When Air Traffic Control Realized a 9/11 Flight was Gone

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

6

Overview

This clip re-enacts the attacks of September 11, 2001. One of the flights vanishes off the radar, and air traffic control tries to communicate with it. As news starts pouring in of an attack on the World Trade Center, concerned air traffic controllers note that the flight is heading towards Washington D.C. and begin to suspect the worst.

Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 6

SS10.6.12

Evaluate significant political issues and policies of presidential administrations since World War II.

UP:SS10.6.12

Vocabulary

  • Interstate Highway System
  • Great Society
  • affirmative action
  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Welfare Reform
  • Patriot Act
  • No Child Left Behind
  • McCarthyism
  • Watergate Scandal
  • impeachment
  • Hurricane Katrina
  • Vietnam Conflict
  • Iranian Hostage Crisis
  • Camp David Accords
  • Persian Gulf Wars
  • domestic and foreign policy
  • desegregation
  • human rights
  • embargo
  • terrorism
  • equal opportunity

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The significant political issues and policies of American presidents since WWII.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Appraise the value of technological advances.
  • Cite evidence to support historical events.
  • Evaluate the foreign and domestic policies of the US after WWII.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • We can evaluate the politics and policies of American presidents since WWII.

CR Resource Type

Audio/Video

Resource Provider

Other

License Type

CUSTOM

Resource Provider other

Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation

Accessibility

Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
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