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Widget's Batting Lesson - Teacher Resource
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Un-Common Common Core and Cooperative NASPE StandardsCoby and his friends don’t have enough players for tee ball so they call on Widget, Coby’s alien friend. The children learn that coaching Widget takes patience and know-how in this whimsical story your students are sure to love. The lessons included in ”Widget’s Batting Lesson” teach striking skills through cooperative learning lessons. Students are learning how to bat by learning how to coach.
Widget's Batting Lesson
Grades K-3
How it works:
Step 1 - Teacher reads “Widget’s Batting Lesson.”
Step 2 - Teacher introduces the skills, strategies and activities.
Step 3 - Children use their imaginations to act out the story
while practicing the skills.
What is included:
A fictional story.
Three comprehensive and easy-to-implement lesson plans to teach batting skills and coaching cues.
Rubrics for batting and coaching.
What are the results:
Intrinsically motivated children, enthusiastically engaged in activity, while learning to hit a ball.
Lesson 1 Home Run Derby
Students practice hitting off a batting tee while their teammates learn to coach by giving verbal cues to check the hitter's batting stance.
Lesson 2 Scoring
Students practice hitting and scoring when singles, doubles, triples and home runs are added to the lesson.
Lesson 3 Fielding
Students learn to field a hit ball and the different means of putting a runner "out."
Grades K-3
How it works:
Step 1 - Teacher reads “Widget’s Batting Lesson.”
Step 2 - Teacher introduces the skills, strategies and activities.
Step 3 - Children use their imaginations to act out the story
while practicing the skills.
What is included:
A fictional story.
Three comprehensive and easy-to-implement lesson plans to teach batting skills and coaching cues.
Rubrics for batting and coaching.
What are the results:
Intrinsically motivated children, enthusiastically engaged in activity, while learning to hit a ball.
Lesson 1 Home Run Derby
Students practice hitting off a batting tee while their teammates learn to coach by giving verbal cues to check the hitter's batting stance.
Lesson 2 Scoring
Students practice hitting and scoring when singles, doubles, triples and home runs are added to the lesson.
Lesson 3 Fielding
Students learn to field a hit ball and the different means of putting a runner "out."