Hello!
How are you? Today let's look at mysteries (不思議 、神秘) in the world!
Look at the picture above. It's the Grave Creek Mound in West Virginia, in the U.S. It is one of many mounds (small hills) that were made by native American cultures that once lived across the east-central part of what is now the U.S.
They had a rich, advanced culture with cities and even systems of laws - and then over time, up to around when the Edo period began in Japan, their cities disappeared and the cultures died out.
How were the people who built these mounds able to make them? What was the reason for these mounds? Were they for religious ceremonies, or…could they have been made to connect themselves to aliens? Why did their cultures die out?
Activity
Take a look at these other pictures of mysteries around the world. What do you think are the reasons for these mysteries? Who - or what - could have made them happen? Talk about these with a partner or a group!
They had a rich, advanced culture with cities and even systems of laws - and then over time, up to around when the Edo period began in Japan, their cities disappeared and the cultures died out.
How were the people who built these mounds able to make them? What was the reason for these mounds? Were they for religious ceremonies, or…could they have been made to connect themselves to aliens? Why did their cultures die out?
Activity
Take a look at these other pictures of mysteries around the world. What do you think are the reasons for these mysteries? Who - or what - could have made them happen? Talk about these with a partner or a group!
Nazca lines (Peru)
The Bermuda Triangle (Atlantic Ocean)
Easter Island (Pacific Ocean)
Stonehenge (England)
Easter Island (Pacific Ocean)
Stonehenge (England)
What do you think about these famous places and mysteries?
Homework
Choose one of the places above and find out a bit more about it on the Internet. Make notes on it and next week, bring it to class and share what you found out.
Take care! See you next time!
Homework
Choose one of the places above and find out a bit more about it on the Internet. Make notes on it and next week, bring it to class and share what you found out.
Take care! See you next time!
Images: Top - By Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant) - Own work (self-made photograph), CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1725430/Nazca lines - http://www.enkivillage.com/unsolved-mysteries-of-the-world.html/Bermuda Triangle - By Bermudan_kolmio.jpg: Alphaiosderivative work: -Majestic- (talk) - Bermudan_kolmio.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6916509/Easter Island - By Aurbina - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133096/Stonehenge - http://www.history.com/topics/british-history/stonehenge/All images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. All rights reserved.
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