Buried Treasure on Oak Island

On each stop, click on the picture and you will be taken to a web site that will give you the answers to the questions which are written to the right of the picture.  Write the answers to your questions on loose leaf paper and keep the paper in your file folder labeled "Mystery and Wonder".  You will be given an evaluation sheet so that you know how your answers will be marked.  Remember to write in complete sentences.

Over two hundred years ago, three boys playing on an island off the coast of Nova Scotia, discovered a saucer shaped hollow.  Was this the site of buried treasure, as the boys believed ?
People today are still trying to discover the answer to that question.  Let's begin our tour of Oak Island
 

What lies at the bottom of the money pit ? Read the introduction on this page and then write a diary entry as if you were one of the boys who discovered the mysterious site on Oak Island.   Start your entry with "Dear Diary" or "Dear Journal".  Write at least one half a page to describe your excitement about the discovery on Oak Island.  Include in your diary entry an appropriate date, a description of the site, and a description of  what you think is contained in the maze of tunnels.

                         Read the timeline of Oak Island and answer the following questions.
 

1.  How many people have been killed so far in the search for treasure at Oak Island ? 2.  Name the three companies involved in the search from 1803-1893.

1.  Read the information about the stone by clicking on the picture of the miner. After you read about the stone, click on translation to discover the code used for the message. 2. Draw an outline of a stone and using the code provided, write your own message.  Pretend that you are a pirate or someone who has left treasure at the site.  Your message must be appropriate, and something that would keep the explorers of Oak Island guessing about the "money pit".  Provide a translation of your message.

1.Check out the list of artifacts (bottom half of the web page) found on Oak Island by clicking on the magnifying glass.  2. Once you have read the list decide which three discoveries you think were the most important to the searchers.  These three objects should be ones which would convince skeptics that there really is a treasure of some sort at Oak Island. 3.  Explain why you think each of the three objects would have been especially important to the search teams.

1. A friend of yours has e-mailed you from the United States.  He wants to know where Oak Island is located.  Write a paragraph to describe the location of Oak Island.  In your description include the province, the part of the province and the bay that surrounds Oak Island.  Your response might be something like:  "Dear Dan,  I received your message about Oak Island.  It has a really interesting story behind it.  This is where Oak Island is located . . . ."

                    Try and decide who the real culprit is behind the mystery of Oak Island.
 
 

1.  Read the eight theories about the mystery of Oak Island.  Pick the one which you think is most reasonable/likely and explain why you think it might be the answer to this two hundred year old mystery.

Read the "Fact and Question"  (F&Q) page and answer the following four questions in complete sentences.
 

1.  How much money would it cost to decide what to do next at Oak Island ? 2.  Can the public visit Oak Island ? 3.  When was the last work done on the exploration of Oak Island ? 4.  Who carried out that work ?

             Congratulations! You have finished the tour of Oak Island

The author acknowledges that this virtual tour would not have been possible without the assistance of the students and facilitator of the class ED525, Second Summer Session, U.P.E.I., July 2001.

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