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: Dr. Sugata Mitra	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	2015   8, Balaji   Estate,   Guru Ravi   Das   Marg   Kalkaji,   New Delhi   - 110 019   INDIA.		Phrase Searching
2.  What does NIIT stand for?   Answer: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY	https://www.acronymfinder.com/National-Institute-of-Information-Technology-(India)-(NIIT).html	©Individual Learning Ltd	TEAM_EMBIBE/   09-06-2022	Bing	Phrase Searching
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,New Delhi   Answer: Kalkaji	https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning -sugata-mitra	©2022 George Lucas Educational Foundation, All Rights Reserved	Sugatra Mitra	Google.com	Pseudo-Boolean Logic
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: Through this hole, a freely accessible computer was put up for use.	https://niitfoundation.org/hole-in-the-wall-learning-stations/		NIIT Foundation	Yahoo	NIIT campus hole in the wall reason
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?   Answer: the children learnt to use the computer on their own	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	©Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015		Google.com	Phrase Searching
6. What were the two headlines in New York Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919.   Answer: The influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars	https://www.nytimes,com/2020/08/03/us/mask-protests-1918.html	©2022 The New York Times Company	https://www.nytimes.com/Christine Hauser/August 3,2020	Google.com	Phrase Searching
7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon   Answer: global atmospheric circulation	cied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-weather-works/global-air-atmospheric-circulation	©2022 UCAR	UCAR Center for Science Education	Bing.com	Phrase Searching
8. How does global warning affect polar bears?   Answer: It causes decline in the species' population  size, retreat of sea ice platforms, lessening of hunting time for polar bears, and scarcity of food.	https://connectusfund.org/how-is-global-warming-affecting-polar-bears	©2022 CONNECTUSFUND	Natalie Regoli/June 29, 2015	Bing.com	Phrase Searching
9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps . Answer: The corals that build reefs are known as “hard” or “reef-building” corals.	https://coral.org/en/coral-reefs-101/how-reefs-are-made/	©CORAL REEF ALLIANCE 2022		Google.com	Phrase Searching
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://pressbooks.pub/tropicalmarinebio/chapter/coral-bleaching/	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License	Keene State	Ask.com	Coral polyps expel algae lose 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: Third Global Bleaching Event. 2014-2017	https://coast.noaa.gov/states/fast-facts/coral-reefs.html		NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program/ Office for Coastal Management/11/02/2022	Yahoo.com	Indian Ocean mass mortality of coral reefs
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?   Answer: Singapore- 6.40 million       Philippines- 144.49 million	https://statisticstime.com	©WORLDS STATISTICS		Google.com	Boolean Logic