Titanic Project in Clontuskert

As you know the sinking of the Titanic happened on this day 100 years ago. Before Easter the students in Clontuskert learned all about the disaster. These are some of the online tools they used to learn about Titanic. Let us know what you think of them:

Worksheets for use in class: http://www.historyonthenet.com/Lessons/worksheets/titanic.htm

Here is a timeline of events in the ship’s history: http://www.theteachersguide.com/Titanictimeline.html

We learned a huge amount about the different classes on Titanic when we played this game: http://www.discovery.com/guides/history/titanic/Titanic/titanic.html

We used this to find some facts on Titanic: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/

This site has lots of photos of the wreck: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0411/articles/mainarticle.html

These lesson plans focus on the 2004 expedition to the RMS Titanic: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04titanic/edu/edu.html

This is a link to the online Titanic museum: http://www.onlinetitanicmuseum.com/index.html

More Titanic lessons for teachers: http://www.theteachersguide.com/Titanic.html

Above shows the figures for those that survived etc: http://www.anesi.com/titanic.htm

These are some of the videos we have watched about the disaster. These have helped us learn more about the sinking. Theories are being changed and developed all the time about the sinking.

This is a CGI of the most recent theory of how it flooded. This video is from National Geographic and is part of the Final Word: Titanic 100 Documentary with James Cameron

This is the full version of the Documentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWnwIQQ0mJc
This video below tells of a recent theory of how refraction of light due to the weather conditions on the night contributed to the sinking of the Titanic. Refraction is like when you see a mirage; it is the bending of light when it travels through one medium to another.

This is the full documentary with Tim Maltin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWnwIQQ0mJc

This week we have been following the Titanic Real Time feed here:
http://twitter.com/#!/titanic_live
This has been fantastic as it has given a blow by blow account of events as they happened from the 10th of April to the 15th of April 1912.

Below, the film is from 1987 and is of Eva Hart was then one of the last survivors of the Titanic. Just a brief glimpse into the events that are 100 years old today.

This is the second part of the interview with Eva Hart:

Part three of the Eva Hart story: