Yankee Stadium's Last Game

The Yankees played their last game in Yankees Stadium yesterday.

Watch this video!!

Questions for Younger Children

• Where is your favorite place to play? Why do you like playing in this place so much? Is there anything specific that you enjoy playing in this space? Explain!!
• What do you most like doing with your mom and/or dad? Why do you enjoy doing this with your mom and/or dad?
  
• What is your favorite sport? What do you like about this sport? What does it mean to be good at this sport? Do you think that you have to be good at a sport to like it? Why/why not?
  
• How old do you think that somebody has to be to be old? What do you think can be older, buildings or people? Why do you think this way?

Questions for Older Students

• Why do you think that somebody would buy a shirt that says, "Final Game?" Do you think it would be exciting to go to the final game at a baseball stadium that is 80 years old? Why/why not?
  
• If Yankee Stadium could talk about things that happened inside of it what story do you think it would tell first? What questions might you ask to answer this question more thoughtfully? Where might you look for these answers?
  
• Respond to the following statement: "Yankee Stadium was where people played baseball. Baseball was and is only a sport."
  
• If you could ask somebody shown on the video any one question, to whom would you ask a question? What question would you ask? Why would you ask this person this question?