Knowledge 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	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://byjus.com/full-form/niit-full-form/#:~:text=The%20full%20form%20of%20NIIT%20is%20the%20National%20Institute%20of,also%20offers%20corporate%20IT%20solutions.	© 2022, BYJU'S.	Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital India, et. al	Google.com	Phrase Searching
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,New Delhi   Answer: The hole in the Wall Project	https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra	©2022 George Lucas Educational Foundation	Sugata Mitra	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: A computer was set up in the hole.	https://niitfoundation.org/hole-in-the-wall-learning-stations/	© Copyright 2022 NIIT Foundation. Top of Form Bottom of Form	NIIT Foundation 8, Balaji Estate Kalkaji New Delhi -110019	Google.com	Phrase Searching
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?   Answer: NIIT's Hole-in-the-Wall, “What started as an experiment has become India's gift to the world.”	https://www.niit.com/authoring/NewsRoom/MediaKit/News%20Reprints/Reprint-Week-hole-in-the-wall.pdf	2008	8 Balaji Estate, Sudarshan Munjal Marg, Kalkaji, New Delhi-110019	Google.com	Phrase Searching
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/2020/08/03/us/mask-protests-1918.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/insider/1918-pandemic.html	2020	© 2022 The New York Times Company	Google.com	Phrase Searching
7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon   Answer: Atmosphere	https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/weather-atmosphere	2021	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Room 5128 Washington, DC 20230	Google.com	Phrase Searching
8. How does global warning affect polar bears?   Answer: causing the ice that polar bears depend on to melt away	https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/wildlife/polar-bears#:~:text=Previous%20Next-,Climate%20change,ice%20to%20raise%20their%20young.			Google.com	Phrase Searching
9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps . Answer:  as they secrete layers of calcium carbonate beneath their bodies	https://coral.org/en/coral-reefs-101/how-reefs-are-made/#:~:text=Coral%20reefs%20are%20built%20by,whips%2C%20do%20not%20produce%20reefs.	© 2022 Coral Reef Allianc	The Coral Reef Alliance 548 Market Street Suite 29802 San Francisco, CA 94104-5401	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#:~:text=When%20water%20is%20too%20warm,This%20is%20called%20coral%20bleaching.	2021	N/MB6, SSMC4, Room 9149 1305 East-West Hwy Silver Spring, MD 20910	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. 2015	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	Chelsea Harvey October 26, 2015 at 11:09 a.m. EDT	Google.com	Phrase Searching
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?   Answer: Philippines has more population than Singapore.	https://www.populationpyramid.net/philippines/2050/	© December 2019 by PopulationPyramid.net,	Made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/	Google.com	Phrase Searching

 Source/s

Patel. (n.d.). 37 Search Engines to Use Other than Google. Retrieved November 8, 2022, from https://neilpatel.com/blog/alternative-search-engines/