baseball

=Baseball= In May 2001 during a baseball game in Massachusetts, Wellesley high school pitcher Billy Hughto was struck in the head by a line drive off an aluminum bat. Hughto's skull was cracked and an artery was severed, forcing doctors to perform emergency surgery that required a set of screws to hold his shattered skull together. Coaches and parents, believing that balls hit from aluminum bats are significantly more dangerous, lobbied the league to switch to conventional wooden bats.

Imagine that you are a member of a task force that was formed by the board of directors for the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association for the purposes of investigating the impact on safety, game statistics, and economics if high school baseball were to switch from aluminum bats to wooden bats. The board asks your committee for a report that is based, when possible, on quantitative and objective data.

See which bat hits them further. (KAH - this is probably more science) || Discuss velocity and rates || Properties of matter || Write a persuasive essay arguing for or against || The effects of sports on your community || Use digital video to record the hitting with each bat and use slow motion to emphasize the impact. May find this on the web || statistics || Force and mass of ball and bat || Persuasive || Learn about the history of sports as a part of popular American culture (specifically baseball) || Use Excel to chart data. || response to injuries || Write a narrative from the perspective of someone involved in the incident || research and debate both kinds of bats || researching statistics || baseball type game for it. || Statistics || Cut open base- balls study makeup || Persuasive essay || Analyze/compare injuries from aluminum bats ||  || wooden bats || Percentages || material testing || Persuasive letter ||  ||   || presenting data ||  ||   || bats ||  ||   ||   ||   || and preparing graphs ||  ||   ||   ||   || Back to Content Ideas
 * = ==Engineering== ||= ==Math== ||= ==Science== ||= ==Language Arts== ||= ==Social Studies== ||= ==Library Media/Technology== ||
 * Each kid gets to hit a baseball.
 * Design baseballs - make up || Graph bats/teams/
 * Design bats || Cost of bats || Human body's
 * Pick a disability and design a
 * Design aluminum and
 * || Data collection || presenting data || Write report
 * || Cost analysis of
 * || gathering statistics