I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
Yall. Hands down, this is the best book in the series! ... However, this was also the meeting where I forgot to take pictures...😞 So bear with me. This is going to be short and sweet.
SNACK
I always try to have a themed snack in book club and this month it was lemon cookies. If you recall, George's sister Phoebe carried lemon drops around in a tin can and when she ventured into the baggage hold, she had left a trail of lemon drop cookies behind her.
We had Nilla Lemon Wafer Cookies and Archway Frosty Lemon Cookies.
ACTIVITY
For our activity, we had a team-based trivia inspired relay race.
Objective: The objective of this race was to earn points for your team by correctly answering the trivia question. You earned points by racing to the chair with the highest point value. (See my professional design plan? ⇨)
Points: Each chair had a different point value which was written on a sign and taped to the wall.
Points: Each chair had a different point value which was written on a sign and taped to the wall.
Set Up: I had a list of 20 trivia questions and each team got an exact same set of 20 answer cards. The answer cards already had the correct answers on them. When I asked a trivia question, it was their job to sort through their cards, find the one with the correct answer and race to a chair.
If you answered the trivia question correctly, your team earned those chairs points. If your team answered the question incorrectly, your team lost those chair points.
Strategy: Teams that weren't confident their answer was correct would choose a chair with the lowest point value. That way, if it was wrong, their team might only lose 20 points compared to 50 points.
You can see the answer cards in the picture below. The different colors differentiate the different teams.
Questions and Answer Card PDFs are posted below!
Remember those activity sheets in school where you have to draw the line from the question to the correct answer on the opposite side of the page? This game is similar to that, only with more competition and excitement.
One thing I would have done differently would be to have lower point values. I used 20, 30, 40 & 50 which turned out to be a little tricky for some of our younger groups to solve when it came to adding and subtracting those points.
Teams kept track of their own points throughout the game.
HANDS ON
You can't have a Titanic book club without making an iceberg. Right?
This is one of the things I forgot to take a picture of, but to make my iceberg, I just filled a large bucket with water and stuck it inside the freezer for a few days. If you've made ice cubes, you don't need me to explain this though 😉
The group loved seeing who could hold their hands on the ice the longest.
ALL IN ALL
If you answered the trivia question correctly, your team earned those chairs points. If your team answered the question incorrectly, your team lost those chair points.
Strategy: Teams that weren't confident their answer was correct would choose a chair with the lowest point value. That way, if it was wrong, their team might only lose 20 points compared to 50 points.
You can see the answer cards in the picture below. The different colors differentiate the different teams.
Questions and Answer Card PDFs are posted below!
One thing I would have done differently would be to have lower point values. I used 20, 30, 40 & 50 which turned out to be a little tricky for some of our younger groups to solve when it came to adding and subtracting those points.
Teams kept track of their own points throughout the game.
HANDS ON
You can't have a Titanic book club without making an iceberg. Right?
This is one of the things I forgot to take a picture of, but to make my iceberg, I just filled a large bucket with water and stuck it inside the freezer for a few days. If you've made ice cubes, you don't need me to explain this though 😉
The group loved seeing who could hold their hands on the ice the longest.
ALL IN ALL
This was probably one of our best discussions since I Survived the Joplin Tornado. Everything about this book, our discussion, the game, all of it was engaging.
CLICK HERE for Titanic Relay Questions
CLICK HERE for Titanic Relay Answer Cards
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