Pillar
Legacy
9/11 Memorial Engagement
Through exploring 9/11 memorials, students discover new entry points into civic engagement, reflection, historical inquiry, and community participation.
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Resilience
Everyday Change-Makers
The 9/11 change-makers lesson plan explores the ways individuals contribute to the well-being of others through service, leadership, initiative, compassion, and everyday acts of responsibility.
Pillar
Legacy
Leadership Under Pressure On and After 9/11
Students read historically reflective narrative profiles related to the events and aftermath of September 11 to engage in leadership as a lived experience.
Pillar
Legacy
Living Legacy, Oral History
The Living Legacy Oral History curriculum helps students encounter September 11 as a collection of lived human experiences carried across generations.
Pillar
History
The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
Students will explore the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, how people responded, and how lessons from the attack influenced safety, security, and preparedness.
Pillar
Heroism
The Classroom as Community
A model for teaching difficult history through community, reflection, and service.
Pillar
History
The Rise of Al-Qaeda Pre-9/11
Students will explore how Al-Qaeda developed over time and examine how conflict, ideology, networks, resources, and individual choices contributed to its rise.
Pillar
History
The World Before 9/11
Students will explore the world before 9/11 and examine how the attacks changed expectations around security, privacy, travel, technology, and global conflict.
Pillar
Response
What We Knew: Intelligence Before 9/11
Students will examine intelligence available before 9/11 and explore how incomplete information, agency silos, and uncertainty made an emerging threat difficult to recognize and act upon.
Pillar
Legacy
Writing as Reflection: Stories of 9/11
Working with a 9/11-related mentor text, students explore observation, voice, dialogue, perspective, reflection, and the craft of meaningful storytelling.
