Designed for students grades 9-12 to explore and investigate primary sources to help understand the events that took place aboard Flight 93. Rangers will share resource information and challenge students to use their critical and analytical thinking skills.
Option 1: Review the Glossary, Story of Flight 93, and the September 11 Timeline to provide context on September 11 and Flight 93. Option 2: Consider assigning a book from our Recommended Reading for students to explore a more in depth look at September 11 and Flight 93.
Post-Video Activities
Activity 1: Divide students into three groups. Each group will analyze one of the three primary source materials (Videos and Web Page):
Phone Calls and Seating Chart
Flight Data Recorder
Cockpit Voice Recorder
After analyzing each document and watching each video, regroup and facilitate a conversation based on the questions asked during the program, including the following central question:
What do you believe happened on Flight 93 the morning of September 11, 2001?
After using primary sources, how accurate is the Story of Flight 93?
Activity 2: Using the primary source documents provided, have students act as FBI agents to create their own written report summarizing what they have learned through their investigation.
Activity 3: Have students watch Be the Next Hero: The Investigation of United Flight 93, a video from the FBI, which focuses on employees at the Pittsburgh FBI and their response to the hijacking, crash, and investigation of Flight 93. Have students compare and contrast their own findings and the FBI investigators in this video.
Option 2: Teach to Remember: Courage
Image preview of Courage depicting artifacts from the Flight 93 Museum Collection.
Teach to Remember: Courage Activities and Materials
Pre-Video Activities
Option 1: Review the Story of Flight 93 and September 11 Timeline to provide context on September 11 and Flight 93. Option 2: Assign students to learn more about Flight 93 Flight Attendant Sandy Waugh Bradshaw and the remaining 39 crew members and passengers not mentioned in this video.
Post-Video Discussion Questions:
1. How do you define courage? 2. The decision to act courageously is a choice that many of us may be called upon to make at some point in time. The crew members and passengers of Flight 93 may have been scared, but they voted to confront their dangerous situation together. Write about a time when you or someone you know acted courageously. What happened? Why was courage required?
Option 3: Moment of Remembrance
Image preview of what you will experience during the Moment of Remembrance.
The Moment of Remembrance is meant to observe the September 11 attack, recounting the events of that day while honoring and reflecting on those who were lost in New York, Arlington, and Stonycreek Township. Witness the reading of the 40 crew members' and passengers' names and the ringing of the Bells of Remembrance.
Option 1: Review the Story of Flight 93 and September 11 Timeline to provide context on September 11 and Flight 93. Option 2: Consider assigning a book from our Recommended Reading for students to explore a more in depth look at September 11 and Flight 93.
Post-Video Activities and Discussion Questions:
1. Have students individually or in groups research a crew member or passenger and create a biographical report about them. 2. As a student, how can you honor and remember those we have lost, both on September 11 and in your own life? 3. Families of the people who died on September 11, 2001 and citizens from around the world have left messages in New York, Arlington and Shanksville for those who perished on that day. Using the resources provided, learn about a crew member or passenger from Flight 93 and write them a personal letter based upon what you have learned about their life and their actions.
Option 4: Virtual Tour
Image previews from the Virtual Tour including the Tower of Voices, Crash Site, and Visitor Center.
Join National Park Service Rangers and Gordon Felt, the brother of Flight 93 passenger Edward P. Felt, for a guided tour of Flight 93 National Memorial. Learn more about the Memorial and several design features that honor the crew members and passengers.
Option 1: Review the Story of Flight 93 and September 11 Timeline to provide context on September 11 and Flight 93. Option 2: Consider assigning a book from our Recommended Reading for students to explore a more in depth look at September 11 and Flight 93.
Post-Video Discussion Questions:
1. What part of the Memorial is the most meaningful to you and why? 2.What part of the Memorial do you think means the most to the family members of the crew members and passengers of Flight 93?
