Titanic disaster introductory resources

A few resources created to be used in a first lesson about the Titanic disaster. It includes a sorting activity the activates prior knowledge and encourages logical thinking. For example, they might not know the name of the ship’s captain in lesson one, but only one of the fact cards is just a person’s name, so they can infer that this card must go there. I like to ask the children to place the cards where they think then I go around and tell them how many are right and let them try again. Or I will move the incorrect ones but leave the ones they have right. This allows a couple of options for scaffolding. I have also included a simple newspaper cover that requires the children to write the date the ship sank at the top and to draw a picture of the boat. I display a photo of the Titanic docked for this. The text below the image also gives them a bit more information about what happened. Perfect for a year 2 lesson one!