Humanities 

Year 10 Humanities 

WWII: The Bombings of Japan 

 Students in Year 10 Humanities have finalised their studies of WWII by researching the initial and ongoing impacts of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th of August 1945, respectively. 

Students researched the ethics of the bombings as a means to end WWII and also discussed how Japan’s wellbeing factors of health, wealth and education were shaped by these events. Students engaged with a range of poems, songs, pictures and data sources through interactive Gallery Walks. To finalise the unit, students listened to the story ‘Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes’ before making an origami crane in honour and memory of the Sadako Sasaki – the young girl at the centre of the true story.  

Perhaps on Peace Day – August 6 – you might like to make an origami crane to commemorate Sadako and those impacted by the bombings of Japan.  

 Emma Winton

Humanities teacher