Down the Rabbit Hole

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	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google.com	Hole in the wall experiment
2.  What does NIIT stand for? Answer: National Institute of Information Technology	https://byjus.com/full-form/niit-full-form/	© 2022, BYJU'S	© 2022, BYJU'S	Google.com	NIIT definition
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______, New Delhi Answer: Kalkaji	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google.com	Hole in the wall experiment
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 test Mitra’s idea of unsupervised learning and computers	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google.com	Hole in the wall experiment
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment? Answer: The children who used the unsupervised computers manages to acquire computer skills on their own.	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Google.com	Hole in the wall experiment
6. What were the two headlines in New York Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918-1919. Answer: Drastic Steps To Fight Influenza Here, Red Cross Active In Influenza Fight	https://www.influenzaarchive.org/	N/A	N/A	Google.com	New York Times AND Influenza
7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon. Answer: Troposphere	https://www.albany.edu/faculty/rgk/atm101/structur.htm	N/A	N/A	Google.com	Where does weather disturbances and phenomenon occur
8. How does global warming affect polar bears? Answer: it will affect their ability to find food; they will become more food-stressed; it increases in contamination and exposure to diseases	https://www.carbonbrief.org/polar-bears-and-climate-change-what-does-the-science-say/	© 2022, Carbon Brief Ltd	Roz Pidock, April 03, 2015, Carbon Brief Ltd	Google.com	“effects of global warming on polar bears”
9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps. Answer: True	https://coral.org/en/coral-reefs-101/how-reefs-are-made/	© 2022 Coral Reef Alliance	© 2022 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 lose their color. This process is known as _____. Will this affect the growth of fish stocks? Answer: Coral bleaching, yes	https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_corals/coral02_zooxanthellae.html	N/A	National Ocean Service	Google.com	Polyps expel their algae and loose their color
11. What according to scientists 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: caused by  severe heat stress and  prolonged anomalously warm ocean temperatures, 2014-2017	https://coast.noaa.gov/states/fast-facts/coral-reefs.html   https://phys.org/news/2019-08-largest-ever-coral-global-solution-reefs.html	N/A             © Phys.org 2003 – 2022	NOAA Office for Coastal Management, October 27, 2022       Wildlife Conservation Society, August 12, 2019	Google.com	Indo-Pacific coral bleaching
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and the Philippines in 2050? Answer: The shape of the Philippines’ population pyramid is smoother compared to Singapore’s as the progression of the population steadily increases from older ages to younger ages, while in Singapore’s pyramid, the population increases and decreases multiple times from older ages to younger ages.	https://ws3rossello.weebly.com/population.html   https://croatiagives.weebly.com/singapore-population.html	N/A	N/A	Google.com	Philippine population pyramid 2050, Singapore population pyramid 2050