Titanic Topic Enrichment Pack

Investigate and explore the infamous Titanic with this cross-curricular pack designed to captivate and inspire your Year 5/6 children! This Titanic KS2 Topic Enrichment Pack offers seven exciting lessons across Art, Computing, Geography and Science, all thoughtfully designed to help your class build essential skills while exploring this dramatic period of history.

Your class will:

• Explore perspective and how colour can change the mood of an artwork, and recreate a 3-D model of the Titanic
• Create a database of passenger information from the Titanic
• Use latitude and longitude co-ordinates to locate important places in the Titanic's journey
• Investigate what an iceberg is, and explore why icebergs and ships float.

Whether you’re looking to enrich your existing Titanic topic or deliver a mini cross-curricular project, this pack provides everything you need—lesson plans, slides, activity sheets and resources—ready to download and teach.

Why not upgrade to our Titanic Topic Bundle – perfect if you're looking for a cross-curricular approach to your teaching.

How to Draw the Titanic

Teach your KS2 class how to draw the Titanic using perspective in their artwork with this ready-to-teach Art lesson for Year 5 & Year 6. The included slideshow presentation explores what perspective in art is and how they can use vanishing points and construction lines to give their drawings a sense of depth.

They can then put these skills to the test as they draw the Titanic using the techniques they have just learnt about. They can also construct a model of the Titanic from a 3-D net and use this to create some tricky perspective photography!

Everything you need to teach this Art lesson is included in this lesson pack, including a lesson plan, slideshow, differentiated activity ideas and a range of handy printable resources. So, if you want to teach your class how to draw the Titanic, you've come to the right place!

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Creating Moods using Colour

Introduce your Year 5 or Year 6 class to the German painter Willy Stöwer and his iconic painting of the Titanic disaster in this ready-to-teach Art lesson. Your children will have the chance to explore how later edits of his work have had colour added to them and discuss how this changes the effect and mood of the painting. The included slideshow presentation guides your class through some examples and explains how colour can affect what a painting portrays.

During their independent Art activities, your class will then be challenged to use what they have learnt about colour and mood in paintings to recreate Willy Stöwer's iconic painting for themselves, choosing colours to reflect the mood they want to evoke.

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Making the Titanic out of Clay

Teach your class how to make a Titanic model from clay in this KS2 Art lesson for Year 5 & Year 6. The included slideshow presentation challenges your class to think about the features of the Titanic, before demonstrating some handy techniques to use when working with clay

Your class can then try their hand at using these techniques to make their own model of the Titanic from clay. Alternatively, they can work in groups to make models of the Titanic from recycled materials.

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Sorting Titanic Passengers

This Titanic Computing lesson for KS2 children will give your class the chance to learn more about the Titanic passengers aboard the famous vessel as they organise, sort and analyse data on the Titanic's passengers and crew.

During the teaching input, your class will use information cards with facts about the Titanic passengers and crew listed, establishing that finding and sorting information in this format is not the easiest! They will then examine how spreadsheets can simplify and enhance the effectiveness of this task.

During their independent activity, they can then use the information on the cards to create their own spreadsheet of information about 50 Titanic passengers.

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Titanic Route Map

Plot the Titanic route on a map with your KS2 class, using lines of latitude and longitude to describe the location of different places that were significant to the Titanic's journey. During the included slideshow presentation, your Year 5 or Year 6 class will find out what lines of latitude and longitude are, and how to use coordinates to plot locations on a world map.

During their independent learning, your class can then use what they have learnt to identify places of significance to the Titanic route and plot them on a map using coordinates.

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Why do Icebergs Float?

In this Titanic Science lesson for Year 5 and Year 6, your KS2 class will have the chance to investigate the different reasons icebergs float and how density affects sinking and floating objects. Take your class’s understanding further by investigating how the amount of salt in a saltwater solution affects the density of the water and can make objects which normally sink, float.

This Iceberg Density lesson comes ready to teach with a detailed lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activities and a range of printable resources.

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How do Ships Float?

In this Titanic Buoyancy lesson for KS2 children, your class will explore buoyancy and why ships float when a paper clip sinks in water. Your Year 5 & Year 6 children will investigate the Archimedes Principle, buoyancy and water displacement as they find an answer to this question.

During their independent learning, they can then express what they have found out about buoyancy in relation to the Titanic, as well as carry out a practical investigation into water-tight bulkheads.

During the plenary, they will then use what they have learnt to explain why the Titanic sunk after an iceberg pierced holes in the side, filling the hull with water.

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