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QUANDARY ANOMALY MYSTERY UNEXPLAINED ? WHAT IS AN ENIGMA ??? It is a mystery… something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained. ATLANTIS: CLICK DID IT REALLY EXIST? WHERE WAS IT LOCATED? WHAT HAPPENED TO IT? click AMELIA EARHART DID SHE DIE AT SEA BEFORE REACHING TINY HOWLAND ISLAND? WAS SHE TAKEN PRISONER BY THE JAPANESE? CLICK HAVE HER BONES BEEN FOUND? THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE WHERE IS IT? WHAT NATURAL FORCES COULD EXPLAIN THE MYSTERIOUS OCCURENCES? ARE THERE ANY WITNESSES? CLICK click BIG FOOT IS THE EVIDENCE OF ITS EXISTENCE RELIABLE? HOW COULD SUCH A LARGE CREATURE STAY ALMOST COMPLETELY HIDDEN FOR SO LONG? click CLICK EASTER ISLAND WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE GIANT STATUES? WHO ERECTED THEM? HOW WERE THEY TRANSPORTED? CLICK THE MARFA LIGHTS WHAT CAUSES THEM? IS THERE A PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION? CLICK HOW COULD THEY MOVE SUCH HUGE STONES? WHY WAS IT CONSTRUCTED? WHY WAS IT DESERTED? CLICK HOW WERE THEY SO PRECISELY MADE WITHOUT SOME TYPE OF FLYING APPARATUS? WHAT WERE THEY USED FOR? FOR WHOM WERE THEY MADE? CLICK IS NESSIE JUST A HOAX MEANT TO ATTRACT TOURISTS? CLICK IS NESSIE A CREATURE FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES? click WHO BUILT IT? WHAT WAS ITS PURPOSE? HOW DID ANCIENT MAN MOVE SUCH LARGE STONES? CLICK click THE MYSTERY OF THE COLONY AT ROANOKE ISLAND WHAT HAPPENED TO 100 SETTLERS OF ROANOKE ISLAND? WERE THEY MASSACRED BY THE NATIVE AMERICANS? DID THEY JOIN A NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE? CLICK 1. CHOOSE YOUR ENIGMA…WHAT INTERESTS YOU? MACHU PICCHU? THE LOCH NESS MONSTER? STONEHENGE? 2. FORMULATE FOUR TO EIGHT QUESTIONS BASED ON BLOOM’S HIGHER ORDER LEVELS LIKE… EXAMPLE #1 What are the possible ways ancient Brits could have moved the large stones to Stonehenge? EXAMPLE #2 Under what circumstances could a prehistoric animal survive in Loch Ness? EXAMPLE #3 What possible purposes could Machu Picchu have served? 3. RESEARCH TO FIND ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS… THE INTERNET BOOKS PERIODICALS INTERVIEW VIDEOS …CITE YOUR SOURCES 4. STUDY THEORIES AND ACCEPT THE MOST PLAUSIBLE AS YOUR OWN OR DEVELOP A THEORY OF YOUR OWN. THEORY #70 THEORY #1 I THINK… THEORY #35 THEORY # 62 5. LOOK THROUGH THE EYES OF A DISCIPLINARIAN TO DEVELOP A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT TO PROVE OR ADD CREDIBILITY TO YOUR THEORY. Anatomy Archaeology Astronomy Biochemistry Biology Biophysics Botany Chemistry Computer science Medicine Microbiology Neuroscience Paleontology Physical Anthropology Physics Virology Zoology Entomology Environmental Science/Ecology Genetics Geology Hydrology Immunology Mathematics 6. PUT YOUR FINDINGS IN A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION TO SHOW TO AN AUDIENCE.