Introduction
Baseball is a common sport in the USA, South America, and some countries in Asia like South Korea,Japan, and Taiwan.In baseball, pitchers pitch the ball in order to make batters out. Pitching is the startpoint of all plays in baseball.Our topic is how pitchers pitch the ball to make batters out, and how pitchers think with brains.
In this topic, you will learn how pitchers throw pitches, and kinds of pitches.
Task
Your task is knowing how pitchers pitch.It means that you should know kinds of pitches,how to throw those kinds of pitches, how they move.Then, finally you should be able to think how pitcher can strike a batter out in a specific situation.
First, here's the link which shows vocabs in baseball.You need to search what they means by your owns.
http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/lists/c/words.php?f=baseball_1
And this link will attract you into baseball.This link has history, how the game works(rule), famous players ,and also vocabs of baseball.This will let you know basic information in baseball.
https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/sports-baseball.htm
Process
You should take these steps to accomplish this task.
1. Search kinds of pitches in websites. There are different kinds of pitches with different grips. Grips make the movement differ. Even in two fastballs,four-seam fastball and two-seam fastball have different grips.You can search more pitches.
2.Search how each pitch move,how to pitch them,and how each attracts batters to misswing. For example, When forkball is correctly thrown, it suddenly falls down in front of the batter, and curve ball describes a parabola which make batter miss time to hit.
This website and video will surely help you solve these tasks.
http://www.thecompletepitcher.com/different_baseball_pitches.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wf3Y_nFeG0
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3.Based on studies about pitching by this time, think how pitcher will pitch in this situation if you're the pitcher.This situation is actually common in game and very important.
<When the count is 3-2(3 balls and 2 strikes) with a slugger and the score is equal, how will the pitcher pitch?>
Evaluation
1.The number of Kinds of pitches you search and how they move must be over 5.
2.You should answer 3 in process creatively and with some reasons.
Conclusion
Reflect yourself...
1.How much do you think your attitude toward baseball has changed when comparing to before this webquest?
2.What is the thing you're most inpressed by in this class?
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Baseball is a cool sport for students, because you can enjoy baseball with friends if you know only simple rules.I want you to take an interest in this sport after this lesson.