Who Sank the Boat?

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Show children the cover of Who Sank the Boat? Point to the question mark and tell children that the mark means the words are asking a question. Read the title aloud. Then ask, Draw the students’ attention to the pattern created throughout the book once the characters and setting have been established. Pamela Allen asks the same questions in the same format each time. Discuss how this contributes to the enjoyment of the reader. Have students create a Venn diagram of the things that are the same and the things that are different in the beginning picture compared to the ending picture. In the aftermath of the sinking, public inquiries were set up in Britain and the United States. The US inquiry began on 19 April under the chairmanship of Senator William Alden Smith, [227] and the British inquiry commenced in London under Lord Mersey on 2 May 1912. [228] They reached broadly similar conclusions: the regulations on the number of lifeboats that ships had to carry were out of date and inadequate; [229] Captain Smith had failed to take proper heed of ice warnings; [230] the lifeboats had not been properly filled or crewed; and the collision was the direct result of steaming into a danger area at too high a speed. [229] Both inquiries strongly criticised Captain Lord of Californian for failing to render assistance to Titanic. [231] Pause on the illustration of the pig getting in the boat. Ask, What do you think will happen if the pig tilts the boat more?

Neither officer knew how many people could safely be carried in the boats as they were lowered and they both erred on the side of caution by not filling them. They could have been lowered quite safely with their full complement of 68people, especially with the highly favourable weather and sea conditions. [83] Had this been done, an additional 500people could have been saved; instead, hundreds of people, predominantly men, were left on board as lifeboats were launched with many seats vacant. [81] [97]Marshall, Logan (1912). Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co. OCLC 1328882. Testimony of Arthur Bright". Archived from the original on 4 October 2018 . Retrieved 6 October 2014. Never again would Hitler allow a major warship to sail without his permission. For most of the remainder of the war, the German Navy was reduced to a ‘fleet in being’; the brunt of the battle of the Atlantic would be carried by the U-boat.

First of all, as a parent and implementation teacher of STEM, this is a book that I recommend for every early childhood library; home or school. The illustrations are lovely and the story is comical, not to mention the scientific introductions of the concepts of sink or float. Mowbray, Jay Henry (1912). Sinking of the Titanic . Harrisburg, PA: The Minter Company. OCLC 9176732.

Treemap showing numbers of passengers and crew by class, and whether men, women or children, and whether saved or lost Bartlett, W.B. (2011). Titanic : 9 Hours to Hell, the Survivors' Story. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4456-0482-4. Hundreds were in a circle [in the third-class dining saloon] with a preacher in the middle, praying, crying, asking God and Mary to help them. They lay there and yelled, never lifting a hand to help themselves. They had lost their own will power and expected God to do all the work for them. [132] Launching of the last lifeboats Lifeboat No. 15 was nearly lowered onto lifeboat No. 13 (depicted by Charles Dixon).