Other Resources
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From the New York Times Learning Network:
Teaching 9/11: Why? How? by Pam Moran and Ira Socol
How Do You Teach About 9/11? – an invitation to join the conversation.
Responding to Crisis with Students (from Stuyvesant High School, New York City)
From PBS:
American Responds – resources to help educators teach students about peace, tolerance, war, patriotism, geography, and other related issues.
From Teaching for Change:
Resources for Teaching about 9/11 – provides links for teachers to address in the classroom including such topics as U.S. foreign policy, Islam, and Arab and Arab American news.
From Facing History & Ourselves:
Legacies of September 11 - lesson looks at the issues of civil liberties, freedom and safety and the tensions that may arise in a democracy.
From Thinkfinity.org:
9/11 Never Forgotten – a collection of lessons and resources for elementary-high school
From the Anti-Defamation League (ADL):
Committing to Respect – A 9/11 Commemoration – Lessons to help youth, pre-K–12 grade, better understand concepts of bias and discrimination and respond to them in productive ways.
From the New Jersey Dept of Education Commission on Holocaust Education”
Learning from the Challenges of Our Time – a K-12 curriculum
from TeachableMoment:
The Islamic Community Center and the World Trade Center
How do we handle our kids' hardest questions?
The Essential Skill of Crap Detecting
Teaching on Controversial Issues
More to Explore
New Amsterdam (which became New York) in about 1630, both as map and photo. The World Trade Center site would be located in what is shown as the river, off the top right of this map.Below: Alexandria, Virginia in 1890. The Pentagon site is towrd the far back of this scene.
