Teacher Grants
Are you a teacher and would like to receive diversity, tolerance and 9/11 teaching aids for your classroom? To qualify for teacher grants just register your classoom today, and comit to using them during September 2011. The delivery address must be a school to receive your supplies.
The list of teacher supplies will not be finalized until May 2011. Until then please feel free to click here to email your ideas to K12 School Donations.
Sample Teaching Aids
- The Inclusive Classroom
- Feeling Angry
- Exploring other cultures
- Lesson Plans
As time has passed — it seems like yesterday — since I heard those first unbelievable sounds of a plane overhead, then another plane, as they crashed into the buildings of the World Trade Center. For a generation of students who were not around or were too young to understand the events of the day, it is important that we take the time to share our memories.
The anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, offers a time to remember, to reflect about this unforgettable moment in history, and to reconsider the affect that September 11 has had on our community, in our country and the world. To help you remember the anniversary, we are helping teacher by donating teacher supplies and aids to recall the opportunity this anniversary affords to renew the lessons learned that day about patriotism, heroism, tolerance, and diversity.
FIVE EXAMPLE LESSONS
Hang a Multi-cultural or Flag Mural
What better way to greet visitors to your school (or to your Town Hall) than with a student-created flag mural? Murals can focus on pictures taken of people for the community or children in the school, they can be collages form magazines, or country flags representing your students ancestry to display diversity.
Write Letters to Commemorate 9/11
Students commemorate 9/11 by writing letters to fire, police, or emergency medical personnel in local communities or to the service men and women who fight terrorism overseas.
Proverbs of One World
Students create a book or bulletin board of proverbs that offer lessons connected to themes of freedom, tolerance, patriotism, diversity, and respect.
Use Literature to Teach Tolerance
Commemorate 9/11 by reading aloud children’s books that focus on the theme of tolerance.
My Name Is Osama, or Marco or Luigi, or Hector
Have children write a short story about a young immigrant boy or girl to opens up classroom discussion about the difficulties some children and families face, especially in the days after September 11.
For Teaching Supplies Please Visit Our Sponsor.
