Easy Ways Learn about 9/11 in Your Homeschool

With the 20th anniversary of 9/11 quickly approaching, we'll soon see wall-to-wall coverage & remembrance of those days.  Knowing those images can be overwhelming to kids (and adults!), we decided to gather up ideas that will make it easy for you to remember it in your homeschool. 

These ideas are all approachable and low-prep. 

Picture Books
Fireboat by Maira Kalman
America is Under Attack by Don Brown
14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy
The Survivor Tree by Cheryl Somers Aubin 

Chapter Books
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Raskin
The Memory of Things by Gae Pollsner
All We Have Left by Wendy Mills
Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Unit Studies & Lesson Plans

5-day from Pandia Press (search 9/11 in our Marketplace to find the basic lesson plan)
Encountering 9/11 from Schoalstic
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
9/11 & the Constitution (high school)

Podcasts
Blindspot: The Road to 9/11
Our City.  Our Story.