Titanic Study Guide 7 - 12

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Post Primary Junior Cycle Teacher’s Guide structured around Titanic-based classroom lessons and educational tour activities. It outlines artefact exploration, map-based geography tasks for locating Titanic-related places, and student activities that connect passengers to local communities and family history. The guide includes before/after/both-tour components, student activity pages, chart-driven research using Encyclopedia Titanica, and extension tasks such as dialogues, skits, biographies, advertisements, and artefact “reading” to practice historical conclusions.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages18

Reading Time45 min

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Lesson 1: Artefacts

Student Activity page 45

Lesson 2: Find Titanic!

Student activity page 47

Lesson 3: What Does Titanic Have to do With Me?

Student Activity page 49

CLASSROOM LESSON PLANS AND EDUCATIONAL TOUR ACTIVITIES Post Primary Junior Cycle Teacher’s Guide 1. Artefacts 2. Find Titanic! 3. What Does Titanic Have to do With Me? 4. Says Who?! Primary Source Analysis 5. !at is SO 1912! 6. Lifestyles ofthe Rich and Famous 7. Sports Centre 8. !ey’re Playing Our Song 9. I Can Do Better !an !at! 10. !at’s Not How it Happened! 11. Time Will Tell !is exhibit makes me want to dive down to Titanic myself!” POST PRIMARY JUNIOR CYCLE !e lessons in the Post Primary Junior Cycle Teacher’s Guide arespeciﬁcally geared towards English, History, and Geography. However, a unit on Titanic can be easily incorporated into many subjects. In the Appendix, you will ﬁnd a list of several recommended integrated activities for all levels, especially addressing maths and science and including the link for our comprehensive Titanic Science curriculum. !e targeted class group is 1st to 3rd year students. Teachers may also want to consult the Primary School Guides. Some of the lessons have components that must be done before the educational tour to Titanic:!e Artefact Exhibition, some are for after the tour, and some are for both. Most also have activities to be completed by the students while at the Exhibition. Please preview the lessons carefully so everyone will be prepared. Feel free to select all or part of the lessons. Older students may be able to complete all the work in the Guide designed to be done at the Exhibition, while one activity may be enough for the younger students. Some lessons include reproducible Student Activity pages which you will ﬁnd at the end of the lesson descriptions and instructions. Lesson 1: Artefacts Student Activity page 45 Students will find 5 artefacts at Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition whose owners have been identi"ed. Most of these will be found in the Memorial Gallery room at the end of the Exhibition. !e worksheet provides a chart for recording data. After the educational tour, have students complete the chart by researching the lives of those individuals on the passenger lists available at Encyclopedia Titanica [www.encyclopedia-titanica.org](www.encyclopedia-titanica.org) under the “People”section or via their “Search” function. 1. Once the chart part of the activity is complete, the information on the people and their personal belongings can be used for a variety of activities. Individual students create a written dialog amongst the 4 people from their chart. Groups create and/or perform skits featuring one or all oftheir people. For example, imagine Captain Smith has invited these people to dine at the Captain’s table. Create a dialogue for their conversation . Students demonstrate their knowledge of contemporary politics and issues by incorporating those facts in the characters’conversations . Rewrite the information into short biographies. Draw or "nd portraits of the people as well as the pictures of the artefact as illustrations. Write an eyewitness journal entry as one of the people. !ese activities can also be used in several other biography-related lessons in this Guide. 2. In Part 2, the artefacts the students researched will be used in an original advertisement for a Titanic Exhibition. Formats could include both illustrated and spoken ads. 3. In Part 3, students will practise “reading” artefacts to see how historians draw conclusions from them. Lesson 2: Find Titanic! Student activity page 47 This is a geography activity that requires locating and labeling places on a map. You will need to provide a black-line master map for your students to use or you can expand the project by having them create their own maps. Make sure the map shows the Atlantic Ocean with land on either side. Students will need an atlas. !is activity can be done before or after your educational tour. Instructions are on the Student Activity page. !e amount of detail expected on the map can vary with your students’ skill level. Make sure the

FAQs

What is Lesson 1: Artefacts mainly designed to do?

Students locate and research Titanic artefacts and their identified owners, record findings in a chart, and then use the information for dialogues, skits, biographies, portraits, and an eyewitness journal entry.

How do students complete Lesson 2: Find Titanic!?

Students use a black-line master map or create their own, label Atlantic Ocean and surrounding land, and include longitude and latitude lines, with guidance to show Titanic’s route.

How does Lesson 3 connect Titanic passengers to students’ lives?

Students relate passengers to their local community and their own family history using charts and questions, completing parts during the tour by finding artefacts linked to specific individuals and using online research beforehand.

Oct 28, 2026

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