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: Sugata Mitra	niitfoundation.org/hole-in-the-wall-learning-stations/	© Copyright 2022 NIIT Foundation.	niitfoundation.org/ niitfoundation.org/ 2019-07-12	Google.com	niit chief scientist hole in the wall
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.	byjus.com/full-form/niit -full-form// byjus.com/full-form/niit-full-form//2005-04-20	Google.com	niit meaning
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ , New Delhi   Answer: Kalkaji	https://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/abouthiwel.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Project 2016	hole-in-the-wall.com/abouthiwel.html/ hole-in-the-wall.com/abouthiwel.html/2005-07-11	Google.com	hole in the wall was first implemented at a slum area
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: Dr. Sugata Mitra, It was to see how the kids from the slums would interact with the computer	https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/virtual-vidyalaya-integration-pervasive-computing/41595	Copyright © 1988-2022, IGI Global - All Rights Reserved/ Copyright: © 2010	Virtual Vidyalaya: An Integration of Pervasive Computing and E-Learning/ Ashutosh Kasera (Rai Business School, Delhi, India) and Piyush Ranjan (Rai Business School, Delhi, India)/2010	Google.com	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?
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?   Answer: how children in a Delhi slum could learn independently if given access to the internet	https://multilitwebsite.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/Nomanis/JUNE-2021/NOMANIS11-JUN21_BENNETT.pdf	© 2021	Sugata Mitra and the Hole in the Research/Tom Bennett/2021-06-23	Google.com	What did Mitra find from his experiments?
6. What were the two headlines in New York Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919.   Answer: PORTO RICAN DISTRESS PUT BEFORE PRESIDENT; Governor Yager Urges the Necessity of Repairing Ravages of Earthquake and Influenza.   DRASTIC STEPS TAKEN TO FIGHT INFLUENZA HERE	https://www.nytimes.com/1918/ 10/05/archives/drastic-steps-taken-to-fight-influenza-here-health-board- issues-4.html   www.nytimes.com/1919/ 03/02/archives/porto-rican-distress-put-before-president-governor-yager-urges-the.html	© 2022   The New York Times Company	PORTO RICAN DISTRESS PUT BEFORE PRESIDENT; Governor Yager Urges the Necessity of Repairing Ravages of Earthquake and Influenza.   DRASTIC STEPS TAKEN TO FIGHT INFLUENZA HERE/NYTimes/1918-1919	Google.com	What were the two 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: Thunderstorm	https://britannica.com/ science/thunderstorm	©2021 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. All Rights Reserved.	Thunderstorm meteorology/E. Philip Krider/ 29 Oct. 2020	Google.com	home to moving air currents, clouds, storms, and other weather disturbances and phenomenon
8. How does global warming affect polar bears?   Answer: Warming has been linked to increases in contamination and exposure to diseases. Unusually warm weather in winter can cause dens to collapse, which females build to birth and protect their young.	https://www.carbonbrief.org/ polar-bears-and-climate-change-what-does-the-science-say/	Published by Carbon Brief Ltd © 2022 - Company No. 07222041	Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?/Roz Pidcock/2015-03-04	Google.com	How does global warming affect polar bears?
9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps . Answer: an invertebrate that can be no bigger than a pinhead to up to a foot in diameter	https://floridakeys.noaa.gov /corals/coralanimals.html	©NOAA gov All rights reserved.	floridakeys.noaa.gov /corals/coralanimals.html/ floridakeys.noaa.gov /corals/coralanimals.html/2011-04-04	Google.com	Coral polyps*
10. Severe environmental imbalance can induce polyps to expel their algae and lose their color. This process is known as _________. Will this phenomenon affect the growth of fish stocks?   Answer: Coral Bleaching, Yes	https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coral_bleaching	© Wikepedia	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coral_bleaching/ en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coral_bleaching/2017-05-31	Google.com	Coral’s losing of color
11. What according to scientists 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: high temperatures, 1998 and 2005	https://www.sciencedirect.com /science/article/pii/ S2352485518306017	© 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V.	Dealing with the effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs in the  Indian Ocean and Asia/  Vicky W.Y.Lam, Suchana Chavanich, Salpie Djoundourian, and etc./2019-04	Google.com	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: Singapore 6,407,527 Humans   Philippines 144,488,171 Humans	populationpyramid.net/ world/2050/	© December 2019 by Population Pyramid .net	populationpyramid.net/world /2050/populationpyramid.net/ 2019	Google.com	Population Pyramid 2050

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