This month marks the 98th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.  This Thursday the new Titanic Museum opens in Pigeon Forge.    Here are some links for a unit study on Titanic.   **Check back in the upcoming days for more links.**

Coloring Sheets

• The Titanic Coloring Book – from Dover Publishing
• Sinking the Titanic
• Kids n Fun - Lots of nice coloring sheets.
• Hub Pages – 30 free coloring sheets
• Sinking of Titanic

Lapbook

• Lapbook Masters - Lapbook available at Curr Click for $2.00

Books

You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on the Titanic!

• • Literature Unit

Magic Tree House: Tonight on the Titanic by Mary Pope Osborne

• • Activities from Teachers @Random
  • More activities from Random House
    
  • Mountain City Elementary - Vocabulary and Questions for each chapter
  • Lesson Plans -Teaching Units, Teacher’s Guides, Novel Unit Plans, Study Guides, and more
  • Activity Sheets
  • More activity sheets from Random House

Finding the Titanic by Robert Ballard

• • Lesson Plans -Teaching Units, Teacher’s Guides, Novel Unit Plans, Study Guides, and more

Titanic Crossing by Barbara Williams

• • Lesson Plans -Teaching Units, Teacher’s Guides, Novel Unit Plans, Study Guides, and more

SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting

• • Lesson Plans -Teaching Units, Teacher’s Guides, Novel Unit Plans, Study Guides, and more

Dear America: Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson White

• • Lesson Plans – Teaching Units, Teacher’s Guides, Novel Unit Plans, Study Guides, and more

Movies & TV

• PBS: Secrets of the Dead – Read about the work done to identify those people who didn’t survive the Titanic accident. Click on “Interactive Titanic Forensics” to use clues to determine the identities of bodies.
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

The People

List of all people on ship- Encyclopedia Titaninca

“Unsinkable” Molly Brown

• • “Unsinkable”  Molly Brown – Wikipedia
  • Mrs. Margaret “Molly” Brown – Encyclopedia Titanica

Misc

• 1912 Titanic Mystery PC Game – free download
• Kidsconnet – Titanic Facts
• Encyclopedia Britannica -
• Encyclopedia Titanica – Don’t think this needs an explanation.
• Titanic for kids by kids – a site designed by 10 year old Titanic expert, Gabe Cassutto.
• H.M.S. – Wikipedia
• RMS – Wikipedia
  
• RMS Titanic – Wikipedia
  
• National Geographic Explorer - More facts & pictures for kids
• White Star Line – Wikipedia
• Titanic and other White Star Line Ships -  An In-depth Examination of the Ships of the Legendary White Star Line
• Morse Code Translator
• Learn Morse Code
• Transcript of the distress call - This is the transcript of the wireless messages sent by the Titanic when it hit the iceberg near Newfoundland.
• Robert Ballard: Undersea Explorer – Students can read about the underwater explorer who discovered the Titanic in 1985.
• Titanic Paint & Color Reference – I thought this was cool.  Could use for art.
• Cruise History – The Last survivor of “unsinkable” Titanic dies at 97.
• the 97th anniversary of the loss of RMS Titanic.
• Passenger List & Biographies
• National Geographic – Story of 12 year old Ruth Becker, who survived the Titanic
• Measuring Worth – Use  this website to find out how much these tickets for Titanic would cost today.

1st Class Titanic Berth 1912 – $150

2nd Class Titanic Ticket 1912 – $60

3rd Class Titanic Ticket 1912 – $35

History

• Titanic Facts –
• Titanic Historical Society
• History on the Net - Timeline, articles, worksheets & more.
• History.com – Articles & videos about Titanic
• History Timeline
• Eco-Photo Explorers – “The Ship of Dreams”
  
• Eyewitness to History – Elizabeth Shutes’, a 40 year old governess, first hand account of her experience on Titanic
• RMS Liners – Ocean Liner History

Artifacts

• Museum of Science and Industry: Titanic Artifacts – See several items found at the Titanic wreckage. Includes pieces of the ship and personal items of the passengers. Click the arrows to navigate between pages.

Newspaper Articles

• The Bulletin, San Fransisco – April 19, 1912- Here are San Francisco newspaper articles about the Titanic and its passengers. Includes a personal account from Dr. Washington Dodge who survived the accident.
• Baltimore American – Prominent Persons Who Were On Titanic
• Balitmore American – Front Page Article “Titanic sinks with 1200 Men. 866 Women and Children Saved.
• Titanic Passenger List
• Jacksonville Observer – Article from New York Harold and tombstone of  Dr. Robert James Bateman
• New York Times
• Times Dispatch – Richmond, VA
  

Pictures

• Picture of Titanic Iceberg
• National Geographic
• RMS Titanic print
• FanPop – misc. photos

St. Patrick: The World’s Greatest Missionary

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. I have put together a Holiday Helper just right for the busy parent. There is no preparation (except for easy, yummy soda bread), just time together to enjoy. There is a biography of Patrick that is rich and engaging, rare illustrations for study and learning, a recipe for real Irish soda bread and an essay you and your children won’t want to miss, entitled, “The Real St. Patrick”.

We highly recommend this version for the whole family, including teens. The narration is outstanding and one of the most enjoyably listened to books that we’ve ever produced.

In addition to this extra special free offer for our listeners, we are also offering ten of our most popular classic audiobooks for the super-low price of only $2.98 each, only until the end of this month (March 31st)!

This free download is available in MP3 & M4B formats; learn more here. You can also purchase a print version of The Pilgrim’s Progress on Amazon!

Click here to download this free audiobook! Be sure to use coupon code PROG103!   Free registration for Christian Audio is required.

March 16 – Added St. Patrick’s Breastplate recording.

Added Irish Language Links

March 17 – Added Irish Music & Dancing links.

Here is a list of resources for studying Saint Patrick’s Day.  Check back often because I will be adding more links in the next few days, as well as copywork pages.

Activities & Games

• Apples for the Teacher
• Billy Bear for Kids
• Christian Preschool Printables
• DLTK
• Ed Helper – Hidden pictures, Sudoku, thinking puzzles, analogies, activity puzzles, reading comprehension, writing activities, math sheets, maps, dot -to -dots and much more.
  
• Enchanted Learning
• Kaboose
  
• Shamrock File Folder Game
• Teaching Heart
• Teacher’s Corner

Coloring Pages

• Apples for Teacher – 18 coloring pages including shamrocks,
• Coloring Book Fun -
• Jan Brett – HedgeHog Leprechaun
• The Kids Page
• Squido – Coloring pages
  

History of St. Patrick & His Special Day

• History.com
• The Holiday Spot
• Religion Facts

Language

• Learn Irish Language & Culture – free online Irish resources,  award-winning vocabulary, video immersion, and reference software. If you are learning how to speak Irish at a basic, intermediate or advanced level, we have resources for you.   Check out the Irish Word of the Day - Learn and listen to a new Irish word every day.  Free Irish software downloads - Learn hundreds of words and phrases.  Irish survival phrases - Read and listen to useful Irish phrases for pronunciation.
• Irish Language, Alphabet and Pronunciation
• Irish Sayings -  Listen to Irish sayings in three different dialects.  The Days of the Week,  the Seasons, &  Irish Blessings.  There are some other pages to explore, but use caution, some of the sayings are inappropriate for children.

Free Lapbooks

• Homeshool Helper
• Homeschool Share
• Squido

Lesson Plans & Unit Studies

• Easy Fun School
• Knowledge Quest
  
• Lesson Plans Page – Includes activities for Language Arts, Math, Art, Science and Social Studies
• Patrick Patron Saint of Ireland – A literature study based on the book by Tommy DePaola
• Pratt’s Educational Resources – tons of links for St. Patrick’s Day and Irish Theme studies.
• Squid0 - Language Art & Math studies

Music & Dance

• Celtic Women singing Danny Boy
• History of Irish Dance
  
• How to Dance Irish – from WikiHow
• Irish Flute Music
• Irish Washerwoman
• Michael Flatley – Lord of the Dance Finale
  
• Riverdance – the official website of Riverdance
• Riverdance - on Widipedia
• Riverdance 2002 – video clip
• The Three Irish Tenors – Dublin In The Rare Old Times
• Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears – The Irish Tenors

Recipes

• Irish Recipes
• Irish Recipes and Baking
  

Misc.

• Blank map of Ireland
• Family Fun – Activities, games, printouts, recipes and more
• Irish Culture & Customs – more than 700 pages that range from Irish poetry, superstitions , Kids Stories and recipes to specific Irish calendar celebrations such as St. Patrick’s Day , Beltane, SamhainFeast of St. Brigid and the . Whether it’s an Irish symbol such as the shillelagh, the Shamrock or an Irish craft like Aran Isle knitting, you’ll discover a wide range of topics in the index.
• Saint Patrick: The Greatest Missionary of All Time – A free ebook from Living Books Curriculum
• Saint Aiden’s Homeschool – free unit study resources for St. Patrick, Ireland and Irish culture.
  
  • St Patrick’s day main page
  • traditional poems, songs, lyrics – midi- sequence
  • Irish literature & books
  • full ebooks Celtic tales of myth & fantasy
  • St Patrick’s day lesson plans & discussion

• St. Patrick’s Breastplate – Librovox recording of the beautiful prayer of St. Patrick.
• Shamrocks and Shillelaghs – a small collection of writings about Irish beliefs and customs. This free eBook  includes background information on St. Patrick, shamrocks, shillelaghs, the Blarney Stone, familiar Irish songs, as well as pages of materials that can be used in your studies. Take a trivia quiz and see how you fare.

Master Writer – Quotation Copybooks – Authors – Westvon Publishing | CurrClick.

If you want your children to have beautiful handwriting, then they need to practice! However, so many handwriting copybooks offer boring, worn-out sayings that do not interest most children today! How about combining your children’s interests and studies into their handwriting drills to make them fun and exciting? Master Writer Copybooks are just the answer!

Like our Happy Scribe Copybooks, these books are interesting and exciting. For an older child, these books reflect the great thoughts of famous and important people like Presidents, Authors, Saints, Artists, Philosophers and more. Great to work into your historical studies and use as conversation starters… these are some of mankind’s greatest thinkers and now you’ll be able to help tuck away these profound quotations into the hearts and minds of your own children through handwriting practice.

Each copybook has twenty sayings, presented in three different common handwriting fonts: Classic Block Printing, D’Nealian Italic and Cursive. We have based these exercises on twenty day blocks, representing four weeks of five days, for one month of exercises. There are basic alphabets and number pages for extra drill pages as well as a blank page to print for your own exercises, if you so please.

Each quotation is printed once dark, and room for practice. On the second page, it’s printed dotted and grayed with room to practice. It’s a proven fact, that when presented with several blank lines to practice on, student’s work tends to degrade quickly. However, when there is another faint reminder quote line, they will see much more consistent results in the quality of their handwriting.

This copybook is entitled Authors

It contains quotations from some of the most famous authors!

Each book is over 130 pages long, with 3 different type faces, practice alphabet pages and blank pages. too!

Print the sheets you need NOW, for as many children as you have. Keep everyone on the same sayings yet at different levels of handwriting ability. You can even combine a sort of unit study to the books… discuss the quotation with your children! !

The theme for this week’s challenge at

i heart faces is “Jump For Joy!.”

This is a photo I took of my daughter on her 11th birthday.

Be sure to check out more photos of “Jump For Joy!” here.

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May this song minister to you…

Unredeemed by Selah

The cruelest world
The coldest heart
The deepest wound
The endless dark
The lonely ache
The burning tears
The bitter nights
The wasted years

Life breaks and falls apart
But we know these are
Places where grace is soon to be so amazing
It may be unfulfilled
It may be unrestored
But when anything that’s shattered is laid before the Lord
Just watch and see
It will not be unredeemed

For every choice that led to shame
And all the love that never came
For every vow that someone broke
And every lie that gave up hope
We live in the shadow of the fall
But the cross says these are all
Places where grace is soon to be so amazing
It may be unfulfilled
It may be unrestored
But when anything that’s shattered is laid before the Lord
Just watch and see
It will not be unredeemed

Places where grace is soon to be so amazing
It may be unfulfilled
It may be unrestored
But you never know the miracle the Father has in store
Just watch and see
It will not be
Just watch and see
It will not be unredeemed