Casualties of War: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of the 1945 Atomic Bomb Attacks on Japan
Subject areas: social studies, mathematics, and biology
Grade level: 10th-12th
Level of difficulty: low
Summary: This unit encourages students to analyze the ethical, medical, and economic implications of war and to consider how to assess the immediate and delayed health effects of a catastrophic event.
Students will apply their understanding of natural experiments by writing a short essay about epidemiological studies conducted to examine effects of the September 11, 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center on the health of New York City residents.
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