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==Learning Activity 3-D-2: Local Documents, Data, and Cartoons==

[] This article from Sports Illustrated describes the five decades of economic decline and racial conflict and how a Western Pennsylvania mill town has found unity and hope on the football field.

[] This article is from our local newspaper, The Beaver County Times. The article talks about how ESPN recognizes the history of Aliquippa's athletes.

[] This site is Aliquippa School District's homepage. Here you will find the history of football from 1980 on. It also describes how Aliquippa is the best area team in the last quarter century.

[] This article is from ESPN. It describes New York Jets' Darrelle Revis and his time at Aliquippa along with his trainer, Rod Forbes.

[] This is the WPIAL website. This document shows the football champions history. After viewing this document you will see year, class (section) and how many times Aliquippa has won the WPIAL championship.

[] This is an article of when Darelle first left for the Jet's. The New York Times ran an article on the famous athlete from the small mill town of Aliquippa.

Learning Activity 4-D-1: Local Photos and Posters
[]. --Aliquippa Works going full blast in 1956.

[] Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, Aliquippa Works (J and L Steel) Aliquippa & Southern Railroad Company The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Rainroad [] --Aliquippa's Mascot

[] --New York Jet's Darrelle Revis returns to Aliquippa to speak to students.

[] --A poster of some coaches and players from Aliquippa's glorious past. They are, clockwise from top, Don Yannessa, Frank Marocco, Pudgy Abercrombie, Ty Law, Darrelle Revis, Sean Gilbert and Mike Zmijanac.

[] --Darelle Revis during his senior year at Aliquippa, HS where he won a state title.

[] --Aliquippa years ago ==Learning Activity 5-D-1: Local Audio and Music==

[] --Aliquippa School District's Alma Mater Lyrics

[] --This is a podcast (right side of the article, half way down) from Jets Corner Back, Darrelle Revis. He joins 1050's Michael Kay to discuss what the Jets did differently this time around to beat the Pats.

[] --This is a link to sheet music on National Sports composed by Doc Atherton.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/dukesm:@field(NUMBER+@band(n0855)) --This is historic American sheet music from 1894 called Yale Society Two-Step. This was created in 1894 and published in New York.

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/sheetmusic/n/n06/n0625/ --On, Wisconsin! was a song from 1910. This picture of sheet music depicts what kind of marching song Wisconsin had at this time.

**Learning Activity 6-D-1: Local Video and Maps**

[] --This is a video clip that ESPN did on Aliquippa and it's rich tradition of football. Some of those who were interviewed that played football for Aliquippa are; Jets corner Darrelle Revis, Ty Law, and Mike Ditka.

[] --This is a video clip from Sports Illustrated on how Aliquippa was once a flousrishing mill town and how it is now full of violence and drug abuse. In the video clip you will see how high school football, and the stars it produces, gives reason for hope.

[] --Mike Ditka returns to his hometown of Aliquippa, PA and meets with the high school football team.

--This link is a map of Aliquippa, Beaver County, Pennsylvania

[] --This is a link to highlights of Darelle Revis while playing for the New York Jets.

[] --This link is an NFL map of where every teams stadium is located and how far they are from each other. If you click on a team it gives you information and reviews about the stadium. You can also measure the distance between two teams on a map.

==‍‍‍Learning Activity 8-B-1: Local History Project ‍‍‍==




 * Introduction:** My local history project is an informational PowerPoint presentation on the history of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. It shows the towns strong football traditions and the many famous athletes that came from the small mill town. In my presentation, I highlighted the booming J and L Steel company and what it did for the town and when it closed, how the town took a turn for the worse. I will use this presentation as either a lead up or wrap up of a football unit. I made this strictly informational so my students can watch the powerpoint, we can discuss it and then start into our lesson on football. My situation is unique because I only see my students once every 5 days so I want them moving as much as possible at all times.
 * Conclusion:** I really enjoyed creating this local history project. I thought I knew just about everything there was to know about Aliquippa since I have lived here my entire life and my family worked at J & L Steel but I learned so much more through creating this project. I am excited to present this to my students and see what they have to say. When I ask them how their football games go and who won, they always complain about how good Aliquippa is and always was but they can't figure out why. Now I can show them why and they will understand!

Dana, Like I mentioned in the reply I left on your forum post, I absolutely love your PowerPoint presentation and would love to collaborate our projects if that is something that would interest you. Being that we both teach in the same county, I could add an entire Beaver County approach to my project and we could use both tools to help better reach our students. Your information presented really helps demonstrate the history of Aliquippa, as well as what amazing athletes have originated from the area. This is a great motivational tool to help students want to strive to achieve their goals. I implimented more athletics than football, so that would be a great lead-up to your presentation to have students participate in a WebQuest experience. I plan on altering in the future and making it into a Wiki-based project to help us, the teacher, have the ability to better track students progress and present the information a little better, so that is something to consider. Again, I love the project and thank you for the valuable information. I learned a lot by going over it! -Tara ==Additional Notes and Resources==

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