Unit 4 Baseball Card Project
For this U.S. History activity, you are going to create and design a baseball card featuring
an important individual from unit 4. The sport of baseball was becoming the National Pastime
during this time period and became a major feature of many American lives. Your task in
creating your Baseball Card will need to contain these requirements.
On the front side of your baseball card, you will create a design including these requirements
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Your individual’s name
1 large picture of your individual
1 small picture of your individual
What was your individual known for…actor, soldier, athlete, politician, musician, artist,
author, etc?
On the back side of your baseball card, you will create a design and must include these “stats.”
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Your individual’s name
1 picture of your individual
3 interesting facts about your individual that are important during this time period.
1 major accomplishment and its impact in history that your individual was involved in
Why was your individual important during this time?
Individuals that will be used for the Unit 4 Baseball Card project
1. Babe Ruth
2. Woodrow Wilson
3. Henry Ford
4. Charlie Chaplin
5. Louis Armstrong
6. Rudolph Valentino
7. Warren G. Harding
8. Calvin Coolidge
9. Herbert Hoover
10. Knute Rockne
11. Al Capone
12. Charles Lindbergh
Baseball Card
Rubric
Meets Basic
Requirements
Organization &
Preparation
Knowledge &
Concept of the
Topic
Creativity of the
Product
Visual Expression
of Ideas
13. John “Black Jack” Pershing
14. Margaret Sanger
15. Langston Hughes
16. Duke Ellington
17. Alexander Fleming
18. Jack Dempsey
19. Red Grange
20. Earnest Hemingway
21. Sinclair Lewis
22. Agatha Christie
23. Walter Hagen
24. Harry Houdini
25. Eddie Rickenbacker
26. Coco Chanel
27. Bessie Smith
28. George Washington Carver
29. Norman Rockwell
30. J. Edgar Hoover
31. Walt Disney
32. Jeanette Rankin
33. Albert Einstein
34. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
35. Marcus Garvey
36. Al Jolson
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5-4
3-2
1-0
Student’s project
follows all
instruction points.
Student’s project is
missing a minor
requirement from
instructions
Student’s project is
missing a major
requirement
Student’s project
does not conform
to more than one
major requirement
The baseball card is
of excellent quality
& it’s apparent that
the student spent
time preparing it.
The baseball card
demonstrates higher
level understanding
of an issue.
The baseball card is
of good quality and it
is apparent that the
student spent some
time.
The baseball card
is of fair quality
and seems rushed.
The baseball card
demonstrates an
understanding of
an issue.
The baseball card
demonstrates
recognition of an
issue but not a clear
understanding.
The baseball card
appears to have been
hastily created and
appears messy or
disorganized.
The baseball card
demonstrates that the
student is still
struggling to
understand the issue.
The baseball card’s
style, color, &
impact align
perfectly w/the
students’ ideas.
The baseball card’s
style, color, and
impact align well
with the students
ideas.
The baseball card’s
style, color, and
impact do not align
well with the
students ideas.
The baseball card’s
style, color, and
impact seem
disjointed and
rushed.
The baseball card is
rich with symbolism.
The message goes
beyond a statement
and reflects an indepth opinion
answering all of the
“questions to
answer.”
The baseball card is
rich with symbolism.
The message goes
beyond a statement
and reflects an indepth opinion
answering one of the
“questions to
answer.”
The baseball card
demonstrates little
symbolism. The
message does not
really go beyond a
statement and does
not reflect an indepth opinion
answering more than
one of the “questions
to answer.”
The baseball card
demonstrates little to
no symbolism. The
message does not
really go beyond a
statement and does
not reflect an indepth opinion.
Point Breakdown=50 Points
30 Points=Individual student’s baseball card project
20 Points=Completion of part II of project (trading baseball cards & completion of handout)
Unit 4 Baseball Card Project—Part II
Your next task is to trade your baseball card with 10 other individuals in your class. You will examine your
classmate’s baseball card and hopefully learn a little more about their individual. You will need to complete
this handout by adding the individual’s name and two significant facts written in complete sentences as well.
Unit 4 Individuals
Example:
Alice Paul
Significant Fact #1
Leader of the National Woman's party
that campaigned for an equal rights
amendment to the Constitution.
Significant Fact #2
She opposed legislation protecting
women workers because such laws
implied women's inferiority.