investigative lesson, students will tests various polymers, collect data, and analyze the data to determine which polymer is best for safety helmets. They will design a...
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Lesson Plan
National First Ladies' Library

Saluting Babe Ruth, the Bambino

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For first-hand research experience, learners study the achievements of baseball hero, Babe Ruth. They gain a better understanding of the game, especially the role of a home run. They then use their research findings to create...
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Curated OER

What Should You Wear in Antarctica?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders experiment to see what would make a good coat for being in a climate that is freezing. They test to see what material makes the best insulation for coats.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Decimal Stories

For Students 4th - 5th
In this decimal worksheet, learners fill in decimal numbers in a story, choosing from a "decimal box" at the top of the page, filling in blanks so that the story makes sense. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Birds Observed by Lewis and Clark

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners study and identify birds that Lewis and Clark saw on the Corp Of Discovery in ND. They create a PowerPoint on the characteristics and habitats of that bird and key information on how to identify them.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chiro Suzuki

For Students 4th - 8th
For this famous leaders worksheet, students read a passage about Chiro Suzuki and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

An Introduction to Elementary Statistics

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students explain and appreciate the use of statistics in everyday life. They define basic terms used in statistics and compute simple measures of central tendency.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Millennium Home Run Contest

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the history of baseball and Babe Ruth. They work on their hitting skills and have a home run contest. They review the cues for successfully hitting a ball off a tee into the air. They get three swings of the bat and...
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Website
Other

Pete Rose's Official Website

For Students 9th - 10th
This official website features a section on all Pete Rose's MLB records. It has a biography of the hitter. It also has a form for requesting an appearance by Pete Rose.
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Handout
Black Past

Black Past: Aaron, Henry Louis "Hank"

For Students 9th - 10th
In this encyclopedia entry you can read about the career of Hank Aaron who broke the home run record of Babe Ruth. There are links to websites that will give you more information.