Teaching About September 11th

What are you doing in your classroom to commemmorate the 8th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon? Or are you doing anything at all? Please feel free to use this blog to share your thoughts, ideas, and resources with the rest of us.

If you do teach about September 11th, below are just a few resources of the many available.

The National September 11th Memorial and Museum's web site education section offers the following:

• A History section with a webcast, timeline, and ongoing feature articles
• A discussion guide and activities
• 9/11: Stories of Survival and Loss - a short film featuring first-hand accounts of survivors, victims' familiy members, and first responders
• The Spirit of Volunteerism: 9/11 and Beyond - a short film highlighting the outpouring of compassion and volunteerism in the aftermath of September 11
• "History in the Making," a teaching guide with take-home pages
• A Scholastic Kid Reporter article from a kid who was there

NCSS also has a multi-resource page about September 11th:

• Dear Teacher’: Letters on the Eve of the Japanese American Imprisonment
• We are Living History: Reflections of a New York City Social Studies Teacher
• The Trauma of Terrorism: Helping Children Cope
• At Risk of Prejudice: Teaching Tolerance about Muslim Americans
• At Risk of Prejudice: The Arab American Community
• Debating War and Peace in Washington Square Park
• Media Literacy Skills: Interpreting TragedyFollowing a Tragic Event: A Necessary Challenge for Civic Educators
• In War, Is Law Silent? Security and Freedom After September 11
• Teaching about Terrorism, Islam, and Tolerance with the Internet
• Civil War in Afghanistan
• Letters to the Editor
• 2001 NCSS Presidential Address
• The Women of Afghanistan
• Restoring the Rights of Afghan Women: An Interview with Nasrine Abou-Bakre Gross
• A Thoughtful Patriotism
• Afghanistan In Focus
• My Name is Osama
• We Are Strong/We Are Vulnerable
• Both Sides of the Classroom Door: After 9-11, the Many Facets of Teaching
• Growing Up in the Aftermath of Terrorism
• World Religions and Personal Tolerance
• The Aftereffects of September 11 - What the Polls Tell Us

And finally, The September 11th Education Trust has just published a national, interdisciplinary curriculum for purchase.