The Titanic & Icebergs

After reading about icebergs while studying Antarctica, I thought we should read about the Titanic. Here are the books we have read or are reading:

• "Tonight on the Titanic" by Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House book) - fiction
• "Titanic" by the Osbornes, a Research Guide companion - non-fiction (this book has a good explanation of icebergs)
• "The Titanic: Lost... and Found" by Donnelly
• "The Heroine of the Titanic: A Tale Both True and Otherwise of the Life of Molly Brown" by Blos (added May 2006) - good book for kids about the "Unsinkable Molly Brown"
• "The Sinking of the Titanic" by Matt Doeden - a cartoon-style book - we read in July 2006 - really enjoyed it

We also made an iceberg and put it in the pool to demonstrate how you can only see a small portion of an iceberg above water. We used a small toy boat as the Titanic and had it run into the iceberg.