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Teachers
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The
Ice Man
The Iceman still partially
buried in the glacier.
Newsflash
Mountain Hikers
find dead body in Alps!
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The Daily
News
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Saturday 21st
September 1991
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The body is excavated by the
police.
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Last Thursday afternoon
two tourists found a body on the Alpine Austrian/Italian
border. The couple had been exploring a glacier when they
found the body partially emerged from the ice. The body was
reported to the police, who excavated the body and handed it
to a world famous archaeologist. The Dr's report is due in
one week's time.
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You are the world famous
archaeologist
called in to date the
body.
Your task is to use the
connections below
to complete your field
report.
There is no right
answer.
It is up to you which experts you
choose to believe.
You have one week to complete your
report
and hand it to the
authorities.
How
was the body discovered?
http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c5/c552/Forschung/Iceman/iceman-en.html
What
was found with the body?
http://www.cruithni.org.uk/feature/iceman.html
It
is now Tuesday.
The body has been transported to
your laboratory by helicopter.
What do you want to do,
Professor?
Dr, what should we do with the
body?
Wednesday
Congratulations, the body has not
decomposed overnight!
Dr, we found an axe with the
body.
I'm finished here,
take me to Thursday!
Thursday
Doctor, it might be interesting to
see what was the Ice-man's last meal.
I'm finished! Let's
go to Friday!
Oh
yes, its Friday!
Dr, we should send some pieces of
the Iceman away for carbon-14 dating.
Okay, take
me to Saturday!
It's
Saturday. Did you think archaeologists took the weekends off?
HA!
Why don't we take a look at his
clothes?
Take me to
Sunday!
Sunday.
Why don't we take a look at the
stuff the Iceman was carrying?
Take me to
Monday!
It's Monday. Your
last day on the job!
The Press want to know how the
Iceman died.
By golly, I think I've
finished!
Okay, now finish up your report
and hand it to your boss. It's been a pleasure working with you,
Dr.
Teachers
Outcomes
Year 11 Preliminary Ancient
History
This web-site is designed as a
choose-your-own adventure style learning activity.
It suggested that teachers use
this exercise to link part a) investigating the past: history,
archaeology and science with b) case studies.
Although I gave students a week to
complete the project, this does not necessary mean a week's worth of
classtime. I would suggest only allocating one period of classwork to
this exercise. The students should complete their work in their spare
time.
The students will come up with
completely different interpretations of the archaeological and
scientific evidence. That is the purpose of this exercise - to
highlight that evidence may be interpreted in many different ways,
even within the culturally similar context of the classroom. A
classroom discussion should be held after the completion of the
exercise to explore this concept fully.
The Outcomes from the Stage 6 Anc.
His. Syllabus that may be achieved in part through this exercise
are:
P3.1 uses key historical terms and
concepts appropriately to answer historical questions
P4.1 identifies different types of
evidence of the ancient past and explains the implications of the
problems of evidence for reconstructing the past
P 4.2 identifies different
interpretations of the past
P 4.3 makes deductions from a
variety of sources and assesses their usefulness
P 5.1 selects and organises
relevant historical and archaeological information from a variety of
sources and evaluates the information and sources for their
usefulness, validity and bias.
P 5.2 plans a historical
investigation, analyses and synthesises historical and archaeological
information from a variety of perspectives and sources and presents
the findings of the investigation.
Link to Ancient History Stage 6
Syllbus
http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus99/ancienthistory_syl.pdf