The Chernobyl Disaster

Climate Change and Environmental Issues: The Chernobyl Disaster
Part 1: Creating a Research Question

1. Describe how your assumptions, beliefs, and values influenced your choice of topic.
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2. Discuss the significance of your historical research question in relation to your current event.
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3. Explain how you used sources to finalize your research question.
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   Part 2: Building Context to Address Questions
4. Describe the context of your historical event that influenced your current event.
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5. Describe a historical figure or group’s participation in your historical event.
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6. Explain the historical figure or group’s motivation to participate in your historical event.
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   Part 3: Examining How Bias Impacts Narrative
7. Describe a narrative you identified while researching the history of your historical event.
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8. Articulate how biased perspectives presented in primary and secondary sources influence what is known or unknown about history.
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9. Identify the perspectives that you think are missing from your historical event’s narrative.
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   Part 4: Connecting the Past With the Present
10. Explain how researching its historical roots helped improve your understanding of your current event.
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11. Articulate how questioning your assumptions, beliefs, and values may benefit you as an individual.
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12. Discuss how being a more historically informed citizen may help you understand contemporary issues.
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