A card sort activity designed to get students to think critically about the causes and consequences of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Suggested use: Students a) group them into the causes, events and consequences of the bombings. b) students order the causes of the bombings from the greatest cause to the smallest cause. c) students put the events of the bombing in chronological order. d) students order the consequences of the bombings from least to most “significant”. - Students must justify all decisions made.