Teaching and Learning About 9/11 With The New York Times. On that day — the Sept. 11 that requires no year — the sun set on crushed buildings in a reimagined world.
It set on a recontoured skyline and a haunted city. The equations of life no longer worked. That’s the way it seemed. A decade now since the tall towers fell in New York and the Pentagon was gashed open and a diverted plane dropped into a field near Shanksville, Pa., people know where they were when they heard the unheard-of. Lesson Plans. 9/11/2001: The Day That Changed America. In this Scholastic report, you'll find dozens of informative and poignant stories divided into five topical sections: A Day for Reflection; Kids Make a Difference; A Nation Recovers; What's Next for America?
; and A Time for Tolerance. In the following Lesson Plans, we provide suggestions for using each of those sections in your classroom. We hope you will join our returning teachers in using these discussion starters, activities, and ready-to-print reproducibles as a curriculum "tour guide" for the online news stories. For more teacher tips on current events, check out Scholastic News online.