The Titanic Museum Attraction provides hands-on learning in an unusual setting, a giant ocean liner! Teaching guides are available in the following subjects to help educational groups get the most out of their visit to the Titanic.
Gigantic Learning Experiences
History comes to life the moment you step into the ship. But the Titanic Museum Attraction offers student groups so much more than that. Become passengers of the fateful voyage and learn about cabin classes, crew member jobs, what a workday looked like and what they ate.
Arts & Social Studies
Students can become news reporters and create front-page news articles from April 15, 1912, or poets by crafting an acrostic poem based on the word Titanic. Learn Morse code and how warning messages were received. They can also design safety brochures for the ship to include best practices in the event of a catastrophe.
Science
Research buoyancy and why the Titanic sank by delving into how vessels float, why ice floats and what water is actually made of. Discuss the water temperature (-2.2 degrees Celsius) and how it translates to Fahrenheit. Touch the cold water to understand just how harrowing the Titanic experience was for passengers and crew. Conduct an experience on the relationship between depth and pressure and how it correlates to why the ship sank, with an exercise that becomes a hands-on lesson in physics.
Geography
Map the Titanic’s route and learn key locations in the ship’s history, such as Belfast, Ireland, where it was built. Students can read the ship’s and the iceberg’s log positions and hypothesize how the Titanic’s speed affected its ability to avoid icebergs.
On the global map, explore ports worldwide where passengers boarded the Titanic and learn about the people and places of significance.
Math
Use Titanic data to create and answer math problems. Draw a scale model of the ship using specific dimensions. Create a graph of the provisions for passengers and crew, such as fresh meat, vegetables and fruit. Calculate the distance between Southampton and New York using the ship’s speed to figure out how long it would have taken to reach New York Harbor.
Religion
Learn about religious heroes, such as Father Francis Brown, who captured extensive photos of the Titanic before it sank. Explore lessons from scripture that delve into fear and doubt, hope, and salvation. Pair the experience with Titanic Bible trivia with questions and answers available in the Titanic Educational Guide.
