QR Challenge: Iceman 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. In 1991, a pair of hikers in the Otztal Alps along the Austrian-Italian border discovered a man's body
2. The body was located extremely high up in the mountains at 10,500 ft
3. When the body was discovered, it was half-buried in the ice
4. Many mountaineers die in this area from falls and other accidents
5. The body had no hair, fingernails, or skin
6. Next to the body were bits of leather, string, and rolled-up birch bark
7. The body was missing its twelfth pair of ribs
8. Strangely the body had not been touched by predators like wolves or eagles
9. The body was covered with strange tattoos in the form of groups of lines and crosses
10. High levels of arsenic- a poisonous substance- were found in the hair from the body
11. The body had a number of fractured ribs at the time of death
12. The body was situated in a gully between two large walls of rock
13. Excavations uncovered a broken longbow and a bearskin cap
14. Of the two fingernails found, both showed he had suffered stressful illnesses leading up to his death
15. Analysis of Otzi's intestinal contents showed two meals, one of which was consumed about 2 hours before his death
16. In 2001, x-rays and a CT scan revealed the Otzi had an arrowhead lodged in his left shoulder when he died
17. Although the arrow remained in his back, the shaft was no where to be found
18. An ax was found with the body which appeared to be made of iron

 

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