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Ötzi the Iceman
What can one body tell us about life 5,000 years ago?
In 1991 hikers found a body in an Alpine glacier. It was more than 5,300 years old. Students use four evidence cards to practice observation, inference and a claim-evidence-reasoning paragraph.
Grade 6Thinking Like a HistorianGoogle Slides1 class periodFree
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- Mini-DBQ packet: hook, four evidence cards with easier versions, Observation → Inference → Question chart, and a C.E.R. paragraph page
- Checklist rubric and answer key
The documents
- Document A: The discovery in the Alps (1991)
- Document B: His body: tattoos, health and last meal
- Document C: His tools and clothing
- Document D: How he died
Facts from the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, with sources listed.
Good to know
- Class time
- 1 class period
- Format
- Editable Google Slides
- Answer key
- Included
Standards: KAS Grade 6: 6.I.UE.2, 6.I.UE.3, 6.I.CC.5