Hi everyone, and welcome to our lesson today.

I'm so glad that you've made the choice to be here.

My name is Ms. Mullins and today we're going to be doing a research lesson.

So I'm really looking forward to seeing how we all get on.

In today's lesson, you will be gathering information about the Titanic from a range of different sources.

Here are some key words we'll be using, research, primary source, secondary source.

Research is the detailed study of a subject.

A primary source is a source that gives original information from the time of the event.

And a secondary source is a source written or created after the event that gives information about it.

Today we're going to be researching the Titanic in preparation for writing a journalistic report.

First of all, we're going to be learning about different sources of information, and then we will move on to conducting some research about the Titanic.

The purpose of research is to find out information about a topic.

It is vital that we research the subject of our journalistic report, so that we can write confidently and factually about the report.

If we think about it in real life situations, if a journalist were to write a news report about an event that they didn't really fully understand or have all of the information for, that would make the journalistic report quite likely to be less accurate, or it may have some gaps in knowledge, that then readers would then feel that perhaps the journalist was not so credible, or the report was not such an informative source of information.

So for us to be able to achieve the purpose of our journalistic report, which is to inform our reader about something, we need to have as much information about that topic or about the event as possible.

We can find out information about a topic using a variety of sources of information.

The purpose of research is to.

Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you spotted that the purpose of research is to learn more about the topic and to ensure a factual, accurate understanding of the topic.

Now, the purpose of research is not for us to get to use the internet.

We might use the internet when we're researching something, but that's not actually what the purpose of research is.

We can also use different sources of information other than the internet to find out information.

Primary sources give original information and come from the time period being studied.

Primary sources may include relevant news reports, objects, photographs, or paperwork from the time period or of the event.

Which of these is not an example of a primary source? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you spotted that a book written about an event is not an example of a primary source, that's because that book was written after the event happened.

It was not from the event.

It didn't bring original information about the event.

It used other primary sources.

The author used other primary sources to gather information and then write the book.

Secondary sources do not give original information, but they interpret information from primary sources, just like the book about an event that we just talked about.

Secondary sources may include books written about the event, or documentaries, or films made about it.

Which of these is not an example of a secondary source? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you spotted that an eye-witness account of the event is an example of a primary source.

That's because it's original information about the event that came firsthand from the moment of the event.

Now, it's time for your task.

Sort the sources of information into primary sources.

So original sources of information from the time of the event, and secondary sources, which are not original sources of information.

Let's begin by reading them through.

So an essay about the subject, a notebook taken from the time of the event, photographs taken at the event, and a textbook about the subject.

Pause the video now while you sort these sources of information into primary sources and secondary sources.

Well done.

Great work, everyone.

So the examples of primary sources of information were a notebook taken from the time of the event and photographs taken at the event.

Examples of secondary sources were an essay about the subject and a textbook about the subject.

Well done, everyone.

So now we've been learning about different sources of information.

We're now going to be researching the Titanic.

We will be researching some general information about the Titanic.

So we're not going to go into loads and loads of specific detail about aspects of the Titanic.

We're going to just learn about some general key information that we need to help us write our report.

This is key information to find out, which includes answers to these questions.

What was the Titanic? Where and when was it built? Where did it set sail from? And what happened to the Titanic? We need to know this information before we can move on with planning our journalistic report.

And as we move through our planning stage, we will then encounter more and more information when we need more specific details.

First of all, we're gonna start with what was the Titanic? <v ->The Titanic was a luxury British steam-powered ship.

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The Titanic was the largest ship ever built at the time.

It was 269 metres long and 28 metres wide.

And actually even more than that, it was the largest manmade moving object that had ever been built ever.

So it was a huge moment in history.

The ship was declared unsinkable because such a large, powerful ship had never been built before.

So many people at the time were extremely excited by the Titanic.

And they said it was so safe because it was such a strong, powerful ship.

It had steam-powered engines and nothing like this had ever been built before.

And many people felt that it was unsinkable, that meant it could not sink.

True or false? The Titanic is the largest ship that has ever been built.

Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you've spotted that this is false.

Now, this is a little bit of a trick statement, okay? Use the sentences here to justify your answer.

Is it A or B? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you spotted that the Titanic was the largest ship ever built at the time, which was 1912.

Since then, larger ships have been built.

So there was a point in history where the Titanic was the largest ship ever built, but now in modern times, other larger ships have since been built.

But at the time, so in 1912, everyone was extremely excited because it was the largest ship that had ever been built.

Let's return to the general questions we need to answer in our research.

So we now know what the Titanic was.

Now, we're going to think about where and when it was built.

So the Titanic was built in Belfast, in Northern Ireland at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard.

Now, this is a particularly interesting fact for me 'cause this is where I grew up.

So we can see here a map.

And in red we've got Northern Ireland.

And this is a picture of the Harland and Wolff Shipyard.

And if you've ever been to Northern Ireland and flown in perhaps on an aeroplane into Belfast, you actually can see these huge cranes with the H and W for Harland and Wolff.

So these huge cranes, it's still a working shipyard, and you can see them over the city.

So it's a part of the city's skyline.

They're absolutely gigantic.

It took three years to build the Titanic, and it was completed on the 31st of March, 1912.

So you might recognise some of the dates on this timeline.

If we start at the beginning, we've got 1837, 1901, 1912, which is when the Titanic was built, 1914, 1918, and 1939.

Those are some key dates in history.

I wonder if you can identify what any of these dates represent.

So up first, we've got 1837 through to 1901.

You might recognise those dates as being the Victorian era, and this lasted for 64 years.

Then Queen Victoria died in 1901.

So that was the end of the Victorian era.

1912, so 11 years later was when the Titanic was built.

Now, let's look at the next set of dates.

1914 through to 1918.

I wonder whether you recognise those years as a significant world event.

Well done if you spotted that this is when World War I happened.

So World War I began just two years after the Titanic was built.

Then moving on to 1939 was when we had the start of World War II.

So it's quite helpful for us to think about which point in history the Titanic was built.

It was built in a hugely interesting time.

So the Victorian era had just finished.

Then we had the Titanic.

And just after the Titanic was built, we had World War I.

And then later on in the 1900s World War II.

The Titanic was built at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard, which city and country was this in? Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you remembered it was built in Belfast, in Northern Ireland.

Now, let's go back to our key research points.

So we now know what the Titanic was, where and when it was built.

So it was built in Belfast, in Northern Ireland in 1912.

Now, we're gonna learn about where it set sail from.

It set sail on the 10th of April, 1912.

Now, this is when the Titanic's maiden voyage began.

Maiden voyage.

Well done.

That's just quite a formal way of saying its first ever journey.

A voyage is a journey across the sea, and a maiden voyage is its first ever journey across the sea.

So the Titanic was built in 1912.

It's finished in March, 1912.

And then just a few weeks later on the 10th of April, it set off on its first big journey across the ocean.

It set sail from Southampton in England.

And you can see on my map, I've put a little circle where Southampton in England is.

That's where it departed from.

So remember, it had been built in Belfast, in Northern Ireland.

Then it was transported over to England where it was going to set off on its first proper journey.

So it departed from Southampton in England.

Then it went south down to Cherbourg in France.

It docked there, which means it had a short stop there.

So more passengers could get on the ship at Cherbourg in France.

Then it docked again in Cobh in Ireland.

Let's say that word together, Cobh.

Your turn.

Well done.

Docked again at Cove in Ireland to drop off and collect even more passengers before it set off on the final and the longest part of its journey, which was across the Atlantic Ocean.

Its final destination, which is the final place it was headed towards was New York City in the United States of America.

Put the Titanic's stops on its maiden voyage in order.

Pause the video while you do that.

Okay, well done if you spotted that firstly it departed or it set sail from Southampton in England.

It then docked at Cherbourg in France to pick up and drop off some passengers.

Then it docked again at Cobh in Ireland to drop off and pick up some more passengers.

And finally, its final destination, or it was headed towards New York City in the USA.

That was where it was going to end its maiden voyage.

So we now know what the Titanic was, where and when it was built, and where it set sail from.

Now, lastly, but perhaps most importantly, we're going to learn about what happened to the Titanic.

On its way to New York in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Titanic struck an iceberg.

So it had set sail from Southampton in England.

It had successfully docked at Cherbourg.

It had also successfully docked at Cobh in Ireland.

And it was on its way from Ireland to New York City.

But when it was travelling, or voyaging, or sailing across the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, it struck an iceberg.

And this is a picture of an iceberg, which is a huge body of ice, which happens when water is very, very cold.

This made a huge dent in the hull of the ship, which resulted in the hull's seams from buckling and water filling five of the ship's lower compartments, which caused the ship to sink.

So here is a picture of the Titanic, and this is the hull.

So it's just like the main body of the ship, the lower body of the ship.

So the ship struck this iceberg and the iceberg caused a huge big dent in the hull.

And it caused such a big dent that it actually broke through some of the metal sheets and seams along the bottom of the hull, which let water in.

The really devastating fact about this was that the Titanic would've been able to stay afloat if only four of its lower compartments had been filled with water.

However, five of the compartments filled and the Titanic was not able to stay afloat, which means on the waters surface with five of its compartments filled with water.

It was too heavy with that amount of water in it, and it dragged the ship down.

In the early hours of the morning on the 14th of April in 1912, the Titanic sank.

Of the 2,240 passengers and crew on board, over 1,500 of them died when the ship sank.

So 2,240, that is so many people.

And of that 2,240, over 1,500 of them died.

So a very huge majority of people did not survive the Titanic sinking.

This event is regarded as one of the worst peace-time maritime tragedies in history.

So remember at that point in 1912, there was no war happening at that time.

So that's how we describe it as a peacetime.

There was no war happening and this number of deaths caused by this accident out at sea, we call a maritime event, or a maritime accident if something's happened at sea.

Lots of people regard this as the worst tragedy of non-war times in history.

So now that we have finished learning about what happened to the Titanic, we now know what it was, where and when it was built, where it set sail from, and what happened to the Titanic.

Now, it's time for you to conduct your final task.

You're going to use the pictures in front of you to help fill in the missing words in these sentences about the Titanic.

Let's read them through together.

The Titanic was built in, hmm, Northern Ireland at the hmm Shipyard.

On the hmm April 1912, it set sail from the hmm docks in Ireland, in England, sorry.

On its maiden voyage it docked at hmm, France and Cobh, Ireland before making its way across the hmm Ocean towards New York City, USA.

However, during the final stage of its journey, the ship struck an hmm, which caused damage to the hmm.

This led to hmm of the ship's compartments filling with water and the ship sank on the 14th of April, 1912.

Pause the video now and use the pictures on the screen to help you fill in the missing words.

Well done, everyone.

Let's read these through together.

Now, there were a lot of words in here, so well done to you if you managed to get them all.

But if you didn't, don't worry about it 'cause we're gonna go through them together.

The Titanic was built in Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard.

On the 10th of April, 1912, it set sail from the Southampton docks in England.

On its maiden voyage, it docked at Cherbourg, France and Cobh, Ireland before making its way across the Atlantic Ocean towards New York City, USA.

However, during the final stage of its journey, the ship struck an iceberg, which caused damage to the hull.

This led to five of the ship's compartments filling with water and the ship sank on the 14th of April, 1912.

Well done, everyone.

Now, the story of the Titanic is a truly, truly sad story.

So thank you so much for bearing with us during our discussions of this sad topic.

And if you are feeling really upset about the Titanic and what happened to it, definitely make sure that you have conversations at home with any other adults who might be able to help you learn a little bit more about this subject or just to have somebody to talk to about how you're feeling.

Well done, everybody.

We have now finished our lesson where we were researching the Titanic in preparation for writing a journalistic report.

Research involves looking at different sources of information to develop our understanding of a topic.

All journalists should conduct research in preparation for writing so that their reports are accurate and factual.

Facts can be kept general when conducting initial research.

Research can be conducted using primary and secondary sources.

Well done again, everyone.

As I just said, I am so impressed with your learning today and your mature attitude to this really tricky topic.

Well done you.

And I'm looking forward to seeing you again soon.