Titanic Guided Research Project

A detailed collection of slides, resource links, and teaching ideas to support your child in investigating Titanic. Learn lots of new vocabulary related to shipping, discover why she was deemed unsinkable, and investigate the lessons learned in the aftermath of Titanic’s demise. Use newspapers and advertisements of the day to learn about this tragic tale that continues to fascinate learners. Explore:

• Who designed Titanic?
• Where was Titanic built?
• How was she constructed?
• What challenges did her construction pose?
• What were her sister ships called?
• Who was aboard?
• What route did she travel?
• When did disaster strike?
• Who survived the sinking?
• What lessons were learned in the aftermath of the disaster?

Lots of suggestions for various additional learning activities, comprehensions, cloze tests, and writing tasks are included to enable your child to demonstrate their learning. There are also links to several worksheets and documents to support retrieval practice such that your child can test him/herself at a later date and so embed their learning.