Titanic Ticket Activity with Real Names (Full Lesson)

The Titanic Ticket activity has real names of passengers and crew, to bring any study of this tradegy alive. This is a very popular lesson that never fails to catch the imagination of a class and they will talk about it for years to come.

When you download you get:

• 30 tickets with the names of 30 different real passengers and crew, including well-known names like Captain Smith, First Officer Murdoch and Bruce Ismay.

• Each ticket says the name and class of travel.

• The number of passengers in each class matches the percentages in each class on board the Titanic when she sank.

• It also includes a page of information for you as the teacher to make it easy for you to facilitate discussion. This gives you information about key passengers, a list of who survived and died, as well as the stats for each class of travel.

• As a full lesson you also get a 36 slide PowerPoint with images, sources and information on to introduce the sinking of the Titanic and setup the tasks.

• 14 Sources on the Titanic, at the end of the PowerPoint, which can be either printed or shown on the PowerPoint.

• Bonus: Menus and Table signs for each class of travel.

• New updated version 2023

Once you have downloaded the product, print out the tickets ready for your students to be issued as they enter the classroom. Use the PowerPoint to introduce the topic and tasks for the lesson. The Teacher’s information sheet will make facilitating the whole class discussion quick and easy, with no additional preparation required.

The tickets hook the students every time and leads on beautifully to the enquiry question of why so many people died when the Titanic sank.