SCAVENGER HUNT!

 

SCAVENGER HUNT!

Activity 1:

Mining the Internet: Laying the Foundation of Knowledge Based Society

Nuggets	URL	Copyright	Value: Sources/ Author /Date Published/ Sponsor	Search Engine	Search Term
1. Sometime in 1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT named _________ started an experiment hole in a wall.   Answer: Sugata Mitra	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/abouthiwel.html	© Hold-in-the-Wall Education Project 2016 | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use	HiWEP/ 2016	Google	a chief scientist at the NIIT named
2.  What does NIIT stand for?   Answer: National Institute of Information Technology	https://byjus.com/full-form/niit-full-form/	© 2022, BYJU’S. All rights reserved.	BYJU’S/2022	Google	What does NIIT stand for?
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,New Delhi   Answer:Kalkaji	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/abouthiwel.html	© Hold-in-the-Wall Education Project 2016 | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use	HiWEP/ 2016	Google	first implemented at a slum area in New Delhi
4. His team carved a hole in the wall that separated NIIT campuses from the slum areas. Why did they carve a hole in the hall? Answer: Dr. Mitra’s Team. It aims to discover how much poor children in slums and rural areas of India can learn from a web-based curriculum through a purpose-built Internet kiosk.	https://s6cmedia.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/sugata-mitra-hole-in-the-wall/     https://disclosures.ifc.org/project-detail/SPI/10665/niit-hole-in-the-wall	S6C Media and Film Blog/ Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.   © 2022 IFC	Reno/March 7, 2016/ Media in the Online age     IFC/2022/NIIT	Google	His team carved a hole in the wall   Why did they carve a hole in the hall?
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?   Answer: Sugata Mitra’s Hole in the Wall project showed that children could teach themselves, and each other, how to use technology.	https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra	©2022 George Lucas Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.	Sugata Mitra/ February 3, 2012	Google	What was the significant finding of the experiment hole in the wall?
6. What were the two headlines in New York Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919.   Answer: The Killer Flu of 1918: A Philadelphia Story and The Mask Slackers of 1918- The New York Times	The Killer Flu of 1918: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-spanish-flu-philadelphia-pennsylvania.html   The Mask Slackers of 1918: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/us/mask-protests-1918.html	The Killer Flu of 1918: ©2022 The New York Times Company   The Mask Slackers of 1918: ©2022 The New York Times Company	The Killer Flu of 1918: Dan Barry and Caitlin Dickerson/ April 4, 2020   The Mask Slackers of 1918: Christine Hauser/ Aug 3, 2020	Google	the two headlines in New York Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919
7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon   Answer: Thunderstorm	https://www.britannica.com/science/thunderstorm	©2022 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.	Krider, E. Philip/ October 29, 2020	Google	home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances
8. How does global warning affect polar bears?   Answer: Global warming causes the ice that polar bears depend on to melt away.	https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/wildlife/polar-bears	©WWF / Sindre Kinnerød	Steven Kazlowski/ 2022	Google	How does global warning affect polar bears?
9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps. Answer: True	https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coralmadeof.html	Courtesy: NOAA	NOAA/ February 26, 2021	Google
10. Severe environmental imbalance can induce polyps to expel their algae and loose their color. This process is known as _________. Will this phenomenon affect the growth of fish stocks?   Answer: Coral bleaching. Yes.	https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/everything-you-need-to-know-about-coral-bleaching-and-how-we-can-stop-it	©2022 World Wildlife Fund. WWF® and ©1986 Panda Symbol owned by WWF. All rights reserved.	Lorin Hancock	Google	the process of severe environmental imbalance can induce polyps to expel their algae and loose their color
11. What according to scientist was the cause of the worst and biggest catastrophic mass mortality of coral reefs in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. When did this happen?   Answer: 2016El Niño	https://e360.yale.edu/features/inside-look-at-catastrophic-bleaching-of-the-great-barrier-reef-2017-hughes	©2021, Yale University. All rights reserved.	Richard Schiffman/ April 10, 2017	Google	when did the worst and biggest catastrophic mass mortality of coral reefs in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean happened?
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?   Answer: Philippines in 2050 have 144,488,171 population in total while Singapore has 6, 407, 527 population. The population of the Philippines is far greater than that of Singapore	https://www.populationpyramid.net/singapore/2050/   https://www.populationpyramid.net/philippines/2050/	© December 2019 by PopulationPyramid.net	PopulationPyramid.net/2019	Google	Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?