Scavengers Hunt

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: Sugata Mitra	https://niituniversity.in/faculty/prof-sugata-mitra-2	Copyright © 2022 NIIT University.	NITT University	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	https://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	HiWEP, 2005	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: The Hole in the Wall project aims to discover how much poor children in slums and rural areas of India can learn from a web-based curriculum through a purpose-built Internet kiosk.	https://disclosures.ifc.org/project-detail/SPI/10665/niit-hole-in-the-wall	© 2022 IFC	by (IFP) International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group	Google.com	Phrase Searching
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment? Answer: The children seemed to learn to use the computer without any assistance. Language did not matter, and neither did education. Children were able to develop deep learning by teaching themselves.	https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra	©2022 George Lucas Educational Foundation.	By Sugata Mitra on February 3, 2012	Google.com	Pseudo-Boolean logic
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 Echoes of Another Pandemic	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862336/	© 2010 Association of Schools of Public Health	Francesco Aimone	Google.com	Phrase Searching
7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon Answer: atmosphere	https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-weather-works/global-air-atmospheric-circulation	© 2022 UCAR	UCAR Center for Science Education	Google.com	Phrase Searching
8. How does global warning affect polar bears? Answer: polar bears loss their habitat and food	https://paperap.com/paper-on-global-warming-affects-polar-bears/	©2016-2022Paperap.com	December 07, 2019	Google.com	Phrase Searching
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	Coral Reef Alliance	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://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_bleach.html	© OCEAN SERVICE	National Ocean Service	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: The mass bleaching of coral currently underway in the Lakshadweep is being caused by unusually high sea surface temperatures as the Indian Ocean swelters under particularly unforgiving El Niño conditions.	https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/indias-coral-reefs-experiencing-catastrophic-bleaching-heart-wrenching-scientist-says/	© 2022 Copyright Conservation news	by Shreya Dasgupta on 11 May 2016	Google.com	Phrase Searching
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050? Answer: The Philippine population will decrease further to 144.49 million in 2050, while the Singapore population will increase to 6.40 million in 2050.	https://statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/singapore-population.php	© 2021 - StatisticsTimes.com	UN (World Population Prospects 2019)	Google.com	Boolean Logic

 

Reference:

Avenidas Re-Inventing Aging. Scavenger Hunt Winner Announced. Avenidas Media, 2020. Retrieved November 05, 2022.

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