Unsolved Mysteries Research PROJECT aka . . . your last and final Embedded Assessment for the ...

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Unsolved Mysteries
Research PROJECT
aka . . . your last and
final Embedded
Assessment for the
year!!!
Objective Product
Objective: Product:
Pick one unsolved mystery to After researching, and
research and build a cold-case building your cold-case file on
around. Choose to work alone your topic, you will create 2
or with one partner. No more final products that will display
than two in a group. your research and findings to
your class.
WELCOME TO THE UNSOLVED MYSTERIES SOCIETY
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson often drew different conclusions from the same
clues, the same pieces of information. They then looked for additional evidence to
prove that something was true.
The process of solving a mystery and the process of writing a research paper have
several things in common. Both require gathering and studying clues, evidence, and
information; weeding out "red herrings" or irrelevant information; organizing
thoughts; and presenting accurate theories and conclusions.
For this Research Project Embedded Assessment, you will have 2 parts:
1. A typed and printed 1-2 page essay which you will read to the class
2. A creative product to display your evidence and findings to your class
WHERE TO BEGIN
Here's a quick overview to begin your research process:
● Choose to work alone or with one partner
● Explore the many topics of unsolved mysteries
(historical, scientific, supernatural, baffling medical
mysteries, or just down right unexplainable). Find
one that you feel the most compelled to research
and learn more about.
● Think about- What makes it a good unsolved
mystery anyway? Has it been close to being solved?
Are there good theories out there that support it?
With the help of technological advances and modern
technology for the future, could further investigation
be done to solve this mystery in time? Can some
theories be disproved? How/why....explain? How
would solving this mystery benefit the world, people,
those involved or closely involved, the future, etc?
Now, LET’S EXAMINE “Cracking History’s Cold Cases:
Unsolved Mysteries Research Project” HANDOUT
Now let’s examine some
famous unsolved mysteries
and begin the next step.
Unsolved Mysteries that would make great Research Topics
BRAINSTORM IDEAS:
★ Medical Mystery- allergic to sunlight
★ The Ghost Ship, the Mary Celeste
★ The Bermuda Triangle
★ The Loch Ness Monster
★ Roswell, New Mexico
★ Stonehenge
★ Area 51
★ Lost Colony of Roanoke
★ The Curse of King Tut
★ The Legend of King Arthur and the Round Table- Was he a real king or just a
legend?
★ Medical Mystery- Foreign Accent Syndrome: traumatic events in the brain can have other
unusual effects as well- beginning to speak with a different accent
★ Vampires, Zombies, Chupacabra, Abominable Snowman “Yeti”, Bigfoot
“Sasquatch”- Mythical Creatures born from legend and cultures- Did they ever really
exist?
★ Builders of the Great Pyramids
★ Paranormal sightings
★ Life on other planets- Are aliens real?
★ Mermaids- Real or hoax?
★ Black Holes
★ Is there a Missing Link? The story of human evolution is not complete. In addition to hoaxes such
as “Piltdown Man” and extraordinary finds such as “Lucy,” many puzzles remain. What, in the end, do we
mean by a “missing link”?
★ Preserved people- expired bodies/mummies that never seem to age or are found
in perfect condition after centuries, millenia or more. Are these preservations dependent
on environment or something else that cannot be explained (bodies found in ice, bog bodies “preserved
in peat”, bodies found in high altitudes, Egyptian mummies, etc.)
★ Psychic Abilities (ESP)
★ The Shroud of Turin- Is it a hoax or an image of Jesus?
★ The WOW signal: A Message from Space?- In 1977, the sound of extraterrestrials was heard
by human ears for the first time. Is this evidence of aliens in space?
★ How did the Universe begin? The Big Bang has been the accepted theory for decades but does it
explain everything? How did life on Earth get started?
★ Easter Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
★ The Legend of Billy the Kid
★ Crop Circles
★ The Lost City of Atlantis
★ The Wolf Girls raised in the wild, by wolves their whole life
★ Million Year Old Screw- Russian researchers believe the unusual object is 300 million years old,
leading some people to claim that it may be proof of a highly advanced lost human civilisation, or even
the work of aliens.
★ The Oak Island Money Pit- (found in 1795) Is it a natural sinkhole, a treasure hunters paradise or
one of history’s best hoaxes?
★ Alien Abduction
★ Salem Witch trials
★ Life-after-Death Experiences/Out-of-Body Experiences
★ End of the World predictions
★ Time Travel/Time Slips/Other Dimensions
★ Spontaneous Human Combustion
★ Abraham Lincoln- Was his murder really done by John Wilkes Booth?
★ Illuminati- Does this secret organization really exist?