Competency: Provide a concrete example of why nuclear weapons must be abolished

Linked Core Abilities:

LESSON PLAN

Activities:

1. PARTICIPATE in learning warm-up activities by asking the students to raise their hand if they think an A bomb is more powerful than an H bomb. After explaining a hydrogen bomb can be much powerful, share the mental image that the atomic bomb is the blasting cap for a hydrogen bomb.

2. REVIEW Lesson Objectives

a. Describe when the atomic bomb was created.

b. Explain the number of bombs in the US and world arsenals.

c. Evaluate the potential consequences of not abolishing nuclear bombs.

3. REVIEW Key Words.

Define key word: atomic, fission, fusion, hydrogen, nuclear winter, and thermonuclear.

4. COMPLETE exercises to assess understanding of Key Words.

Ask the class leader to write the key words for the day on the board. The class leader then calls upon students for the correct definitions. The class leader can also test for understanding by asking students to use key words in a sentence.

5. PARTICIPATE in a lecture/discussion of the lesson.

Students watch the film Nuclear Bombs 101 on this site.

6. COMPLETE practice exercises to assess understanding lesson concepts.

7. PARTICIPATE in a summary of the lesson (Lesson Review)

1. How much money has the US spent since 1945 developing nuclear bombs?"

2. How many nuclear bombs have been developed by the US?

3. What is nuclear winter and why we care?

4. Why is the abolition of nuclear bombs necessary?