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Resources for teaching about 9-11

From the NCSS, a variety of resources and lesson plans on 9/11 and the war in Iraq: http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/moments [1]

From PBS, “America Responds”: A lesson that is cited and used by several other sites as well: http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/educators.html [2]

A digital archive of pictures of objects having to do with 9/11: http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11/ [3]

A second digital archive: http://911digitalarchive.org/ [4]

A podcast on the post-9/11 landscape: http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/podcast-episodes/post-landscape-30336.html [5]

Teaching guides and webcasts: http://www.911memorial.org/teaching-guides-0 [6]

George Bush’s presidential address on 9/20/01: http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/deliberative-topics/war-peace/george-w-bush-an-address-to-a-joint-session-of-congress-and-the-american-people-20-september-2001/ [7]

“War, Terrorism, and our Classrooms”: http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/sept11/index.shtml [8]

New York Times article on how to teach about 9/11: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/how-do-you-teach-about-911/ [9]

Remembering September 11, available at Pearson’s Online Learning Exchange: http://www.onlinelearningexchange.com/content/products/remembering911.html [10]

Large databases of resources: http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson244.shtml [11] and http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/911. [12]

The September 11th Education Program: http://www.learnabout9-11.org/ [13]