QR Challenge: History Mystery!

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Roughly how old was the victim when he died?	1
2. How long had the body been there when it was discovered?	2
3. What was the weather like when he died?	3
4. Who discovered the body, and in what year?	4
5. Which two countries claimed the body?	5
6. What is the name of the mountain range where the body was found?	6
7. What is a glacier?	7
8. What was found inside his chest that indicated he had been murdered?	8
9. What was his nickname and how did he get it?	9
10. Where is the body now?	10
11. What evidence was found on the victim’s body that indicated close contact with four other people close to the time he died?	11
12. Archaeologists found a small tear on his coat. How do they think it got there?	12
13. Give 2 possible causes of death based on the evidence in your pack.	13
14. Name four items of equipment that were found with the victim.	14
15. Roughly how tall was the victim?	15
16. How many serious illnesses had he had in the months before his death? How do scientists know this?	16
17. What was his coat made from?	17
18. One of the hands on the body had a deep, unhealed wound. How do investigators think he got this?	18
19. The body was found very high up in the mountain. How high exactly?	19
20. Why was the victim wearing three layers of clothing?	20
21. How do researchers know he had eaten a large meal shortly before he died?	21
22. A bow was found with the body. What was it covered in?	22
23. What was the body half covered in when it was found?	23
24. What colour eyes did the victim have?	24
25. Give one theory about the purpose of the tattoos found on the body.	25

 

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