Resources for this Week's News-2-You: Jackie Robinson

General

• The Official Jackie Robinson Site
• The TIME 100
  

Multi-Media

• Free BrainPop Movie (this one is not longer free as of 2/3/09 sorry)
  
• CNN (video clip)
• MLB (video and speech clips)
  
• Biography Channel (video)
• Adapted Learning Activity (you must be logged in)
  

Biographies

• Time for Kids
• My Hero

Timelines

• Scholastic

PowerPoints

• Jackie Robinson
• Jackie Robinson

Educational Readings/Worksheets

• ABC Teach (members only)
• Ed Helper

Sensory Ideas

• switch activated "Take me out to the ball game"
• sensory box filled with sand, bases or pieces of bases, the soles of old baseball cleats, baseball caps (especially Dogders since that is what Jackie Robinson played for) baseballs, and bats (or miniatures of these things)
• switch activated slide shows set to music of baseball items, players and games

Adaptive PE

• Baseball of course, throwing baseballs, swinging a bat, hitting a ball off a T of some kind (try a large traffic cone)

Music

• Take Me Out to the Ball Game
• National Anthem
• See the song list from this CD on Amazon for more ideas