The Titanic - Year 8 scheme of learning

A complete unit designed for Year 8 on the sinking of The Titanic.

This unit is fully resourced for each lesson, including clearly chunked activities and assessment points at the end of each unit based around a central question.

The following lessons are included (each roughly 1hr to deliver):

1. What was like like in Edwardian Britain?
2. Why did Britain build the Titanic?
3. Who was on board the Titanic?
4. What was it like to be on board the Titanic?
5. The story of Joseph Laroche and other minorities on board the Titanic
6. How did the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic sink?
7. What were the consequences of the Titanic disaster?
8. How reliable is the 1997 Titanic film?

All units focus on the core skills of history (chronology, causation, change and continuity, historiography, source-analysis and judgement making), and are part of an overall theme for the year (For Year 7 this is ‘The Changing Nature of Power’, for Year 8 it is ‘Progress vs Regress’ and for Year 9 it is ‘Conflict’).

Each unit is also designed to focus on inclusive, social, history where possible. This aims to include the experiences of black people, disabled, LGBT and other minority groups throughout history. This innovative approach is in line with Ofsted’s framework regarding inclusivity in the curriculum and avoids the issue of tokenism within history.

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