October 2021 archive

Progress Update 2

As part of our year 10 humanities course, we are able to research a project of our own choice, and create an outcome of our choice for a final exhibition

  • The topic that we have chosen to research is the ins and outs of Hiroshima. We want to discover the history behind Hiroshima, what led up to it and how significant the long term affects were. We also want to show a deeper understanding of the incident, such as the development of the bomb, the type of bomb, and the plane that dropped it.
  • Our main focus area is History, but we also want to incorporate some geography, for example the wellbeing of the population before and after the bombing and the damage to the landscape.
  • We have chosen our topic, and main question that we want to answer is How Significant the Hiroshima Bombing was. We have decided to split the project into several sections that we can individually work on to increase our producibility. We have finished our research, including our 30 bibliographies and more focused research on specific parts of our assignment such as research on the Manhattan Project and Pearl Harbor.
  • We have taken our feedback into account and finalized our presentation idea. We decided to present our project in a large scale before and after diorama. It is going to be split into 4 pieces. The first includes the Manhattan project,  the Enola Gay (Plane) and little boy (Bomb). The second is on the Nanjing Massacre. The third is on Pearl Harbor and the fourth is our main diorama which showcases the before and after of Hiroshima. We are also gonna film a short video explaining our findings.
  • Our plan for continuing our project includes writing and starting our short video and getting comfortably in the production phase of our diorama.