Introduction
THE HISTORY OF BASEBALL
Do you love to sit back and watch your favorite sport, or play with friends? Well if so then your at the right place! Because you were just picked to be the Twins 1st basemen. Hi! I'm Joe Mauer, the Minnesota Twins 1st basemen. I'm retiring and need someone to take my place, do you want to be the next 1st basemen? Yes? Ok then your going to have to fill out this application. It just has a few questions about baseball.
Click on the Task bar for the application.
Task
APPLICATION QUIZ FOR BASEBALL
1. When was Baseball invented? _________
2. Who was the first person to hit a homerun? ___________
3. Who was the founder of the Twins? _____________
4. What are the differences between baseball and softball?__________
5. About and exacly how old is baseball? ______________
Bonus Question:What is the German,French,italian, and Russian word for Baseball?__________
Signature:___________
Process
To answer these questions you will need a paper and pencil/pen.
Here are some websites to help you:
To answer Q. 5 subtract the year that your in now with the year Baseball was invented. To find out when it was invented look back at your answer for Q. 1.
The bonus question is optinal, but if you want to do it you will have to look it up yourself. Lets see how good your research skills are. CLICK HERE FOR GOOGLE
Evaluation
PROJECT TIME
I want you to creat a powerpoint with the information you've gathered.
I suggest you make one slide for each piece of information so if you present your powerpoint to anyone they don't get confused.
If you decided to do the bonus question you can make a slide for that too if you want.
Conclusion
Congratulations you've passed the application quiz!!!
You are now the Minnesota Twins pitcher and will start in June. I wish you good luck and I hope you do your best. Thank you for doing my webquest and I hope you had fun creating a powerpoint. I also hope you learned who invented baseball, How old it is, and other things about its history. I encourage you to make your own webquest so I can do yours.
Credits
I'ed like to thank these websites for providing the information needed for this webquest:
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-baseball
http://www.answers.com/Q/Who_was_the_first_person_to_every_hit_a_home_run
http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/min/history/timeline.jsp
http://softball.isport.com/softball-guides/the-difference-between-baseball-softball