History Mystery - The Tollund Man

This lesson contains:

• A starter to consider what assumptions we can make about a fictional person based on the criteria on the board. This gets students into the thinking of using evidence to make guesses.
• An image of the Tollund Man and gets students discussing what may have happened to him.
• Background about the story of the Tollund Man, followed by a YouTube video on bog bodies and the Tollund Man himself to give the background.
• A task for students to use the information booklet provided to note down the facts. This helps them seperate theory from fact. Once they have what they know as fact, they can then use the sources to add a bit of flavour to their notes. Students are then asked to consider their theory of what happened from an option of murder, religious sacrifice and execution.
• The students use the facts and the source evidence to come up with a theory about what happened and defend it with historical reasoning. This is good fun and they also get to use historical skills and PEE etc.

Attachments:

• 1 x Powerpoint Presentation
• 1 x Publisher File