Slide 1: The Titanic
Slide 2: Questions
Have you seen the movie “Titanic”? Did you like it?
How much do you know about the real Titanic that sailed 100 years ago?
Slide 3: Goals for Today
•Learn some of the facts about the real Titanic.
•Pretend that we are passengers aboard the Titanic and make some tough decisions.
Slide 4: The Boat
•Full Name: RMS Titanic (RMS stands for Royal Mail Steamship)
•She was built between 1909 and 1911 in Belfast, England.
•At 269 meters long, 29 meters wide, and 32 meters tall, she was the largest ship afloat at that time.
Slide 5: The Journey
•Her maiden voyage, or first trip, took place between Southampton, UK and New York City, US on April 10th, 1912.
•During this trip, she carried 2,224 people onboard.
•Her passengers included some of the richest people in the world, as well as over a thousand emigrants from all over Europe who were seeking a new life in North America.
Slide 6: The Disaster
•On April 14th, 1912, at 11:40pm (ship's time), a crewman spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of Titanic and told the bridge.
•It was too late; the Titanic hit the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline.
•Over the next two and a half hours, the ship filled with water and sank.
Slide 7: The Disaster
•Passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partly filled.
•Just before 2:20a.m. Titanic broke up and sank with over a thousand people still on board.
•Those in the water died within minutes from hypothermia caused by the freezing ocean.
•The 710 survivors were taken aboard from the lifeboats by RMS Carpathia a few hours later.
Slide 8: What would you do?
•There was no Jack or Rose on the actual Titanic, but there were thousands of real people and not enough lifeboats for everyone.
•Now I will give everyone a piece of paper. This is your “Titanic personality.” This paper includes the name and description of a real person onboard the Titanic. For the next few minutes, you will get to be this person.
Slide 9: What would you do?
•Now that you all have your Titanic personalities, get into groups of 6-8 people.
•Share your Titanic personalities with the other members of your group.
•Because 2/3rd of the people onboard the Titanic died that night, you can only save 2 members of your group. Who will you choose? Why?
Slide 10: What would you do?
Survivors:
Rhoda Mary Abbott
Olaus Jørgensen Abelseth
Charlotte Appleton
Léontine Pauline Aubart
Lawrence Beesley
Joseph Groves Boxhall
Harold Sydney Bride
Molly Brown
Vera Dick
Frederick Fleet
Dorothy Gibson
Lady Duff Gordon
Esther Ada Hart
Charles George Hendrickson
J. Bruce Ismay
Mary Margaret Marvin
Madeleine Violet Mellinger
Kate Phillips
Lillian Renouf
Hannah Riordan
Eloise Smith
Douglas Spedden
Amy Zillah Elsie Stanley
Constance Mirium West
Marie Grice Young
Slide 11: What would you do?
Died:
Eugene Joseph Abbott
Bessie Waldo Allison
John Jacob Astor
Arthur Barratt
Father Robert James Bateman
John D. Baumann
Thomas Roussel Davids Byles
Augustus Charles Coombs
Frank Couch
William Edward Farquharson
Annie Clemmer Funk
Alfred Gaskell
Benjamin Guggenheim
Wallace Hartley
Vincenz Kink
Simon Kutscher
Kristina Sofia Laitinen
Frances Marie Lefebvre
Mathilde Lefebvre
René Aimé Lievens
Daniel Marvin
Doctor Ernest Moraweck
Samuel Morley
William Francis Norman O'Loughlin
Alma Cornelia Pålsson
Paul Folke Pålsson
Giuseppe Peduzzi
Thomas Charles Prowse Reed
Captain E.J. Smith
Lucien Smith
Ida Strauss
Dorothy Ann Turpin
Arthur Ward
Ennis Hastings Watson
Henriette Yvois
Slide 12: Finally…
•The sinking of the Titanic caused the deaths of hundreds of people in one of the deadliest peacetime water disasters in history.
•Of the 2,224 people onboard the ship, 710 (32%) were saved and 1,514 (68%) died in the disaster.
•Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history, her memory kept alive by books, songs, movies, and memorials.