Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Promoting Nebraska

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson about the promotion of Nebraska as a state to visit and live in. They conduct research using the internet about the state and then work in teams to create a multimedia advertising campaign for the state of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan:Launching the New U.S. Navy

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners demonstrate understanding of the issues related to the creation and ratification of the United States Constitution and the new Government it established.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Studying the African Immigration Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read a narrative, conduct an interview and write an autobiographical piece highlighting their findings about an immigrant's experience leaving their country.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Medieval Ethiopia, Mali and Nigeria: The Influence of Culture in Africa

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners are introduced to the concept of cultural diffusion. In groups, they identify the culture of Mali, Nigeria and Ethiopia and work together to research how cultural diffusion has changed the country. To end the lesson, they...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Latin America: Places and Regions

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create a Latin American portfolio in the form of a country presentation using PowerPoint software. They use their knowledge of geographic concepts to interpret maps, globes, charts, diagrams, and timelines.
Website
Other

New York State Museum: World Trade Center: Rescue, Recovery. Response

For Students 9th - 10th
Information, photographs, and voice interviews about the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center including rescue, recovery, and response.
Article
A&E Television

History.com: The World Trade Center, by the Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
When the World Trade Center's Twin Towers opened to the public in 1973, they were the tallest buildings in the world. Statistics: They rose a quarter-mile in the sky, contained 15 miles of elevator shafts, and nearly 44,000 windows. From...
Primary
Other

U.s. Fire Administration: World Trade Center Bombing: Report and Analysis [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an in-depth report and analysis of the World Trade Center Bombing in 1993. Included in the 132-page document are statistical data, a complete recount of events, numerous diagrams, and much more.
Primary
US Department of Justice

U.s. Department of Justice: World Trade Center Bombing Suspect Apprehended

For Students 9th - 10th
A News Release from February 8, 1995, concerning the apprehension of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, a fugitive indicted for the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing of 1993.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: One World Trade Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the new World Trade Center that was constructed at Ground Zero to memorialize 9/11, as well as to change the New York City skyline.
Primary
Columbia University

The World Trade Center Attack: The Official Documents

For Students 9th - 10th
An ambitious compilation of government documents surrounding the attack on the World Trade Center and September 11, 2001, in general.
Article
A&E Television

History.com: World Trade Center

For Students 9th - 10th
The iconic twin towers of downtown Manhattan's World Trade Center were a triumph of human imagination and will. Completed in 1973, the towers stood at 110 stories each, accommodating 50,000 workers and 200,000 daily visitors in 10...
Article
A&E Television

History.com: 7 Facts About the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing

For Students 9th - 10th
The attack by a group of Islamic fundamentalists announced the growing threat of terrorism on US soil. Eighteen minutes after noon on February 26, 1993, a bomb exploded in the basement parking garage below the north tower of the World...
Unit Plan
9/11 Memorial & Museum

National September 11 Memorial & Museum: World Trade Center History

For Students 9th - 10th
The Twin Towers were the centerpieces of the World Trade Center complex. At 110 stories each, 1 WTC (North Tower) and 2 WTC (South Tower) provided nearly 10-million-square feet of office space for about 35,000 people and 430 companies....
Unit Plan
9/11 Memorial & Museum

National September 11 Memorial & Museum: 1993 World Trade Center Bombing

For Students 9th - 10th
On February 26, 1993, at 12:18 p.m., a small cell of terrorists, with links to a local radical mosque and broader Islamist terror networks, detonated about 1,200 pounds of explosives in a rental van in the underground parking garage at...
Article
A&E Television

History.com: The World Trade Center's Construction: 8 Surprising Facts

For Students 9th - 10th
The twin 110-story towers at the heart of the World Trade Center were designed to surpass New York's iconic Empire State Building -- then the world's tallest building. Building the new towers would marshal unprecedented levels of design...
Graphic
Other

History View: World Trade Center September 11

For Students 9th - 10th
The original World Trade Center was a large complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. It featured the landmark Twin Towers, which opened on April 4, 1973, and were destroyed in 2001 during the September...
Article
A&E Television

History.com: How the Design of the World Trade Center Claimed Lives on 9/11

For Students 9th - 10th
After the jets hit, stairwells became the sole means of escape for thousands of WTC occupants. But design choices hampered full evacuation -- and made the descent even more harrowing. The stairs in the twin towers were a product of their...
Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: World Trade Center Bombing

For Students 9th - 10th
Article contains interesting facts and information on the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, the beginning of a string of threats and terror attacks against the United States made by both foreign and domestic terrorists.
Website
ProCon.org

Pro Con: Muslim Community Center Near Ground Zero Site?

For Students 9th - 10th
Website presents research and non-partisan arguments of controversial issues focusses on the pros and cons of building a Muslim Community Center at the site of the World Trade Center. Archived material.
Handout
Other

The Skyscraper Museum: The World Trade Center

For Students 9th - 10th
A good reference for information on the World Trade Center, this page has information about the buildings, including measurements and construction dates. This would be a good place to start researching the World Trade Center.
Lesson Plan
Other

International Monetary Fund: All About Money [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A valuable resource for educators who are teaching their students about money. A series of lesson plans cover everything from the different forms of currency over time, to trade and economic growth and exchange. Activities and games are...
Activity
PBS

Pbs: American Experience: The Center of the World: Teacher's Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will have an opportunity to create memorials at the World Trade Center site to commemorate the September 11th attacks. Come and check it out.
Primary
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Economic Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a loosely related collection of primary source documents that discuss economic issues during the Cold War period. These documents are all varied in topic and geographical coverage, ranging from the 1950s to the 1980s, and coming...