Scavenger Hunt! Activity 1: Mining the Internet: Laying the Foundation of Knowledge Based Society

Ashley Anne Fortich

10 - Maxwell

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://g.co/kgs/U74gxZ	© 2022, BYJU’S. All rights reserved.	Byju's.com, 2022	Google.com	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: Through this hole, a freely accessible computer was put up for use. This computer proved to be an instant hit among the slum dwellers, especially the children. With no prior experience, 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	2015  8, Balaji Estate, Guru Ravi Das Marg Kalkaji, New Delhi - 110 019 INDIA.	Google.com	Phrase Searching
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	2015  8, Balaji Estate, Guru Ravi Das Marg Kalkaji, New Delhi - 110 019 INDIA.	Google.com	Phrase Searching
6. What were the two headlines in New York Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919.   Answer:  The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in New York City: A Review of the Public Health Response The Mask Slackers of 1918	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862336/  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/us/mask-protests-1918.html	© 2010 Association of Schools of Public Health © 2022 The New York Times Company	Francesco Aimone, 2010 Christine Hauser, 2020	Google.com Google.com	Phrase Searching 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 warming affect polar bears?   Answer: Polar Bears Really Are Starving Because of Global Warming, Study Shows	https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/polar-bears-starve-melting-sea-ice-global-warming-study-beaufort-sea-environment	© 2015-2022 National Geographic Partners, LLC. All rights reserved	Stephen Leahy	Google.com	Pseudo-boolean Logic
9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps . 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	The Coral Reef Alliance 1330 Broadway, Suite 600 Oakland, CA 94612	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 https://reefresilience.org/stressors/bleaching/bleaching-impacts/	© National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2022   © 2022 The Nature Conservancy	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration     The Nature Conservancy	Google.com      Google.com	Phrase Searching   Boolean Logic
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: massive coral bleaching triggered by climate change; 2014	https://news.mongabay.com/2015/10/massive-bleaching-event-puts-worlds-coral-reefs-at-risk	© 2022 Copyright Conservation notes	Shreya Dasgupta	Google.com	Phrase Searching
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050? Answer: The population of Singapore on 2050 will consist mostly of old people. Meanwhile, in the Philippines, there will be more young people. Singapore: 6,407,527  Philippines: 144,488,171	https://www.populationpyramid.net/philippines/2050/	© December 2019 by PopulationPyramid.net	PopulationPyramid.Net	Google.com	Phrase Searching