A full lesson on the Titanic, focusing on the individuals, objects and legacy of the event. Through the enquiry of ‘How should the Titanic be remembered’? The aim of the lesson is for students to understand what happened the night the Titanic sunk, who was on board and what changes were made after the disaster. Students do this through an engaging video, interesting worksheets with questions and creating their own museum display / information page on the disaster. There is opportunity to explore the National Archives website in the lesson and to discuss how tragic events are remembered and what should be placed in museums to commemorate and educate people about historical events. The plenary asks students to consider the emotional impact of the Titanic and explain their feelings towards what they have learnt in the lesson. This lesson is a KS3 lesson with clear objectives, a key enquiry question. All information sheets and resources are included on the slides. It downloads in a powerpoint format so can be adapted easily. This lesson includes: An engaging starter Short, interesting video as an overview of the event A worksheet to understand what the experience of passengers was through individual stories and objects A final creative task (could be written) where students choose an aspect of the Titanic to focus on for a museum display A review based plenary that engages with students thoughts and feelings towards their learning about the Titanic.

This lesson investigates why the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic sank in April 1912. It looks at a number of mistakes that were made and asks students to discuss and evaluate which was the most important cause of the sinking. This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2 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, , a consolidation explain written question and a plenary. Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion. This lesson can be used as a part of our growing bundle on ‘Disasters’, which includes the Aberfan Disaster and Chernobyl. Please take a look at our growing TES shop where you can find free or inexpensive lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/DiscoveringHistory If you are happy with your resource, PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW! If, by any chance, you encounter any issues with the resource, please email us at discoveringhistoryuk@gmail.com and we’ll try to solve them for you. We have a wide range of KS3 & GCSE History lessons on their way, please keep an eye out - follow our social media pages for freebies, new resources and interesting facts! Got a lesson suggestion? Or looking for something in particular? Email us!

PowerPoint and chronology card sort activity on the topic Titanic to introduce the details of the ship Other work sheets relating to why the titanic sunk and who was to blame investigation card sort and worksheet

A4 Double-sided Titanic Reading Comprehension. Differentiated question sheets (higher 16, lower 10) with answers. 1 SAT style multiple choice question sheet. Answers are included for all levels and styles of questions. Reading sheet is a comprehensive overview which includes information about the construction, maiden voyage, passengers and crew, life aboard the Titanic, disaster, sinking, aftermath, and legacy.

A good starter for any work or topic about Titanic - a range of sources with a nice option to colour code and categorise … You may also find useful … Titanic Investigation – who was to blame? https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12316415 History Skills + Titanic https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12287899 Holocaust Full Pack - 100 page teaching pack + Anne Frank + activities + skills https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12649611 First World War 150 + Page Teaching Pack https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-10002492 World War 2 PowerPoint https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-11391771 Skills Unit Introduction https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11116434 What is Bias? https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12574124 Questioning Primary Sources https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11114807 Phil@icHistory Tes Shop https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Ichistory

55 Titanic passenger (and some crew) information cards. Each card shares a photo of the passenger (or crew member) and gives information on nationality, age, class, ticket number and much much more! A brilliant resource when looking at who was on board the Titanic. A supporting document also states whether the person survived or not.

Aimed at KS3 but could be adapted for KS2/KS4.

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.

A fantastic statistics project based on passengers of the Titanic, that works with small groups, individual students & large classes. The data has been differentiated to suit all levels of ability/attainment. Zip file includes an excel spreadsheet containing the real data for over 2000 passengers of the Titanic (including links to the lifeboats giving some real interesting information!), a booklet containing frequency tables and graphs for groups that need more support and teachers notes to support with delivering the activity.

An easy to follow lesson on Titanic. Students review pieces of evidence and categorise and organise this these into a diamond 9 (or score each piece of evidence) to determine who they think was to blame for the Titanic disaster. They follow this up with a report writing activity to explain their theory and also to offer suggestions on how future disasters might be avoided. Literacy support and differentiated materials/ resources are included. As always there are clear instructions and high quality differentiated resources. These lessons take many hours to plan and create so please leave a review if you have time :)

Group lesson, pupils work in groups to analyse sources which help them decide who was to blame for the disaster - they annotate each source before moving onto the next. At the end of the lesson pupils are asked to evaluate who was most to blame, this task is levelled with different tasks for each attainment level.

A fully resourced set of lessons taking students through the story of the Titanic and who was responsible for the scale of the disaster.

This PowerPoint presentation marks the anniversary of the sinking of Titanic on 15th April 1912. It contains slides with a brief summary of events, two posters, an original poem and 4 follow up activity worksheets- comprehension, gap fill, acrostic poem template, postcard template. Suitable for KS2 / ESL/ SEN/ History and English classes.

Titanic: These Titanic cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the Titanic. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. These cootie catchers contain the following vocabulary terms: Captain Edward John Smith, Thomas Andrews, White Star Line, RMS Carpathia, John Jacob Astor IV, SS Californian, The "unsinkable" Molly Brown, William Murdoch ***** Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers in the folllowing topics: ***** United States History: ♦ 13 Colonies ♦ American Heroes ♦ American Revolution ♦ American Symbols ♦ Benjamin Franklin ♦ Bill of Rights ♦ Black History Month ♦ Boston Tea Party ♦ Branches of Government ♦ Christopher Columbus ♦ Civil Rights ♦ Civil War ♦ Cold War ♦ Columbian Exchange ♦ Constitution ♦ Declaration of Independence ♦ Dust Bowl ♦ Economics ♦ First Thanksgiving ♦ French and Indian War ♦ Gilded Age ♦ Great Depression ♦ Immigration ♦ Industrial Revolution ♦ Inventors ♦ Jamestown ♦ Lewis and Clark ♦ Lost Colony of Roanoke ♦ Louisiana Purchase ♦ Loyalists or Patriots ♦ Martin Luther King ♦ Native Americans ♦ Oregon Trail ♦ Pilgrims ♦ Progressive Era ♦ Reconstruction ♦ Spanish American War ♦ Texas Revolution ♦ Underground Railroad ♦ War of 1812 ♦ Westward Expansion ♦ World War I ♦ World War II World History: ♦ Absolute Monarchs ♦ European Explorers ♦ Famous Explorers ♦ French Revolution ♦ Holocaust ♦ Middle Ages ♦ Renaissance ♦ Crusades ♦ Titanic ♦ World War I ♦ World War II Ancient History: ♦ China ♦ Egypt ♦ Greece ♦ India ♦ Rome ♦ Incas ♦ Aztecs ♦ Maya's ♦ Mesopotamia ♦ Vikings

Titanic: This Titanic booklet is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research or show what they have learned by writing different facts on the provided blank lines about each Historical Figure and term Associated with the Titanic. A completed booklet with answers is included. This Titanic Booklet contains the following: 1. Assembly Instructions for the booklet 2. Completed facts for each of the following Historical Figures: Captain Edward John Smith, Thomas Andrews, The "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, William McMaster Murdoch, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor IV, RMS Carpathia 3. Blank versions with lines for students to write their own facts. 4. A smaller version of #1, 2, & 3 to fit smaller pieces of construction paper ***** Do a search for my other interactive notebooks in the folllowing topics: ***** U.S. History: ♦ 13 Colonies ♦ American Heroes ♦ American Revolution ♦ American Symbols ♦ Bill of Rights ♦ Black History Month ♦ Boston Tea Party ♦ Branches of Government ♦ Christopher Columbus ♦ Civil Rights ♦ Civil War ♦ Cold War ♦ Columbian Exchange ♦ Declaration of Independence ♦ French and Indian War ♦ Gilded Age ♦ Great Depression ♦ Immigration ♦ Inventors ♦ Jamestown ♦ Lewis and Clark ♦ Lost Colony of Roanoke ♦ Louisiana Purchase ♦ Loyalists or Patriots ♦ Martin Luther King ♦ Native Americans ♦ Pilgrims ♦ Progressive Era ♦ Reconstruction ♦ Spanish American War ♦ Texas Revolution ♦ Underground Railroad ♦ War of 1812 ♦ Westward Expansion ♦ World War I ♦ World War II World History: Get all 11 (35% OFF) in the Bundle! ♦ Absolute Monarchs ♦ Crusades ♦ European Explorers ♦ Famous Explorers ♦ French Revolution ♦ Holocaust ♦ Middle Ages ♦ Renaissance ♦ Titanic ♦ World War I ♦ World War II Ancient History: Get all 10 (35% OFF) in the Bundle! ♦ China ♦ Egypt ♦ Greece ♦ India ♦ Rome ♦ Incas ♦ Aztecs ♦ Maya ♦ Mesopotamia ♦ Vikings

Lesson and resources and tasks on the Titanic. Kids love the sources.

A range of lessons based around the Titanic. Made for KS3 English / Literacy but could also be used in form time or PSHE.

The information sheets about different topics relating to English-speaking countries. Titanic tragedy - A Titanic story has been intriguing for people of all ages. Tis is a story about family who died in the accident. It is a nice bit to use and teach past continuous. You can also ask your students to underline the past continuous or retell the story.

A range of writing, speaking and listening tasks based on 'The Titanic' year 9 transition piece.

A Powerpoint consisting of six lessons. Can be high level Y8 or Y9. Worksheets linked to the PowerPoint attached.

A neat activity that explains corroboration and why it is important in history but also in daily life … Supports other Titanic skills resources