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 | Dr. Sugata Mitra, Hole in the wall/ | Google.com | Sometime in 1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT named |
2. What does NIIT stand for?
Answer: National Institute of Information Technology | http://blog.acronymfinder.com/ | © 1988-2022, Acronym Finder, All Rights Reserved. | http://blog.acronymfinder.com | Google.com | What does NIIT stands for? |
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,
Answer: Kalkaji | http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html | © Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015 | Dr. Sugata Mitra, Hole in the wall | Google.com | 1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT |
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 | Dr. Sugata Mitra, Hole in the wall | Google,com | 1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT |
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?
Answer: the children learned to use the computer on their own | http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html | © Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015 | Dr. Sugata Mitra, Hole in the wall | Google.com | What was the significant finding of the experiment? |
6. What were the two headlines in Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919.
Answer: Drastic Steps to Fight Influenza (havoc caused by German U-boats to the immense final Allied offensive.) | https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/insider/1918-pandemic.html | © 2022 The New York Times Company | The new York times, 1918 | Google.com | What were the two headlines in Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919.
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7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon
Answer: thunderstorm | https://www.britannica.com/science/thunderstorm | ©Britannica | E. Philip Krider.
| Google.com | home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather
disturbances and
phenomenon
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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=Challenges%20affecting%20polar%20bears&text=The%20Arctic%20is%20warming%20about,ice%20to%20raise%20their%20young. | WWF-UK is a registered charity in England and Wales 1081247 and in Scotland SC039593 and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales 4016725.
| WWF-UK | Google.com | How does global warning affect polar bears?
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9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps . Answer: s 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 Alliance | Great Star Coral at night, Grand Cayman. Photo by Ellen Cuylaerts / Ocean Image Bank.Coral Reef Alliance | Google.com | Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps. |
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_bleaching#:~:text=Coral%20bleaching%20is%20the%20process,the%20coral%20to%20turn%20white. | Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. | page was last edited on 21 October 2022. Wikipedia | Google.com | Environmental imbalance can induce polyps to expel their algae and loose their 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
Answer: Mass coral bleaching. Early 1980’s. | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00158/full | © 2022 Frontiers Media S.A. All rights reserved | O Hoegh-Guldberg ·2017. Frontiers | Google.com | cause of the worst and biggest catastrophic mass mortality of coral reefs in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. |
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of
Answer: singapore’s pyramid is in mirroring form while Philippines is in | Ph
Singapore
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Shape of the population pyramid of Philippines
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Shape of the population pyramid of Singapore
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