Lesson+Plan


 * __ The Dropping of the Atomic Bombs __**


 * Time Frame: ** 1 class period


 * Topic: ** WWII


 * Subject: ** World History, Global Studies


 * Grade: ** 7th, 8th, and 9th


 * Background Statement: ** Students have just finished learning about WWI and have been introduced to WWII up until the United States involvement.


 * Daily Concepts: ** Manhattan project, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, “Little Boy”, “Fat Man”


 * Generalization Statement: ** The United States suffered great losses during WWII. We lost the lives of men on American soil during Pearl Harbor, and on foreign soil during the invasion of Normandy. The amount of lives that would be lost combined with the financial cost of a mainland invasion of Japan to end the war after Germany’s surrender seemed to be too much for the United States. We developed nuclear weapons and ended the war is three days by first dropping a bomb on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.


 * Daily Goals: **
 * Have my students be able to understand the significance of certain events like Pearl Harbor (United States enters war), D-Day (turning point in the war for the Allies), the dropping of Atomic Bombs (Ends WWII) and how they impacted the war.
 * Show my students why the United States developed the atomic bomb and had to use it on Japan to end WWII.
 * Provide my students with enough information to not only form their own opinion about the dropping of the atomic bombs, but also be able to back that opinion up with facts.

Learning Standard 2 World History Unit Six: The United States in an Age of Global Crisis: Responsibility and Cooperation
 * Standards: **

Grade 6-8: W6 Technology I would have students log onto https://bubbl.us/ and use their creativity to create a mind map of WWII to submit before they go home to make sure the understood the material that day.

1) What effect did Japan attacking Pearl Harbor have on WWII? 2) Why was the United States interested in dropping two atomic bombs to end the war instead of a full-scale invasion of the mainland of Japan?
 * Essential Questions: **

1) Show American losses throughout the war in terms of financial losses and loss of life. 2) How did the atomic bomb come to be? 3) Why was it so important for the United States to drop the atomic bombs when they did?
 * Objectives: **


 * Activities: ** I would start the class out by showing a video of the devastation caused by the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Once the movie had finished I would ask students to come up and write how they felt or anything about the dropping of the atomic bombs that they saw. Then I would show a video of the attack on Pearl Harbor. After that had finished I would use the same words that they choose to describe the first video to describe the second connecting the two together. This shows my students that both the Americans and Japanese were both human during this war. After lecturing for a bit my students could write down some useful information about the topics I was discussing. Then I would break the class up into smaller groups for a write-around. During this write-around students would start at the end of WWI and then proceed to give me events that happened up until the end of WWII in order. As the students pass the sheet of paper around they will be writing about a different portion of the war each time.

First the video about the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki… []
 * Resources: **

The second video about the bombing of Pearl Harbor… []

Materials Include: Notebook, Pen/Pencil, and Social Studies textbook

If my students can correctly state the events that took place and what effect they had on the overall war effort from the beginning of WWII until the end of WWII then I did my job successfully.
 * Daily Evaluation: **