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. Sugatta Mitra	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/ Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/	Google.com	Boolean Logic
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.	https://byjus.com/	Google.com	Phrase Searching
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,New Delhi   Answer: Kalkaji	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Project 2016	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/	Google.com	Phrase Searching
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 a freely use of accessible computer	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Project 2016	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/	Google.com	Phrase Searching
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?   Answer: 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.	https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra	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/2020/08/03/us/mask-protests-1918.html	Google.com	Phrase Searching
7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon   Answer: Tropical Cyclone	https://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/information/about-tropical-cyclone	2017 Copyright PAGASA. All Rights Reserved.	https://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/information/about-tropical-cyclone	Google.com	Phrase Searching
8. How does global warning affect polar bears?   Answer: Polar Bears are starving. They use to much energy because as the ice melts every year, that go further and further to find seal.	https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/polar-bears-starve-melting-sea-ice-global-warming-study-beaufort-sea-environment	Copyright © 1996-2015 National Geographic Society	https://www.nationalgeographic.com/	Google.com	Phrase Searching
9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps . Answer: thin layers of calcium carbonate	https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coralmadeof.html	© National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/	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	https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_bleach.html	© National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/	Google.com	Phrase Searching
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: Bleaching and disease in 1998	https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/26/bleaching-and-disease-are-devastating-the-biggest-coral-reef-in-the-continental-united-states/	© 1996-2022 The Washington Post	https://www.washingtonpost.com/ Chelsea Harvey/ October 26, 2015	Google.com	Phrase Searching
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?   Answer: The Philippine population pyramid is wider than Singapore's. Furthermore, Singaporeans have a higher life expectancy than Filipinos.	https://www.populationpyramid.net/philippines/2050/	© December 2019 by PopulationPyramid.net	https://www.populationpyramid.net/	Google.com	Phrase Searching