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Basketball

Ellen Labrecque (author)

Publisher: Cherry Lake Publishing ISBN: 9781602794054

In the complex world of the 21st century, the ability to use innovation to solve problems or make products better is a critical skill for kids to possess. This book uses a sport kid's love, basketball, to highlight how innovation has been used to make the game and the people who play them better.

Baseball

Michael Teitelbaum (author)

Publisher: Cherry Lake Publishing ISBN: 9781602794047

In the complex world of the 21st century, the ability to use innovation to solve problems or make products better is a critical skill for kids to possess. This book uses a sport kid's love, baseball, to highlight how innovation has been used to make the game and the people who play them better.

Sports Broadcasting

Michael Teitelbaum (author)

Publisher: Cherry Lake Publishing ISBN: 9781602793651

In 1920, the first collegiate football game was broadcast on radio. Today, many sports actually allow viewers to control which camera picture they see. How has this innovation occurred? This book uses a familiar topic, sports broadcasting, to introduce kids to the concept of innovation and its impact on their everyday life

The 1980 U.S. Olympic Boycott

Martin Gitlin (author)

Publisher: Cherry Lake Publishing ISBN: 9781624317170

This book relays the factual details of the 1980 U.S. Olympic boycott. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a Soviet athlete, a U.S. athlete, and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.