What does it take to be
a professional athlete?
(Components of a
Complete Baseball/Softball Player)
Teachers Page
Tony
McDonald
Introduction: The task of this Web Quest is to allow your
students to understand what components an athlete must possess in order to
become a professional baseball/softball player.
In this Webquest your students are going to become a scout or talent
evaluator. This Webquest flows along
with the sport education model. During
the sport education model the students complete a season with each unit in
which the students are player, referees, coaches, journalist, announcers, and
statistician. It allows students to
experience different aspects of the game and different career paths they may
won’t to take. This will allow students
to follow a different avenue during each unit.
They will become the scout or talent evaluate.
The Lesson: Your Student is going to help you build a successful
team. They will use the talent checklist
that is provided on the page to evaluate talent. They will use the websites given to look up
professional or college athletes and evaluate their talent using the stats
given. They will then rank them in what
order you should draft or sign them.
CSO’S: Curriculum
Standard web quest.docxPE.8.2.02: identify characteristics of
skilled performance (e.g., rubric, self/peer assessment)
The Task:
This Web Quest
is designed for eighth grade physical education classes that implement the
sport education model. This Webquest
incorporates reading, math, and statistic comprehension skills. This can be extended to any grade between 7th
and 12th grades. This can
also be extended to any sport that you may be doing in your classroom.
Students will
need to understand the proper skills related to whatever sport they will be
covering. For instance in the sport this
Web Quest covers the students need to understand that athletes need to have
proper hitting, pitching, throwing, and catching skills. They will also need to understand that
players are evaluated before a team allows them to play for them.
Resources: These are the things your students will need
to complete this web quest. It has the
player performance checklist and website to evaluate players on.
Form to evaluate
players: Player Checklist Form
To look up MLB player
States: Major League Baseball
Statistics | MLB.com: Stats
(Type players name in
the search box to left middle of the page or browse for players)
To look up Professional Softball
Player Stats:
http://www.profastpitch.com/stats/archive/2007/
(Click on season, then on the team name and scroll
through player stats.)
To look up college baseball player
Stats: BaseballAmerica.com:
College
(Type players name in the box provided or
browse site for players.)
To look up college softball player
stats: http:NCAA
Softball Statistics
(Browse page to find player stats)
To look up minor
league player Stats: Minor
League Baseball: Stats: Stats
(Click on team to look
at player stats)
Question to
answer on each player on the list: Player
Evaluation Questions
Process:
You are the talent scout for a major league baseball/softball team. We have just been awarded expansion team status. This means that we need to build are team
from the bottom up. We are allowed first
chance at any current major leaguer, but we can only have three which means we
need to look at the minors and at college athletes. We need a roster of at least 25 players, this
includes on player for each positron and six pitchers. You will use the evaluation sheets provided
to come up with 25 players that you think will be best for our team. You must also answer six questions about each
player you provide. Good luck I know I have
the right person for the Job.
This is basically set
up over a unit or season in the sports education model. The student is given the assignment at the begging
of the unit and all questions should be answered. The student is given the entire class period
if they are unable to participate in the season. However if they are participating in the
season then they are allowed to cover this material as homework. They students will be working individually on
this assignment and for each team you have in the season or unit their needs to
be one talent scout. Each talent scout
is allowed to use school or home computers.
They students are given the entire unit to complete this; it must be
turned in at the end of the season.
Assessment/Evaluation: This lesson is based off
of student research. I will expect the
students to describe what kind of team they are building. (I.E. power team,
speed, finesse, pitching, offensive, and defensive.) The students will be graded on whether the
compiled a list of players that fit this style of team or not. Also they will be assessed on who completely
they filled out the player checklists and how extensively they answered the
questions about each player. Also have students keep a record of the time they
spend on this project that must be signed by one of the parents.
|
Question |
Desired
Answer |
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1. Does
this player have stats that prove he/she can have a long career in this
sport? |
Student must provide stats that will prove
player longevity. |
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2. Has
this player had any injuries or surgeries? |
Student must list any recorded injuries or surgeries
of each player on the list. |
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3. Is
this player multifaceted (Can he/she play more than one position)? |
Student must prove if the player can play
other positions other than the one they will be drafted to play. |
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4. Does
this player cause any off the field issue? |
Students must list any off field issues
that has ever made it to the press, including arrests. |
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5. If
so, are they something we can over look, and if no does this player seem like
they could cause issues? |
If the player does the student must
convince you why the player may never do it again and if they haven’t are we
sure they won’t. |
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6. Why
do you think we should sign/draft this player? |
This is completely subjective, the students
is just explaining why they think the player should be on the team. |
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Area of eval. |
10 points |
5 points |
3 points |
Students score |
|
Checklist |
Student completes every part of the
checklist for 20-25 players and partially for the rest |
Student completes every part of the
checklist for 10-19 players and partially for the rest. |
Student completes every part of the
checklist for 1-9 players and partially for the rest. |
|
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Questions |
Student answers question thoroughly and
provides proof. |
Student answers the question thoroughly but
does not provide proof. |
Student answers the questions. |
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Time Log |
2-5 hours a week and parent signature. |
1-3 hours a week with parent signature. |
0-1 hour a week with parent signature. |
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References:
1.
Player
checklist was taken from: http://webpages.shepherd.edu/AMCDON04/Player%20Skills%20Check%20List.htm
2.
Question
and evaluation chart from: Derrick Mears, http://derrick-mears.pbwiki.com/frontpage
3.
Websites
that students use are already listed.
Pictures:
www.stitchgear.com/