The 9/11 Commission Report Activities & Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Remebering 9/11/2001

Write a journal entry of where you were on September 11, 2001. Find 3 other people of various ages and ask them where they were on 9/11/2001. Record their answers in a separate journal entry.

2. Honor

Create a poem honoring the men and women who are heroes of 9/11 in your eyes.

3. Replica

Design a replica of the Twin Towers. You can paint a picture, create a 3-D model, or sketch it out. Be creative.

4. Newspaper...
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