History as Mystery- 9/11

Hi Philip, this is an interesting idea. While I have not done the History as Mystery activity with my students (I start much later in history), it looks like a great activity. I think your idea could work but what in particular do you want your students to get out of the activity? 9/11 can be an interesting topic to teach (especially since I'm in New York, not far from Manhattan) so I'm very aware of tone. The 9/11 Museum has a lot of great free videos and articles that I have used over the years (https://www.911memorial.org/learn). There is this one section that has oral histories that are very short (less than 5 minutes each and there's quite a few of them) so maybe you can have students choose a few of those to listen to and reflect on? Including Bryan Dibble Gwen Duralek Laura Massa to weigh in on this

Thanks so much... I'm going to look into that resource!

I attended the summer teacher institute at the 9/11 museum this summer.  You may also be interested in this.  Anniversary Digital Learning Experience.  I am not sure is is quite right for the lesson you are working on but it seemed appropriate to share.  

Thanks for sharing!

Philip Gerhardt said:

Anyone have a good resource (short video/reading) that has kindof a "what caused this?" tone for September 11th?  Any thoughts?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yof6vSn7Wlhiioiwj0rrhwhv03zotGDTKtSYDh_KkQM/edit?usp=sharing

https://www.osu.edu/impact/research-and-innovation/hahn-september-11

I used to do it as a multiple causality lesson right after introducing Alphonse.   The top link is something I made years ago.   I don't know if I ever got out of the "rough draft" phase.   Use it for what it's worth.

The second link is an Ohio State article.  It's okay.  It has some information.

If you're allowed, this seems like a great project for AI.   Maybe as a class you ask it questions and then continue to press it gaining more and more insight.

You might start with "Why did 9-11 happen?"   and then keep asking it questions.   It might be fun to do as a class if you get some buy in and can help model how kids can be using AI as a tutor.

Those are some good ideas and resources... I've added them to my growing list.  Thanks for the help!

I found this lesson.  It may be what you're looking for.  Lesson

That's great... thank you!

Retro Report has a nice compilation of 9/11 resources - retroreport.org/.../

Thank you!