Explore – Research, think, do
Exploration 4: Making an impact today!
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Use Starter Reading - The story of Sadako Sasaki
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How can the life of one person make such a lasting impact?
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Name and discuss the lives of other individuals who have changed the world
because of one action, one idea, one contribution.
Henry Dunant is one.
Go to www.redcross.org.au/ihl and www.nextstep.targetnuclearweapons.org.au Both have
more information and ideas about getting active!
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Have your say: Should the use of nuclear bombs be banned? Vote, and keep the
total ticking over……One million is great, but just a start…..
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Use the map bombing tool to find out the impact of a nuclear weapon dropped
today – noting its power could be seven times as much as that of ‘Little Boy’.
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Consider what you love – and what would be lost in a nuclear explosion. Submit a
video, a photo, to our wall.
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Red Cross, the international organisation skilled and prepared to help out in
earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and bushfires, says that it could not mount an
adequate medical or humanitarian response if a nuclear bomb were dropped
today. Find out more about why this is. How much does this impact on the sense
of urgency to ban nuclear weapons?
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Listen to the stories of Hiroshima survivors.
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Read the latest from government meetings, today, and over the coming months.
 In general, how do people get the word out when
they are passionate about a topic and want to tell others?
 Create some impact against nuclear weapons using a letter, poster or Twitter.
These volunteers chose to act as a flash mob, in Darwin’s Smith Street Mall. Shoppers
watched as the ‘blast’ knocked some off their feet, and others shielded their eyes in
terror.
 Ask parents and grandparents about how they were involved in action against
nuclear weapons during earlier decades. Be surprised that ‘oldies’ were active too!
Keep the topic of nuclear weapons, and the need for an international ban against their use,
alive in the public arena. Make a list of all the things that one person, or one class, or
one school, could do. Plan a promotion in your school.
Further ideas
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Look out for Junko Morimoto’s beautifully illustrated children’s book ‘My Hiroshima’
(Viking Kestrel Picture Books) 1990 – An impact through art and story.
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Go to Red Cross Facebook page
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