European Mysteries

Teachers across Europe were supported in developing new teaching methods using mysteries or unexplained events, which, in turn, provided a platform for teachers to improve their ability to capture the attention of their students and motivate them to study science. The project equipped teachers with new resources and methods to teach STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Language, Maths History and Social Studiesusing a mystery as the starting point. The idea is to use mysteries or discrepant events to arouse student interest, motivate students to inquire and develop scientific explanations, and science enquiry skills

                                

Students should be able to recognize that science is more than memorizing and knowing facts.

Students should have the opportunity to develop new knowledge that builds on their prior nowledge and scientific ideas.
Students will develop new knowledge by restructuring their previous understandings of scientific concepts and adding new information earned.
Learning is influenced by students’ social environment whereby they have an opportunity to learn from each other.
Students will take control of their learning.
The extent to which students are able to learn with deep understanding will influence how transferable their new knowledge is to real-life context
generates curiosity and leads to questions;
generates a cognitive conflict
requires the students to use enquiry skills to explain the mystery
covers a sufficient part of the curriculum to justify the time spent

Adana Rotary Klübü Anaokulu-Berna Özarslan-TURKEY

One of the Legends of my country-ŞAHMERAN

The mystery of The Legend of ŞAHMERAN, mother of snakes, a Persian legend, Şahmeran has been the source of many stories both in Turkish culture and around the world. We have listed 8 interesting aspects of this mysterious mythic character, who appears in songs, movies, books and even accessories, in human form from the waist down on a snake.

On the other hand, there are also examples where Shahmeran is considered male. Even in some stories, the chain of events that resulted in Shahmeran's death begins with Shahmeran falling in love with the daughter of the Sultan of Tarsus and moves towards the inevitable end when he goes to the bath where he will be killed after her.

In all Shahmeran legends there is a young man who was admitted to the Kingdom of Shahmeran. This character is Lokman Hekim or Camsab in most stories. As a child left in a well in the forest by Camsab friends, Lokman is a teenager whose destiny is to become one of the world's most successful doctors.

Legend has it that Shahmeran is a creature that can be a panacea and heal every disease. But Lokman is injured when the doctor finds him in the forest and needs help. Lokman carries him to the physician's Palace, helping him with his treatment. In return, Shahmeran shares his knowledge of medicine with him. Shahmeran's mastery of medical knowledge is so great that it is thought that the snake in the medicine symbol used today is Shahmeran.

                      

All the stories originating from the shahmeran legend end with Shahmeran's death, which takes place in the bathhouse. When a person who has seen Shahmeran for once in his life enters the bath, his back flakes like a snake. If anyone knows where shahmeran is, the only way to find him is to check his back when he enters the bathhouse. When found, Shahmeran brought to the bath is killed here. It is believed that the Shahmeran Bath in the Kızılmurat District of Tarsus is the place where Shahmeran died.

Şahmeran öldüğü zaman vücudu üç parçaya bölünür ve kaynatılarak suyu çıkarılır. Bu üç farklı sudan biri tedavi edici özelliktedir, biri içen kişiyi öldürecek bir zehirdir, üçüncüsü ise içene tıp konusunda eşsiz bir bilgelik verecektir. Efsaneye göre Lokman Hekim ya da Camsab olarak değişen karakter bilgelik veren suyu içer ve dünyaca tanınan ünlü bir tıp insanına dönüşür.

LEGENDS ARE WHY

It's far from the truth, it has extraordinary features.

It contains the way of life, perspective and beliefs of the society.

It shows national characteristics.

It serves as a social function in the preservation of traditions. The values idealized in society under the sacred aspect of legends are both preserved and passed on to future generations.

Daily colloquial language is used in narratives. Thus, a large population is reached.

There are no limiting rules. It is briefly transferred from word of mouth.

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THE MYSTERY OF ANATOLIAN RUGS-TURKEY

BERNA ÖZARSLAN

                               

As with traditional arts, rugs are important as a part of life in our society, especially in rural areas, while on the other hand, they have been a means of carrying the cultural accumulation of the past generations to the present. Therefore, as with other works of art, rugs bear the heritage of the cultural elements produced and developed by humanity within the historical development of plastic expression.

Anatolian people, who had not read or been educated for years, tried to express their thoughts with their own distinctive shapes and colors, and embroidered these shapes, colors, carpet, rug, oil and socks.

When the young girl, in her village-city, opens her eyes and sees Yağız young men wandering around her like a prop, a fire falls into her, works-efforts prepare her dowry. Either he sits on the counter, weaves carpets and rugs, or he goes to the head of the rhinoceros, embroidering.

The Anatolian woman is a literate woman, when she is in charge of her workbench or rhino. He touches a book, reads it, who understands that language. It is woven peşkir, oil, carpet, rug. Especially, to say rugs in Anatolia, color means thirst for color.

People who yearn for green, red, blue and orange in Anatolia, which deteriorates as far as the eye can see, pour their thirst into rugs and try to eliminate the bee with clear colors. The people of Anatolia who want green from the tree, blue from the sky, red from the flowers, symbolize their yesilirlerinde... Therefore, rugs are a color table in Anatolia. He generously brings purple to purple, black to white, yellow to the table; he furnishes his house, his tent, with colors such as a feast feast, a wedding procession.

Anatolian rugs, the lines are hard, the colors are combative. Like the hard lines of harsh climates, harsh dryness, stone, rock, cracked soil, people who do not bend or soften after a very cold, freezing winter, without seeing spring, who live in a scorching heat...

Colors and patterns in Anatolian rugs are not chosen indiscriminately. Each region has its own unique rug. Colors and patterns reach hundreds of years in a chain of traditions.

The eye motif, which has been used for thousands of years in Anatolian rugs, especially in the folklore of different countries such as Asia and Africa, is a "evil eye" sign made against the evil and bad luck that can come with the look of any person. Stylized eye marks on rugs are a symbol of protection to ward off evils that may enter the House.

The Aries motif, seen in ancient Anatolian societies, symbolizes strength and abundance, as well as being considered a symbol of reproduction.