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This lesson investigates what happened at Chernobyl in April 1986 and challenges students to explain why it was such a terrible nuclear disaster.

This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, reading comprehension task, mini-plenaries, a consolidation explain written question and two plenaries.

Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.

This lesson can be used as a part of a growing bundle on ‘Disasters’, which includes the Aberfan Disaster and Titanic, which can be found here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/historical-disasters-12911227

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Historical Disasters

This Historical Disasters bundle includes: 1. Medieval Disasters 2. Titanic 3. Aberfan Disaster 4. Chernobyl This download includes everything you need to teach these lessons - all powerpoints, clips, activities, instructions, worksheets and information sheets. Scaffolding and challenge activities are included where possible. All lessons last at least one hour and are fully editable. Activities have been designed to promote thinking and discussion. Please take a look at my growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory **CUSTOMER SERVICE IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME** - If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email me at **discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com** and I'll try to solve them for you. I really appreciate being given the chance to make things right. **Please support my small business by leaving a review.** I have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons available or on the way, please keep an eye out - follow social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email me!

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