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	Hole-in-the-Wall Lightning the Sparks of Learning, 2015	Google.com	Phrase searching
2.  What does NIIT stand for?   Answer: National Institute of Information Technology	https://byjus.com/full-form/niit-full-form/	© 2022, BYJU'S	BYJU’S 2022	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/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Hole-in-the-Wall Lightning the Sparks of Learning, 2015	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: Through this hole, a freely accessible computer was put up for use.	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Hole-in-the-Wall Lightning the Sparks of Learning, 2015	Google.com	Phrase searching and Boolean Logic
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	Hole-in-the-Wall Lightning the Sparks of Learning, 2015	Google.com	Phrase searching and Boolean Logic
6. What were the two headlines in New York Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919.   Answer: The Mask Slackers of 1918 and Echoes of Another Pandemic: How the Times Covered the 1918 Flu	https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/insider/1918-pandemic.html   https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/us/mask-protests-1918.html	© 2022 The New York Times Company	https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/insider/1918-pandemic.html	Google.com	Term weighting
7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon   Answer: Wind	https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/wind	© 1996 - 2022 National Geographic Society	https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/wind	Google.com	Boolean Logic
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.carbonbrief.org/polar-bears-and-climate-change-what-does-the-science-say/	Carbon Brief Ltd © 2022	Rods Pidcock, 04.03.2015, 1:45pm	Google.com	Phrase searching
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.	https://coral.org/en/coral-reefs-101/how-reefs-are-made/	© 2022 Coral Reef Alliance	Coral Reef Alliance, https://coral.org/en/coral-reefs-101/how-reefs-are-made/	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://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.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: produce by unusual sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean since 2015 and have been on bleaching watch.	https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/indias-coral-reefs-experiencing-catastrophic-bleaching-heart-wrenching-scientist-says/	© 2022 Copyright Conservation news	Shreya Dasgupta,11 May 2016	Google.com	Phrase searching
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?   Answer: Both Philippines and Singapore will increase but Philippines will be higher.	https://www.populationpyramid.net/philippines/2050/   https://www.populationpyramid.net/singapore/2050/	© December 2019 by PopulationPyramid.net	PopulationPyramid.net	Google.com	Phrase searching