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The Story of the Titanic

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As an educator, why should we use the Internet as a research tool? On a practical note the Internet provides plentiful, inexpensive, and amazingly quick information retrieval to even the most isolated scholar. Another advantage of the Internet is that it can turn a once considered boring activity, research, into a motivated learning experience, particularly for younger learners.

The goal of this page is not to introduce amazing new facts or information about the Story of the Titanic, but rather to form one place where a person can come to find the very best pages on a very popular research topic and historical event. Through these sources and provided research activities, it is hoped that motivated learning can occur for you and your students. Good Luck and feel free to E-Mail me with suggestions.

Titanic Historical Pages

(??)Titanic Cover Story

This is a picture of the front page of the April 16, 1912 Times Herald. It is immediately linked to a transcript of this cover page story as written the day after the disaster.

The Titanic Timeline

This site gives you a complete timeline of the Titanic's history from conception through 1994.

(??)Technical Specifications and Facts

This is a short collection of Titanic specifications with good links to other pages of Titanic interest.

R.M.S. Titanic 83 Years Later

This article uses the Titanic to make an argument for the use and preservation of newspapers for historical research. The idea being that tangible newsprint makes an event like the Titanic disaster seem much more real to the reader.

Books and Movies about the Titanic

1912 Illustrated Book on the Titanic

This is a picture of the book The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters. There are also references to Titanic memorabilia and other links.

Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy

This site has a short description of this book along with a few Titanic images.

The Titanic: Lost and Found

This is a very brief description of a children's book that chronicles the events surrounding the Titanic.

Movies and Documentaries

A short list of movies and documentaries that have been made about the Titanic.

Titanic (1997)

Information about the Titanic movie by James Cameron to be released next year. Written by Peter Cox from England, this offers a little different perspective.

How and Why the Titanic Sank

(??)The Sinking of the Titanic

This very detailed site has a large number of downloadable graphics that explain the many factors that led up to the sinking of the 'unsinkable' ship. For those researchers interested in What Ifs this is a must site with much discussion on how things could have been much, much different with very few events changing.

(??)Sinking of the Unsinkable Titanic

This site offers a very organized tour of the Titanic disaster, answering many questions along with the most obvious, why did the Titanic sink?

The Titanic and its Discovery

A Tribute to the R.M.S. Titanic

This award winning site offers wonderful links to pages covering all areas of Titanic lore including many pages that deal with the re-discovery of the Titanic.

The Titanic Resource

This commercial grade site offers a complete chronicle of the Titanic adventure. Warning though, these pages are highly graphical in nature which, while impressive, will mean slow viewing for most browsers.

The Titanic: Table of Contents

This site offers information about the Titanic in table menu style. If you are looking for specific information about the Titanic in a hurry, this is the site to use!

Titanic Software

A Night to Remember

This CD sold by the CD-ROM Shop is a collection of one of the most well known Titanic experts, Walter Lords. It will run on both IBM and MACINTOSH multi-media systems.

(??)Titanic-Adventure Out Of Time

This CD-ROM package sold as a commercial game could be used as an outstanding educational package. The decks of the Titanic as well as incredible amounts of data about the ship and crew have been included in this role playing game.

Research Activities

How could the Titanic disaster have been avoided???

This activity has students study the Titanic via the Web and use the information they find to overt disaster.

Write a newspaper article about the Titanic disaster one year later.

This role playing exercise will have students pretend they are newspaper reporters writing a story one year after the accident based on what they have learned on the WEB.

What type of passenger did the Titanic carry and who survived?

This exercise will have the students do research on the Internet to determine what type of people were aboard the Titanic and who survived the sinking.