Enhance your classroom's Titanic lesson with these resources and activities.
Resources
Immersion Learning's Return to Titanic program includes hands-on activities, videos and interactive online games that engage youth in science, technology and exploration. Youth will join Dr. Robert Ballard and a team of scientists as they return to the wreck of Titanic to determine how much the ship has deteriorated since its initial discovery in 1985. Science topics covered include scale drawings, buoyancy, model-building, weathering, photomosaics, remotely operated vehicles, latitude and longitude, coordinate grids, communication technology, radio waves, conservation and careers. Online resources for the program are available on Immersion's Return to Titanic webpage, and hard copies of the print curriculum and accompanying CD and DVD are available for purchase. The Return to Titanic print curriculum contains youth reading selections, activity masters and comprehensive educator notes for the program's 12 hands-on activities. The program is appropriate for use with youth in grades 1 through 8.
Learn about Dr. Ballard's 2004 return to Titanic.
Titanic Stories is designed to direct you to the most authentic information and experiences about Titanic on the island of Ireland.
Activities
Titanic Word Search
Click here for a Titanic word search that includes descriptions of some of the parts of the Titanic and the wreck site.
Under Pressure
Concept: Factors such as temperature, lack of light, and water pressure (just to name a few) make it difficult to explore the oceans. This experiment will illustrate to students that an increase in depth of water produces increased pressure.
Hypothesis Question: Will the water coming from each hole travel the same distance or will some of the jets travel farther than others?
Materials:
- Empty 1qt milk carton
- 3 identical nails
- Ruler
- Small plastic tray or margarine container
- Large plastic tray
- Tap water
- Cup for pouring water.
Procedures:
- Open the entire top of the milk carton. Push each of the three (3) nails through the cardboard on one side of the carton so that they are in a column. Make sure that the bottom nail is at least three (3) inches above the bottom and all the nails are at least one (1) inch apart.
- Place the small tray upside down in the large pan. Set the milk carton on top of the small tray so that the nails point toward the empty side of the large tray.
- Fill the milk carton with water (from the tap) all the way to the top.
- Pull all three (3) nails out of the milk carton at the same time and then slowly pour water into the milk carton so that it is always filled.
- As the water squirts out the nail holes, watch to see how far each jet goes.
- Empty milk carton and tray.
Questions:
Which water jet squirts the farthest: top, middle or bottom?
What did you observe and why did it happen?
Where do you think pressure is greatest in the ocean?
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