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 |
| © 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 | © 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 |
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