<p>"It is only if we and our children properly remember and understand 9/11 that we can make sure that nothing like it ever happens again," Johnson said at the unveiling in London of a new artwork to commemorate the attacks.<br /><br />He said the website would help to "provide a controlled demolition" of the conspiracy theories surrounding the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon which took place a decade ago yesterday.<br /><br />Peter Rosengard, chairman of the "9/11 London project", said research in British schools last year revealed "the most incredible ignorance, confusion and misunderstanding" of the attacks.<br /><br />"Children have to see something to understand it wasn't a videogame, it really happened, it could have been their mums, their dads" among the nearly 3,000 dead, he said.<br /><br />Rosengard said a survey of teachers found that 90 per cent wanted to teach their pupils about 9/11 but complained they lacked the resources.<br /><br />The website, aimed at children aged 11 to 16, includes downloadable lesson plans for teachers.<br /><br />Nat Ogborn, 26, a history teacher at a school in the deprived south London borough of Peckham, said: "A lot of the children... didn't know much about the event, some had only heard a lot about the conspiracy theories, so it's great to have another insight."<br /><br />One of his pupils, Michael Kuku, 12, said he knew nothing about the attacks until recently.<br />"I didn't know it happened, I found out about like a year ago."<br /><br />The artwork unveiled in Battersea Park, south London, is fashioned from steel girders retrieved from the rubble of the Twin Towers and designed by New York artist Miya Ando.</p>
<p>"It is only if we and our children properly remember and understand 9/11 that we can make sure that nothing like it ever happens again," Johnson said at the unveiling in London of a new artwork to commemorate the attacks.<br /><br />He said the website would help to "provide a controlled demolition" of the conspiracy theories surrounding the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon which took place a decade ago yesterday.<br /><br />Peter Rosengard, chairman of the "9/11 London project", said research in British schools last year revealed "the most incredible ignorance, confusion and misunderstanding" of the attacks.<br /><br />"Children have to see something to understand it wasn't a videogame, it really happened, it could have been their mums, their dads" among the nearly 3,000 dead, he said.<br /><br />Rosengard said a survey of teachers found that 90 per cent wanted to teach their pupils about 9/11 but complained they lacked the resources.<br /><br />The website, aimed at children aged 11 to 16, includes downloadable lesson plans for teachers.<br /><br />Nat Ogborn, 26, a history teacher at a school in the deprived south London borough of Peckham, said: "A lot of the children... didn't know much about the event, some had only heard a lot about the conspiracy theories, so it's great to have another insight."<br /><br />One of his pupils, Michael Kuku, 12, said he knew nothing about the attacks until recently.<br />"I didn't know it happened, I found out about like a year ago."<br /><br />The artwork unveiled in Battersea Park, south London, is fashioned from steel girders retrieved from the rubble of the Twin Towers and designed by New York artist Miya Ando.</p>