"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#:~:text=Dr.,%2Din%2Dthe%2DWall.	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	Google	PHRASE SEARCHNG
2.  What does NIIT stand for?   Answer: National Institute of Information Technology	https://byjus.com/full-form/niit-full-form/#:~:text=The%20full%20form%20of%20NIIT%20is%20the%20National%20Institute%20of,also%20offers%20corporate%20IT%20solutions.	© 2022, BYJU'S	https://byjus.com/ 3rd Floor, Prestige Pinnacle, 7th Block, Koramangala, Bangalore, 560068	Google	PHRASE SEARCHNG
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,New Delhi   Answer: Kalkaji	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html#:~:text=Dr.,%2Din%2Dthe%2DWall.	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	Google	PHRASE SEARCHNG
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. The computer was an instant hit among the slum dwellers, especially the children. With no prior experience of computers, the children took to operating them as fish take to water	https://scoonews.com/news/news-meet-sugata-mitra-who-feels-primary-education-may-not-need-teachers-651/	© 2016-2022 | ScooNews	Published 7 years ago on April 19, 2016 By Varun Bodhwani	Google	PHRASE SEARCHNG
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?   Answer: The experiment is a particularly useful method to explain change, to look at cause and effect, or to deduce a hypotheses from a theory.	https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/how-to/observation/conduct-experiments	© 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited	https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/how-to/observation/conduct-experiments	Google	PHRASE SEARCHNG
6. What were the two headlines in New York Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919.   Answer: New York City approached the 1918 influenza epidemic by making use of its existing robust public health infrastructure. Health officials worked to prevent the spread of contagion by distancing healthy New Yorkers from those infected, increasing disease surveillance capacities, and mounting a large-scale health education campaign while regulating public spaces such as schools and theaters. Control measures, such as those used for spitting, were implemented through a spectrum of mandatory and voluntary measures.	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862336/	N/A	Public Health Reports are provided here courtesy of SAGE Publications	Google	PHRASE SEARCHNG
7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon   Answer: thunderstorm	https://www.britannica.com/science/thunderstorm	N/A	https://www.britannica.com/science/thunderstorm	Google	PHRASE SEARCHNG
8. How does global warning affect polar bears?   Answer: The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the global average, causing the ice that polar bears depend on to melt away. Loss of sea ice also threatens the bear's main prey, seals, which need the ice to raise their young.	https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/wildlife/polar-bears#:~:text=Previous%20Next-,Climate%20change,ice%20to%20raise%20their%20young.	© The Climate Coalition/ WWF	WWF-UK is a registered charity in England and Wales 1081247 and in Scotland SC039593 and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales 4016725.	Google	PHRASE SEARCHNG
9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps . Answer: Coral reefs are built by coral polyps as they secrete layers of calcium carbonate beneath their bodies. The corals that build reefs are known as “hard” or “reef-building” corals. Soft corals, such as sea fans and sea whips, do not produce reefs.	https://coral.org/en/coral-reefs-101/how-reefs-are-made/#:~:text=Coral%20reefs%20are%20built%20by,whips%2C%20do%20not%20produce%20reefs.	© 2022 Coral Reef Alliance |	The Coral Reef Alliance 548 Market Street Suite 29802 San Francisco, CA 94104-5401	Google	PHRASE SEARCHNG
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	Lorin Hancock	Google	PHRASE SEARCHNG
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: In 2014, NOAA Coral Reef Watch wrote in Reef Encounter about the prospect for a 2014-15 El Niño (Eakin et al. 2014). While that El Niño never fully formed, it did help set off a three-year global coral bleaching event -- the third ever documented. A subsequent 2015-16 strong El Niño formed, spreading and worsening the bleaching (Eakin et al. 2016), and a La Niña reared its head thereafter, further extending the event into 2017, as predicted by Coral Reef Watch.	https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/analyses_guidance/global_coral_bleaching_2014-17_status.php	N/A	coralreefwatch@noaa.gov	Google	PHRASE SEARCHNG
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?   Answer: BOTH PH AND SINGAPORE WILL INCREASE BUT PH WILL BE HIGHER	https://	December 2019 by PopulationPyramid.net	PopulationPyramid.net	Google	PHRASE SEARCHNG