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 ...... 07

English ...... 09

Physical Education ...... 10 A. ______B. ______

02. What measurement is used for determining how fast a baseball is going? Spanish ...... 11 ______

BASEBALL IN EDUCATION 03. Every baseball is rubbed with a special mud before it is used. Why do you think this is done? ______

The Learn at LECOM Park Education Day program is an annual event designed ______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 Average Player Innings Pitched (IP) Earned Runs (ER) Number (ERA)

07. Fill in the Marauders Lineup Card. 52 Tanner Anderson 11.1 8 45 200.1 64

43 91.2 47 Batting Jersey Batting Batting Average Player Position Order Number Average as a Fraction 24 Tyler Glasnow 111.2 53 1. 68 26.1 20 2. 49 Nick Kingham 76 44 3. 39 85 43 4. 51 Alex McRae 6.1 4 5. 66 Devydas Neverauskas 27 24 6. 65 Casey Sadler 4.1 4 7. 76 Adrian Sampson 23 11 8. 37 Edgar Santana 66.1 24 9. 50 191 68

57 Trevor Williams 170.2 59

03 04 Below is a list of Marauders in the Majors players and the country or state they were originally from. HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE MARAUDERS 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. ______Alabama Clay Holmes 21. ______Texas Josh Bell Kyle McPherson Victor Black Colten Brewer 12. ______California Stephen Brault Brock Holt Shane Carle Nick Kingham Gerrit Cole Alex Dickerson 22. ______Virginia John Bormann Tyler Glasnow Robbie Grossman 23. ______Washington Reese McGuire Chad Kuhl Adrian Sampson Kevin Kramer Robert Stock Jordan Luplow Duke Welker Stephen Tarpley 24. ______Wisconsin Alex Mcrae Trevor Williams Daniel Zamora

13. ______Florida Tanner Anderson COUNTRIES Max Moroff 25. ______Dominican Jayson Aquino Jameson Taillon Republic Willy García Alen Hanson 14. ______Georgia Brandon Cumpton Starling Marte Pablo Reyes 66 Hunter Strickland Joely Rodríguez Edgar Santana 15. ______Kansas 26. ______Lithuania Dovydas Neverauskas 16. ______Kentucky Nathan Adcock 27. ______South Africa Gift Ngoepe 17. ______New Hampshire Jeff Locke 28. ______Venezuela Ramon Cabrera 18. ______Ohio Eric Fryer Elias Díaz Diego Moreno 19. ______Oklahoma JaCoby Jones José Osuna Casey Sadler

20. ______Tennessee Phillip Irwin Bryan Morris

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05 06 MATH OF BASEBALL

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)

A. Pitching Area ______17” B. 1st Base ______C. Home Plate ______D. Batter’s Box ______8.5” 8.5” E. Batter’s Warm-up Area ______

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

3 335’ 335’

2

1

x 1 2 3 4 5 6

A. What is the mean (average distance) of the distances to the outfeld wall? B. What is the median (middle value) of the distances to the outfeld wall? C. What is the mode (most frequent) distance to the outfeld wall?

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

______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?

______10 jumping jacks for every Play

10 squats for every 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. ______

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, ______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 ______. (your name)

40. Tengo ______años. (your age)

41. Soy de ______. (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. ______Catcher 43. ______Pitcher 44. ______Short Stop D. Jardinero Central 45. ______First Base 46. ______Scond Base 47. ______Third Base C. Jardinero Izquirerdo B. Jardinero Derecho 48. ______Right Fielder 49. ______Center Fielder I. Campacorto 50. ______Left Fielder A. Segunda Base

F. Primera Base E. Teracera G. Lanzador

H. Receptor

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