The Sinking of Titanic

Just went through a Comprehension exercise on the sinking of  Titanic. Thought it was apt to adapt an article from the National Geographic magazine since this month marks the 100the anniversary of the sinking of the ship.

The kiddos were interested to learn more about the ship. I wanted to show them a clip with some pictures of the ship that I found on the Internet but was not able to do so due to time constraint.

Here's the clip that I found:

Some Addditional Facts about Titanic (not mentioned in the Comprehension passage):
- Titanic cost $7.5 million to build in the early part of the 20th century. It would cost about $400 million to build it today.
- It took the equivalent of a small town to build Titanic - about 14 000 workers in all.
- The passengers or the crew did not try to rescue the survivors in the water because many people were worried that the extra people would sink the lifeboats.
- The Titanic had two sister ships. The Olympic, built at the same time, was just as big but not as heavy. It was used as a troopship during World War 1 and sailed until 1935. The Brittanic, built in 1914 and used as a hospital ship during the war, was sunk in 1916.