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Ship-to-ship communication in the past

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Oceans and Seas Boats and Ships

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Objectives

History

  • Learn about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally.
  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change.
  • Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.

English

  • Leave spaces between words.
  • Punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark.
  • Write for different purposes.

Lesson Planning

Learn about the history of ship-to-ship communication and then write, code and decode ship telegrams.

Teaching Outcomes
 To explore ship-to-ship communication past and present and learn the story of Titanic and her maiden voyage.
To compose and decipher telegraph messages using Morse code and to create an exhibition poster about ship communication ‘then and now’.

Children will:

  • Look at ship-to-ship communication past and present.
  • Explore the Marconi telegraph system, writing, coding and decoding ship telegrams.
  • Learn the story of Titanic and its voyage.
  • Create a poster comparing sea communications in 1915 and 2015.

Provided Resources

  • Titanic collision map
  • Marconi wireless sets
  • Morse code key
  • Example Marconigram form
  • Blank Marconigram form
  • Morse code messages
  • Morse code message solutions
  • Sea communication statements

You Will Need

  • Atlases
  • Poster paper

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