Scavanger Hunt

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 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

2015 

8, Balaji

Estate,

Guru Ravi

Das

Marg

Kalkaji,

New Delhi

- 110 019

INDIA.

 Google.com

 Phrase Searching

2.  What does NIIT stand for?

 

Answer: National Institute of Information Technology

 https://www.embibe.com/exams/niit-full-form/

©Individual Learning Ltd

 TEAM_EMBIBE/

09-06-2022

 Bing

Phrase Searching

3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,New Delhi

 

Answer: Kalkaji

 https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning -sugata-mitra

 ©2022 George Lucas Educational Foundation, All Rights Reserved

 Sugatra Mitra 

Google.com

Pseudo-Boolean Logic 

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: To have the computer freely accessible and usable to the residents of the adjacent slums. 

 https://niitfoundation.org/hole-in-the-wall-learning-stations/

 

 NIIT Foundation

 Yahoo

 NIIT campus hole in the wall reason

5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?

 

Answer: The children learn to operate as well as play with the computer with minimum intervention. They picked up skills and tasks by constructing their own learning environment.

 http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html

 ©Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015

 

 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/Christine Hauser/August 3,2020

 Google.com

 Phrase Searching

7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather

disturbances and

phenomenon

 

Answer: global atmospheric circulation

 cied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-weather-works/global-air-atmospheric-circulation





 ©2022 UCAR

 UCAR Center for Science Education

 Bing.com

 Phrase Searching

8. How does global warning

affect polar bears?

 

Answer: It causes decline in the species' population  size, retreat of sea ice platforms, lessening of hunting time for polar bears, and scarcity of food.

 https://connectusfund.org/how-is-global-warming-affecting-polar-bears

©2022 CONNECTUSFUND


 Natalie Regoli/June 29, 2015

 Bing.com

 Phrase Searching

9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps

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Answer:  The corals that build reefs are known as “hard” or “reef-building” corals.

 https://coral.org/en/coral-reefs-101/how-reefs-are-made/

 ©CORAL REEF ALLIANCE 2022

 

 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://pressbooks.pub/tropicalmarinebio/chapter/coral-bleaching/

 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

 Keene State

 Ask.com

Coral polyps expel algae lose color

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: Third Global Bleaching Event. 2014-2017

https://coast.noaa.gov/states/fast-facts/coral-reefs.html


NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program/ Office for Coastal Management/11/02/2022

Yahoo.com

 Indian Ocean mass mortality of coral reefs

12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?

 

Answer: Singapore- 6.40 million


Philippines- 144.49 million

https://statisticstime.com

 ©WORLDS STATISTICS

 

 Google.com

Boolean Logic

 

 

 

 

 

 

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