March 11, 2010
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Fat Man was the code name of the atomic bomb, made from plutonium, that destroyed Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. It was 128 inches long and 60 inches in diameter. The bomb was dropped from the B-29 named "Bock's Car".

Did you know that Fat Man was named for Prime Minister Winston Churchill?

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Developing ITW Listening Guides and Trunk Sheets
  • This document can help you create Trunk Sheets for In Their Words veterans.  Questions are divided according to Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of higher order thinking skills.
In Their Words Subject Areas and Content Standards
  • Look here if you are attempting to match specific, content-related frameworks to our web site.
    • American History
    • Arkansas History
    • English Language Arts- Oral and Visual Communication, Writing, Reading, and Inquiring/Researching
    • Fine Arts- Art II
    • Library Media- Inquiry and Application
    • Mathematics- Algebraic Connections, Language of Geometry, and Descriptive Statistics/Data Analysis
    • Science- Physics
    • Social Studies- Sociology, and World Geography
    • Family and Consumer Sciences- Clothing Management, and FACS (Food and Nutrition, Home Management and Consumer Education, and Housing and Interior Design)
Katz Trunk Sheet
  • This link will provide an example of a completed Trunk Sheet for Charles Lawrence Katz using the Bloom's Taxonomy model of higher order thinking skills.



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