How Do You Teach Students About The Titanic?
• Search your local library or browse the web for credible sources of information about the disaster. Since there are many popular myths and misconceptions about the Titanic, make sure your research is as accurate as possible so you don’t relay unclear information. • Create a study guide for the Titanic unit. Put together a workbook containing stories, facts, and other information, as well as questions to answer or a map of the ship’s route to draw. This will be a helpful source of information for students to review if they need help understanding something. • Suggest a few age-appropriate Titanic books and stories, both fiction and non-fiction. Author and historian Walter Lord’s novel A Night to Remember is a good reading assignment choice for older students. Younger students may enjoy a fictional Titanic novella that also tells the historical details well, or one of the many books related to the subject geared at elementary-aged students. • Watch a Titanic documentary in class. Have
