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The moon rises between the "Tribute in Light" illuminated next to One World Trade Center during 911 anniversary, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey

Lesson Plan September 11 2025

Lesson plan: 9/11 — Ways to reflect on the day’s legacy

Generate and discuss questions about the day of 9/11 and its legacy

Lesson Plan September 11 2025

Lesson plan: Teaching 9/11 through comics

Learn how comics can be a unique and powerful way to discuss history

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Educator Voices September 11 2023

Educator Voice: Teachers discuss teaching plans and experiences from 9/11

Hear from educators on how they've approached teaching the events of 9/11

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Lesson Plan March 14 2023

Media literacy lesson: The deceitful practice of quoting someone out of context

Learn how quotes have been manipulated to spread conspiracies about the 9/11 attacks and read upstream to find the original sources to explain how “contextomy” changed the meaning of quotes about a historical event.

Educator Voices September 11 2022

Educator Voice: The ever-evolving ways I’ve taught about 9-11 over the past 20 years

Sari Beth Rosenberg, an award-winning U.S. History teacher and writer, shares her thoughts about teaching 9/11

Student Voices March 30 2022

Student Recommends: Tahereh Mafi’s novel 'An Emotion of Great Delight'

In this first entry of our new Student Recommends series, Eshaan Mani says, "As an Indian American, I could identify with some aspects of Shadi’s struggle to find her place living between cultural lines — sometimes she feels like she’s leading two lives..."

Daily Video September 10 2019

On the 19th anniversary of 9/11, ask your students: How has the world changed?

Discuss with your students how the U.S. and the world have changed

Daily Video September 11 2015

9/11 memorial honors lives lost aboard Flight 93

In a remote field in western Pennsylvania, mourners gathered Thursday to commemorate the lives lost on United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.

Lesson Plan September 11 2014

Lesson plan: The 9/11 anniversary in the classroom

A man places roses at the 9/11 Memorial ahead of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks i…

Daily Video May 14 2011

President Obama Decides Against bin Laden Photo Release

Learn more about Obama's decision not to release photos of Osama bin Laden's body

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