4th Grade Baseball

Exploration:

• The Ballpark in Arlington

• The Official Site of the Texas Rangers

• The Science of Baseball is the Exploratorium's collection of activities and descriptions involving physics, biomechanics, and baseball.

• Baseball: The Game and Beyond - Great info but use the links at the bottom of the page because the pull down menus do not work

• The Science of Baseball a series of videos from The Discovery Channel (Canada) which can be played on your computer.

• Baseball Flight Simulator - simulate the flight of a baseball.

• Baseball Timeline

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Lessons and WebQuests:

• Baseball multiplication - a game to play in class 
• SCORE: Teacher Guide--Gary Soto Short Stories Baseball In April  Student activity #1 

• "Play Ball" WebQuest - find out more in-depth information on professional baseball parks. The purpose is to use research, language arts, math, and problem solving skills to compare various stadiums.

• Take Me Out To The Ball Game - A WebQuest for 4th Grade Math and Social Studies
• Take Me Out to the Ballgame... A Baseball WebQuest
• History of Baseball WebQuest
  

Activities:

• Eddie Loves Baseball - Reading comprehension story

• Mathletics? - Math + Athletics = Mathletics 
  Every sport uses numbers in some way, whether it's for scoring, determining averages, or figuring percentages, and when numbers are involved, it usually means math is as well.

• Math Baseball from FunBrain.com

• Batter's Up Baseball - Math Games

• Baseball Fun - from Kids Domain
  

Other:

• Baseball Poetry - hear some familiar voices read these poems

• Abbot and Costello's: Who's On First Script

• Abbot and Costello's: Who's On First - audio file

• Baseball Quotes

• Standard Measurements in Baseball

• Ritter, John H. - official site for this award-winning baseball novelist. Get to know him and read chapters from his books like Choosing up Sides and Over the Wall.
  Read an excerpt from Choosing Up Sides
  Read an excerpt from Over The Wall

• Take Me Out To the Ball Game- music and words

Print and use from abcteach:

• Baseball Alliterations

• Baseball is...

• Baseball Jersey

• Baseball KWL chart

• Baseball Math Problem Solving

• Baseball Organizer

• Baseball Poem Form Diamonte
  Baseball Similes

• Baseball Vocabulary

• Creative Writing Prompts

• Crossword Puzzle

• Make your own personal trading card

• Printable Theme Signs Baseball

• Teams Word Search

• Word Search 1

• Word Search  2

• Writing paper

• Writing paper 2

A few baseball books we have in the Walker library:

• A picture book of Jackie Robinson / by David A. Adler
• Arthur makes the team / by Marc Brown
• Baseball : batting / by Bryant Lloyd
• Baseball : field & equipment / by Bryant Lloyd
• Baseball : pitching / by Bryant Lloyd
• Baseball : rules of the game / by Bryant Lloyd
• Baseball : run, throw & catch / by Bryant Lloyd
• Baseball : the positions / by Bryant Lloyd
• Baseball ballerina / by Kathryn Cristaldi
• Baseball fever / by Johanna Hurwitz
• Baseball in the barrios / by Henry Horenstein
• Baseball's best : five true stories / by Andrew Gutelle
• Baseball's biggest bloopers : the games that got away / by Dan Gutman
• Baseball's greatest games / by Dan Gutman
• Baseball's greatest pitchers / by S.A. Kramer
• Bases loaded / by Dean Hughes
• Cal Ripken, Jr. : my story / by Cal Ripken, Jr
• Cam Jansen and the mystery of the Babe Ruth baseball / by David A. Adler 
• Casey at the bat / by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
• Get ready to play tee ball / text and photographs by Jan Cheripko
• Home run : the story of Babe Ruth / by Robert Burleigh
• Jackie & me : a baseball card adventure / by Dan Gutman
• Jackie Robinson / by Kenneth Rudeen
• Lou Gehrig : the luckiest man / by David A. Adler
• Make-believe ball player / ill. by Tom Newsom.
• Mark McGwire / by Terri Dougherty
• No easy out / by Dean Hughes
• Pee Wees on first / by Judy Delton
• Play ball, Amelia Bedelia / story by Peggy Parish
• Playing right field / by Willy Welch
• Playoff dreams / by Fred Bowen 
• Prime-time pitcher / by Matt Christopher
• Sammy Sosa / by Terri Dougherty
• Skinnybones / by Barbara Park
• The Berenstain Bears play ball / by Stan & Jan Berenstain
• The case of the stolen baseball cards / by James Preller
• The golden glove / by Fred Bowen
• Young Cam Jansen and the baseball mystery / by David A. Adler