TABLE OF CONTENTS SCIENCE
Baseball in Education ...... 01 01. Friction: objects sliding against each other Gravity: acts like a magnet, pulls objects together Science ...... 02 Label the pictures below with these terms: Friction, gravity
Game Day Facts & Statistics ...... 03
History and Geography of the Marauders ...... 05
Math of Baseball ...... 07
English ...... 09
FRICTION GRAVITY Physical Education ...... 10 A. ______B. ______
02. What measurement is used for determining how fast a baseball is going? Spanish ...... 11 ______MILES PER HOUR
BASEBALL IN EDUCATION 03. Every baseball is rubbed with a special mud before it is used. Why do you think this is done? ______ADDING THE MUD CREATES A ROUGHER SURFACE WHICH PROVIDES
The Bradenton Marauders Learn at LECOM Park Education Day program is an annual event designed ______MORE FRICTION FOR A BETTER GRIP OF THE BALL. to show students that baseball can be educational and learning can be fun by applying America’s favorite pastime to subjects like math, science, and social studies.
02 GAME DAY FACTS AND STATISTICS
04. Record the following two times: 08. Add the jersey numbers of the Marauders players from today’s lineup. ______Starting time of game: ______Ending time of game: ______09. Write the jersey numbers of the Marauders players from today’s lineup in order Find out how long the game took to play. (Find the elapsed time.): ______from least to greatest.
______05. Record the number of runs combined for both teams for each inning. Use tally marks to complete the table. 10. What are these starting pitchers ERAs? Use the formula to help you fnish the chart. Round to the nearest hundredth. Inning 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TOTAL
Total Number Earned Runs Allowed of Runs ERA = 9 x Innings Pitched
06. Graph the total number of runs after your return to school. (Bar graph or pictograph) Jersey Earned Run Average Player Innings Pitched (IP) Earned Runs (ER) Number (ERA)
07. Fill in the Marauders Lineup Card. 52 Tanner Anderson 11.1 8 6.49 45 Gerrit Cole 200.1 64 2.89 43 Steven Brault 91.2 47 4.64 Batting Jersey Batting Batting Average Player Position Order Number Average as a Fraction 24 Tyler Glasnow 111.2 53 4.29 1. 68 Clay Holmes 26.1 20 6.9 2. 49 Nick Kingham 76 44 5.21 3. 39 Chad Kuhl 85 43 4.55 4. 51 Alex McRae 6.1 4 5.9 5. 66 Devydas Neverauskas 27 24 8 6. 65 Casey Sadler 4.1 4 8.78 7. 76 Adrian Sampson 23 11 4.3 8. 37 Edgar Santana 66.1 24 3.27 9. 50 Jameson Taillon 191 68 3.2
57 Trevor Williams 170.2 59 3.12
03 04 Below is a list of past and present Marauders players and the country or state they were originally HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE MARAUDERS from. Use the maps on the left page to locate each country or state, then record the number of the location in the blanks below.
UNITED STATES
11. ______32 Alabama Clay Holmes 21. ______18 Texas Josh Bell Kyle McPherson Victor Black Colten Brewer 12. ______7 California Stephen Brault Brock Holt Shane Carle Nick Kingham Gerrit Cole Alex Dickerson 22. ______37 Virginia John Bormann Tyler Glasnow Robbie Grossman 23. ______2 Washington Reese McGuire Chad Kuhl Adrian Sampson Kevin Kramer Robert Stock Jordan Luplow Duke Welker Kevin Newman Stephen Tarpley 24. ______24 Wisconsin Alex Mcrae Trevor Williams Daniel Zamora
13. ______34 Florida Tanner Anderson COUNTRIES Max Moroff Tony Sanchez 25. ______53 Dominican Jayson Aquino Jameson Taillon Republic Willy García Alen Hanson 14. ______33 Georgia Brandon Cumpton Starling Marte Adam Frazier Gregory Polanco Austin Meadows Pablo Reyes 66 Hunter Strickland Joely Rodríguez Edgar Santana 15. ______16 Kansas Jacob Stallings 26. ______66 Lithuania Dovydas Neverauskas 16. ______29 Kentucky Nathan Adcock 27. ______67 South Africa Gift Ngoepe 17. ______42 New Hampshire Jeff Locke 28. ______55 Venezuela Ramon Cabrera 18. ______28 Ohio Eric Fryer Elias Díaz 17 Diego Moreno 19. ______Oklahoma JaCoby Jones José Osuna Casey Sadler
20. ______30 Tennessee Phillip Irwin Bryan Morris
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05 06 MATH OF BASEBALL
58 INCHES 29. Identify the geometric shape of the following parts of the baseball feld. 31. Calculate the perimeter of home plate. (Measurements are in inches) Choose from: circle, square, rectangle, and pentagon (Perimeter = sum of all sides) CIRCLE A. Pitching Area ______17” B. 1st Base ______SQUARE C. Home Plate ______PENTAGON D. Batter’s Box ______RECTANGLE 8.5” 8.5” E. Batter’s Warm-up Area ______CIRCLE
30. Use the graph in the batting zone to plot the following pitches from today’s starting pitcher. Assume his frst four pitches land at the following coordinates. Plot the following locations: A(3, 4), B(1, 2), C(6, 3), D(3,3) 12” 12”
y
6 32. Here are the distances to the outfeld wall from home plate on the diagram below.
400’ 5 375’ 375’
4 A
D C 3 335’ 335’
2 B
1
x 1 2 3 4 5 6
A. What is the mean (average distance) of the distances to the outfeld wall? 364 FEET B. What is the median (middle value) of the distances to the outfeld wall? 375 FEET C. What is the mode (most frequent) distance to the outfeld wall? 335 AND 375 FEET
07 08 ENGLISH PHYSICAL EDUCATION
33. Alliteration: The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. ACTIVE WARM-UPS
You can make many memorable moments with the Marauders. Before practice, baseball players start out with warm-ups to prepare for the game. Below are How is this an example of alliteration? warm-ups you can do on your own. Remember, all of these exercises are designed to be an easy
______THE REPETITION OF THE BEGINNING LETTER OF EACH WORD warm-up for your body — no need to push too hard!
34. Prefx: Groups of letters that can be placed before a word to alter its meaning. Here are a few exercises you can do during the game: The prefx re- means again. What word on the scoreboard refers to a play shown again?
______REPLAY 10 jumping jacks for every Double Play
10 squats for every Home Run 35. Multiple Meaning Words: A word that has several meanings depending on how it is used in a sentence. Circle the sentence in which the word “park” is used in the same way as LECOM Park. 30 second jog in place for a Triple or Double
A. When we get to the mall, Mom will park her car. 10 arm circles forward & backward during a pitching change B. We are going to have a picnic at the park.
36. Metaphor: The comparison of two unlike things in which no words of comparison (like or as) Here are a few exercises you can do at home: are used (e.g., The speech gave me food for thought.). The grass is a green carpet for the players. What does this metaphor suggest? Toe Touches 15 seconds – feet spread apart, rotate grabbing ankle/foot for duration. ______THE GRASS IS A SOFT AND PLUSH FOR THE PLAYERS
Athletic Position Squat 10 seconds – shoulder width apart (skip position), 37. Compound Words: The result of two words being joined. What compound words can you fnd squat down keeping heels fat on the ground. in LECOM Park? (They may be printed or objects.) Ex. Baseball
10 yards – stay tall and look straight ahead while jogging, ______BALLPARK, SCOREBOARD, FIREWORK, ETC. High Knees bringing knees up to chest.
38. Text Structure: The author’s method of structuring a text. If you were to interview one of the Sideways Skip 10 yards – almost like a shuffe, skip sideways Marauder’s players, how would you organize the text?
A. Cause and Effect Skip 15 yards – straight ahead, moving your arms B. Chronological Order C. Question/Answer D. Order of Importance
09 10 SPANISH AUTOGRAPHS
Español es Divertido!
39. Me llamo ______.STUDENT NAME (your name)
40. Tengo ______STUDENT AGE años. (your age)
41. Soy de ______.WHERE STUDENT IS FROM (where you are from)
Below, the feld map lists the names of positions on the feld in Spanish. Use your knowledge of baseball positions to match up the letter on the feld to the English position names on the right.
42. ______H Catcher 43. ______G Pitcher 44. ______I Short Stop D. Jardinero Central 45. ______F First Base 46. ______A Scond Base 47. ______E Third Base C. Jardinero Izquirerdo B. Jardinero Derecho 48. ______B Right Fielder 49. ______D Center Fielder I. Campacorto 50. ______C Left Fielder A. Segunda Base
F. Primera Base E. Teracera G. Lanzador
H. Receptor
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