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Striking - Toss and Hit
Help your young athletes practice hitting a ball with these fun activities. Bring in all kinds of soft bats and soft balls. Experiment with hitting balls using different size bats. Work on hand-eye coordination. Teach them the optimum...
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ACE Expert English Homework
In this positions learning exercise, students read descriptions of where the ball is around a box and then draw pictures of where a cat is beside a chair. Students draw 8 pictures and answer 16 position questions.
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Kicking: Drop Punt
Students kick a drop punt. In this physical education skills lesson, students participate in a series of skill activities fostering eye-foot coordination. Students practice kicking a drop punt to the coach, a partner and a target.
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Race the Track! Jump the Gap
Students record data of using a track system with variables and how those variables affect a ball used in the track. In this track lesson plan, students design their own track in groups, test the ball's rates of speed, and record their...
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Bones and Joints
In this bones and joints worksheet, students build a model of an arm with sticks, balls, and caps to see how bones and joints work. Students also answer 4 questions.
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Pre-School Ball Run
Students demonstrate force and motion by rolling a ball through a tube. In this motion lesson students explore what happens to the ball when it is rolled with other balls of various sizes, weights, and textures.
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First Word: Ball
In this word recognition activity, students trace the word ball, write it independently, and identify it in a group of other words.
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Time Bomb
Students engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the concept of playing a game of tag with four players throwing balls at kids in the center. Those who are hit with the ball are out of the game until there are four kids...
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Central Europe’s Glorious Ball Season Starts
Ninth graders examine the Ball season in Europe. In this European Culture ESL activity, 9th graders read an article and answer guided reading questions. Students complete a graphic organizer on going to a ball.
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Where Will It Go?
Students predict the path of a ball bouncing off an object. In this physics activity, students conduct the rolling ball experiment to test their prediction. They perform several trials for accuracy.
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Build a Better Bouncer
Students create the best bouncing ball possible using basic substances. In this chemistry lesson, students describe the effect of additives to polymers. They graph and analyze their results.
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The Largest Objects Letter B
For this basic mathematics worksheet, students identify and color the largest object pictured in each box. There are four boxes with various objects in them that start with the letter b.
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Magic Ball
Using the magic ball, students identify the different directions. They follow the movements of the teacher with the magic ball.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: The Height Limits and Linearity of Bouncy Balls
You might think that plants and animals have little in common with batteries, springs, or slingshots, but they actually do have something in common. Both living and non-living things store and transfer energy from one form to another. In...
Other
The Preachers Corner: The Vow Jephthah Made
This gives a point by point description of Jephthah's vow to the Lord in the book of Judges.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Thomas Ball
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on sculptor Thomas Ball. The site, in addition to the biographical information, provides a listing of his works as displayed at the...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Baseball for Kids: Equipment
Kids learn about the baseball equipment such as the ball, bat, cap, jersey, gloves, and catcher's gear.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Soccer: Glossary of Terms and Definitions
Meaning of terms used in the sport of soccer. Position names described.
Text Project
Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Putting Two Words Together [Pdf]
This FYI (Volume 3, Issue 2) article discusses multiple meanings for the word ball including sports (baseball), round (eyeball), and no connection to either of the others (ballroom).
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Fast Break
In this poem, a basketball going through a net via a fast break, is shared within the seventeen, two-line stanzas.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Baseball: Learn All About the Sport Baseball
Find out about baseball player positions, rules, terms, and strategy of the game on this webpage.
Other
Sportsplex Operators & Developers Association: Homepage
Find the latest developments of SODA along with current and archived newsletters.
Other
Steve Timmons
This site gives a brief overview of Steve Timmons and provides a summary of his personal data. It also states that he has been inducted into volleyball's hall of fame.
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Language Guide: Los Ninos
Interactive vocabulary words are heard when the mouse is moved over pictures that depict things with which children might play. Some vocabulary words can be categorized as toys while others as playground equipment.