Resources for dealing with the September 11th Act of Terrorism

Lesson Plans created by The Constitutional Fights Foundation
http://www.crf-usa.org/terror/America Responds to Terrorism.htm

America Responds PBS
http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/

Helping Children Cope with Tuesday's Act of Terrorism
http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/terrorism.html

How Terrorism Works - A concise overview on both domestic and international terrorism that helps you understand the range of terrorist activity.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/terrorism.htm

How Osama Bin Laden Works - His name has been in the news constantly as a likely suspect. Learn who he is and what he has against the U.S.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/bin-laden.htm

September 11, 2001 - Answers common questions about the events on Tuesday, including "What happened when?" and "Why were these explosions so powerful?"
http://www.howstuffworks.com/sept-eleven.htm

AskERIC has compiled a list of resources for educators and parents to help students cope with and discuss this tragedy
http://askeric.org/

Resources that may help teachers, students, and parents from Midlink
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/coping.htm

America Responds, PBS lesson plans for elementary, middle and high schools.
http://pbs.org/americaresponds/educators.html

CNN educational Web site for classrooms, is offering resources for teachers and parents relating to the attacks
http://www.CNNfyi.com

Connect for Kids has gathered a few good resources for adults to help children with their fears and grief.
http://www.connectforkids.org

Eisenhower Clearing House suggested web sites that have information for teachers/parents about how to talk with / work with children
http://www.enc.org/thisweek/news/educationheadlines/

Terrorism and the Classroom, suggestions for classroom activities plus a list of resources from About.com
http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa091101a.htm

Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters, from the National Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/violence.cfm

Helping Children Cope: Teacher Resources for Talking About Tragedy -Education World links to Web resources for helping children cope with crisis.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr369.shtml

CNN NEWSROOM
http://www.turnerlearning.com/newsroom/guide.html

Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR) has developed a free guide called, "Talking to Children about Violence and other Sensitive and Complex Issues in the World."
http://www.esrnational.org

EduHound - links to news resources, learning resources and ways schools can contribute
http://www.eduhound.com/

Useful resources that teachers and parents can use in discussing this week's events with students from the librarian at Heritage Middle School.
http://members.home.net/hmslibrary/coping.html

Children and Responding to National Disaster Information for Children (for educators), from the National Association of School Psychologists.
http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/terror_eds.html

The Jewish Education Center of Cleveland has put together a Response Curriculum to the Attack.
http://www.jecc.org/edres/curric/irc/tragedy.htm

The National Education Association has a Crisis Communication Guide, and resources for teachers trying to cope with their own stress and the stress of students.
http://www.nea.org/01crisis.html

Speeches from U.S. and foreign government leaders from George Washington University.
http://gwu.edu/~gprice/speech.htm

Current Awareness Streaming Media page. Watch/listen to many broadcasts, from George Washington University.
http://gwu.edu/~gprice/audio.htm

LexisNexis is making a great deal of material available free:
http://www.lexisnexis.com/resources/

For Parents

How to Talk to Your Child About the News, from KidsHealth
http://www.kidshealth.org/breaking_news/tragedies.html

Coping with Death and Grief, Connect for Kids
http://www.connectforkids.org/usr_doc/CopingWithGrief.htm


Helping Children Deal With Scary News -- Thoughts from Fred Rogers
http://pbskids.org/rogers/parents/sept11.htm


For Kids

Global SchoolNet has set up a space on the web to allow kids around the world to send their messages of hope, support, and condolences to those affected by the September 11th tragedy.
http://www.globalschoolnet.org

Check the New York City board of education website for a list of NYC schools. For schools wanting to send letters to NYC schools http://www.nycenet.edu/


List compiled from resources from Kathy Schrock, Cathy Moll, at OnlineClass.com (http://www.onlineclass.com/) and Blue Web'n.