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Storytelling activity for key stages 3 and 4: based on the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. This activity will help develop pupils' listening, memory and recording skills
The atomic bomb
Written by Peter Fisher and Ian Wilkinson and edited by David Leat
This contains a storytelling activity which will help pupils to:
- enhance pupil knowledge and understanding
- encourage pupils to sequence key events
- improve their ability to select key points of an event and judge their
significance
- personalise a controversial and somewhat alien issue
- improve pupils’ ability to recall information by encouraging them to explore
different methods of recording and remembering an event
- tap into pupils’ visual memory skills.
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