All About the Titanic

One morning I woke up to find the boys reading a book about machines. It contained pictures and information about all types of trucks, cars and boats. On the last page, right up in the top right hand corner was a picture of the Titanic and a couple of sentences about what happened. They kept asking questions for the rest of the morning about the Titanic and we were trying to answer them to the best of our ability, when I suddenly remembered I had a book on the Titanic that I had bought ages ago. So we went through their bookcase and finally found it. They read the book, cover to cover about 5 times that day and they were still walking around holding both books and talking about it the next day. When asked, they said they wanted to learn more about the ship. This is what we did, we learned all about the Titanic!

Check out the list of materials that we use with these printables.

This Titanic study is a great unit for children in grades 2 through 4 and even 5. It contains many pages of reading passages and then activities. Children will read about:

The Birth of the Titanic
The Size of the Titanic
Onboard the Titanic
First Voyage
Hitting the Iceberg
Icebergs
Filling with Water
The Titanic Sinks
RMS Carpathia
Survivors
The Titanic Found
After the Titanic
Captain Edward John Smith
Thomas Andrews
Bruce Ismay
Unsinkable Molly Brown
Lady Lucy Christina Duff Gordon
Elsie Doling
Rose Abbot
Timeline Picture Cards
Titanic Timeline

Then they will complete some wonderful activities:

What I Know, what I want to learn, what I learned
Titanic – The Details
The Birth of the Titanic – answer the questions
The Size of the Titanic – add answers to the circles
First Voyage – map the route of the Titanic
Write two newspaper articles
Write a Letter
Write a Menu for the Titanic
Icebergs – answer questions about the Titanic
Titanic Timeline – Look at the pictures and write a few sentences about what is happening
Cause and Effect
Morse Code
Fill in the Calendar
Write the Times on the Clocks
Research Passengers and fill in the details
Create Boarding Tickets for passengers
After the Titanic – answer the questions
Word Search
Titanic Question Cards

We completed this Titanic Unit which was so much fun.

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Here is a free Titanic Printable Pack aimed at younger children, in preschool and kindergarten. The activities included in this printable pack include: