Multiple Perspectives: Discovering the Path to Peace Through Firsthand Accounts

Welcome: Multiple Perspectives: Discovering the Path to Peace Through Firsthand Accounts
Description: In this web-quest students will compare first hand accounts of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with first hand accounts from those involved in the Manhattan Project, Pearl Harbor Survivors, and Soldiers who served in the Pacific theater. Students will then develop their own opinion of the use of Atomic weaponry.
Grade Level: 6-8
Curriculum: Social Studies
Keywords: Atomic bombing, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Pearl Harbor, World War II, Hibakusha, Manhattan Project, Japan, peace, persuasive writing
Author(s): Kelly Mchenry