Nashua North Media Center: Remembering September 11, 2001: Teacher Resources

Note to Teachers

The events surrounding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 provide a unique challenge for teachers, because most have vivid personal memories of those events. This page contains lesson plans developed specifically to help teach this defining moment in our history to students who have little to no memory of that day.

9/11 Memorial: Teach + Learn

9/11 Memorial: Teach + Learn

Tribute WTC: Education

Teaching 9/11

Lesson Plans

Learning From the Challenges of Our Times: Global Security, Terrorism and 9/11 in the Classroom
This guide, a collaboration of Families of September 11, Liberty Science Center and The New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, contains resources and lesson plans for K-12 educators on the events of 9/11, including themes about the context, and broader issues. These lessons were piloted in over 60 New Jersey school districts, and revised by curriculum developers.

PBS News Hour

The 9/11 anniversary in the classroom
Teaching the events and aftermath of 9/11 can be challenging because of the complex emotions it stirs up in both teacher and student and the sheer size of the topic. Keeping this in mind, we have provided a one-page background text for middle and high school students and a short list of resources for the classroom. Within the resource collections you will find articles, videos, lesson plans, interactive timelines, photo slideshows and other rich content to choose from to meet the needs of your own classroom.