Welcome...

... to Titanic in the Classroom. Take some time and look around the site using the menu on the left.  the Broken Arrow Enhanced Learning Center fifth and sixth graders work hard during second semester and they learned a lot.  Enjoy your tour!!

You will get to meet some of the passengers and crew in the section called Biographical Sketches and see the activities we used as we were doing our research.

Also when you see this icon on the Biographical Sketch pages, you'll hear a podcast of the Titanic passenger or crew.

You can also see our Science explorations along with photographs of the students working. You'll also see plenty of charts and graphs. We did science explorations in Buoyancy, Icebergs, Water Pressure, Bad Rivets and PhotoMosaics.

Enjoy the Titanic Timeline and browse the Titanic Database.  A Special "thank you" to Levi Sauerbrai a parent from 2006 (!) who worked long and hard on the searchable database.

Background Story

Titanic in the Classroom was originally developed by the Department of Education & Children Services, Southern Australia  www.decs.sa.gov.au. I contacted them in June 2007 to ask if I could use some of their activities in a Titanic curriculum I was writing to use in the fall.  I looked for Wayne Starick, the original webmaster, he was no where it be found.  Eventually I found Henry Legedza, Corporate Web Administrator and he informed me that they were getting ready to disassemble the site.  The Titanic in the Classroom site seemed to be the only site with a "searchable" Titanic database so I asked it I could re-construct the site.  Luckily, Mr. Legedza said "yes".  Remember that NONE of the work is mine--as you read the Inspiration section and the Source of the Data section you will see how the project took place.

Special Speaker-- We were fortunate to find out that one of our parents, Yona Schroeder, was a Titanic-buff!  She was gracious enough to come to the Center TWICE to introduce us to the Titanic's story and tell us how she became a collector of Titanic information and memorabilia

Mrs. Schroeder said:

"I can't remember when my initial fascination with the Titanic started but I've always been intrigued by the stories.  I won't mention the year, but when I was in High School, I wrote a paper on the Titanic.  In my research I came across the name of a survivor living in Ohio and I remember calling "Information" from the phone in the school office and the long distance operator gave me the phone number and address for Mr. Frank Goldsmith.  I wrote to Mr. Goldsmith and very quickly received a personal letter from him.  He also included several newspaper clippings and articles about himself and his story.  From that personal contact and the following research, I became much more interested in the history and mystery of the Titanic. 

I am a 'card carrying member' of the Titanic Historical Society and an avid collector of all things regarding the Titanic.  In addition to the handwritten letter from Mr. Goldsmith, my collection includes his personal biography; a piece of coal brought up from the site by the Ballard expedition; a movie poster in Norwegian; many books, VHS tapes and DVD's on the subject; computer games and board games; Christmas ornaments and model ship replicas".