Baseball

6th Grade, Research and Inquiry Activities

1. Connect to this link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bbhome.html.

2. Browse the collection of baseball cards from different eras and teams.

3. Imagine you are a baseball player from one of the periods shown. Design your own baseball card for a specific era. You can use a computer design progam or sketch by hand.

For information about the science behind baseball, go to http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/

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