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: Dr. Sugata Mitra	Prof Sugata Mitra | Founding Professor | NIIT University	Copyright © 2022 NIIT University.	https://niituniversity.in/faculty/prof-sugata-mitra-2	Google	Who started an experiment hole in a wall.
2.  What does NIIT stand for?   Answer: National Institute of Information Technoology	NIIT Full Form - National Institute of Information Technology (byjus.com)	© 2022, BYJU'S. All rights reserved.	https://byjus.com/full-form/niit-full-form/	Google	What does NIIT stand for?
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,New Delhi   Answer: Kalkaji	Hole-in-the-Wall - Beginnings	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	https://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	Google	It was 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:  For the people specially children to learn how  to use the computer without any assistance.	The Hole in the Wall Project and the Power of Self-Organized Learning | Edutopia	©2022 George Lucas Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.	https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra	Google	Why did they carve a hole in the hall?
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?   Answer: Hole in the Wall experiment showed how children in a Delhi slum could learn independently if given access to the internet	NOMANIS11-JUN21_BENNETT.pdf (amazonaws.com)	Tom Bennett Nomanis | Issue 11 | June 2021 |	https://multilitwebsite.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/Nomanis/JUNE-2021/NOMANIS11-JUN21_BENNETT.pdf	Google	What was the significant finding of the hole in the wall experiment?
6. What were the two headlines in New York Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919.   Answer: Drastic Steps to Fight Influenza, “Best Health Report for City in 53 Years,”	Echoes of Another Pandemic: How The Times Covered the 1918 Flu - The New York Times (nytimes.com)	© 2022 The New York Times Company	https://www.nytimes.com /2021/01/05/insider/1918-pandemic.html	Google	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: Weather and Atmosphere	Weather and atmosphere | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (noaa.gov)	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	https://www.noaa.gov/ education/resource-collections/weather- atmosphere	Google	The home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon
8. How does global warning affect polar bears?   Answer: They struggle to hunt their prey and caused lower growth rate and reproduction	Polar bear: a powerful predator on ice | WWF	The World Wide Fund for Nature Inc.	https://www.wwf.org.uk/ learn/wildlife/polar-bears	Google	How does global warning affect polar bears?
9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps . Answer: made of thin layers of calcium carbonate	What is a coral reef made of? (noaa.gov)	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	https://oceanservice.noaa. gov/facts/coralmadeof.html	Google	Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps
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	What is coral bleaching? (noaa.gov)	National Ocean Service | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	https://oceanservice.noaa. gov/facts/coral_bleach.html	Google	A process that causes 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: Massive coral bleaching that happened in the 2014-2015	Massive bleaching event puts world’s coral reefs at risk (mongabay.com)	Mongabay © 2022 Copyright Conservation news by Shreya Dasgupta on 13 October 2015	https://news.mongabay.com /2015/10/massive-bleaching-event-puts-worlds-coral-reefs-at-risk/	Google	The cause of the worst and biggest catastrophic mass mortality of coral reefs in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?   Answer: the population of elder people in Singapore is greater than in the Philippines. While the population of younger people is greater in Philippines.	Population of WORLD 2050 - PopulationPyramid.net	© December 2019 by PopulationPyramid.net	https://www.populationpyramid. net/world/2050/	Google	the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050