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Beginnings


Wooden shipbuilding

New educational content for PortCities Southampton 

Further educational content for PortCities Southampton 

1)     Life of a Port                          (additional content)

·       Not started Preparing a liner for the journey - a narrative looking at the service industries supplying a passenger ship, like florists, laundries, provisions, moving passengers and their luggage  

 

2)     On the Line                             (additional content)

·       üOnline Cargoes and trade routes using Southampton as an example

·       üOnline Fact files on Southampton shipping lines: Cunard, White Star (link to  PortCities Liverpool), P&O, Union-Castle

·       Work underway The Blue Riband - transatlantic liners and speed 

 

3)     Sea People                                      (additional content)

·       Not started Biography on captains and other ship crew, supported with Oral History sound clips

·       Not started A day in the life of a fictional ship to show different workers' roles

·       Work underway Women at sea

 

4)     Southampton                           (new theme)

This new theme will consider Southampton's development as a port city and its people

·       Work underway Flying Boats in Southampton 

·       Work underway Shipbuilding in Southampton 

·       Work underway Americans in Southampton (especially leading to D-Day)

·       üOnline Port timelines

·       Not started Blitz in Southampton: bombing the city in World War Two 

 

5)     Learning zone                 (new theme)

Here we will place (or link) all the educational resources created for the other six themes:

·       üOnline Glossary of maritime terms

·       üOnline Timelines

·       Not started Biographies www.bbc.co.uk 

·       üOnline Fact files on shippinglines 

·       üOnline Maps of Southampton and its trade routes

·       üOnline Games, including word search and shuffle-picture

[36117] 'Aquitania' as a hospital ship

magnify Aquitania, from Cunard line





·       Not started Learning journeys to help navigate the website: guides written for kids, ship researchers, genealogists, local historians, and general browsers 

·       üOnline Profiles of the project partners' physical collections

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