Miss Hartwell's RMS Titanic Web Quest

                                           
Photo from http://www.starway.org/Titanic/  May 4, 2008

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Introduction:
Hello 5th grade class!  We are going to be using a web quest to look into the lives of the passengers of the RMS Titanic.  The School’s News Channel wants to know what really happened on the ship.  Each student will have a different role and will be making an iMovie where there will be an interview of a survivor.
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Task:
Your job will be to keep a journal of events that happened on the Titanic.  You will use your roles on the ship to do this.  Using the different websites, you will also find out what the layout of the Titanic was and how it affected its voyage.  Using both of these assignments we will create an iMovie of the interview with a survivor.
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Photos from http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Image_Gallery&content_type_id=50014&display_order=5&mini_id=1067
May 4, 2008

Process:
The different roles will be a crew member, an upper class passenger, and an immigrant who is riding in lower class.  Keeping a journal and writing what your schedule was like on the ship as well as any interactions you had with other passengers is key for  this presentation. These journals will be used to see how each passenger dealt with the disaster.   The upper class will be able to provide an account of the social events of the voyage.  The crew members will be able to provide a detailed look at the layout and the physical aspect of the ship.  The immigrants and lower class will be able to provide a look at the differences of how they were treated compared to the upper class. The final project will be an iMovie of a survivor from the Titanic.  There will be a panel of interviewers who have different experiences.  Some will be those that dealt with the crew of the Titanic, some will be those of the upper class, and the one being interviewed will be an immigrant who came to America by way of the Titanic.

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Photo from http://www.history.com/minisites/titanic/  May 4, 2008
 

Sources:
The following links will give you a look at the passengers and the structure of the Titanic:
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/  This website gives a brief biography for some of the passengers of the Titanic.   It also includes deck plans and the design of the ship.  This site will work with every role of this project because it gives accounts of immigrants as well as crew members.
http://www.titanic1.org/  This site includes some articles that are written about the Titanic and her destruction.  These articles are great primary resources because they are taken from the time the Titanic sunk.  There are some articles about myths of the Titanic that most students would find interesting and informative.
http://www.pbs.org/lostliners/titanic.html This site has two articles about the ship and it’s destruction.  One of the articles contains facts about how new technology has added to our understanding of the Titanic’s structure.
http://www.titanicstory.com  This site has a lot of perspectives on different issues of the Titanic. There is a timeline that would help students with their journals and what went on during the Titanic’s voyage.  There are also great links that are very interesting.

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