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Baseball Card
Creative Writing and Statistics Project

Project Overview
During the next unit, students will create a baseball card hitting on the standards from Mr. Shives sixth grade math class, curriculum from Mr. Gaylord’s creative writing elective, and their own interests in art. Students will create a fictitious player, creating his name, position, team, image and back story or player profile. Students will then work through a unit of statistics where they will come up with their player’s stats and analyze the significance and meaning of this data. Students will complete the project by taking their player’s profile and statistics and combining the two to make their very own baseball card.

Essential Questions
Creative Writing
What is the best way to organize and write a descriptive essay?

Math
How can I use my knowledge of statistics to make predictions for the future?

Student Objectives
Creative Writing
Students will be able to write a descriptive essay about a fictitious athlete from their own imagination by building upon the editing process, and breaking their writings into workable goals.
Students will be able to write a grammatically correct sentence by working through the editing process and helping other students revise.
By creating a descriptive essay, students will be able to express their creativity in a constructive way.

Math
Students will be able to gather statistics on an athlete.
Students will compute the average per year of given statistics.
Students will graph the information they collect and make predictions based on the current trend.


Baseball Card Requirements
Image
Name
Position
Hometown
College
Player Profile/Background Story


Benchmarks
Math:
Math 6 PS 1.1
Math 6 MR 1.2

Formulas and statistics finished on Baseball Card October 29, 2010
Player Profile Finished October 29, 2010
Player Narrative and Legend Rough Draft  November 4, 2010
Player Picture Done November 9
Final Product November 12, 2010
Final Product
A baseball card that expresses students ability to create from scratch, write a descriptive essay, and prove he or she can analyze and use statistical formulas.