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S a f a r i S e a r c h Teacher(cid:213)s Guide TI-73 ~Permissions~ All Sunburst material is copyrighted. However, Sunburst does give the purchas- er the following permissions: ¥ You have permission to reproduce any student worksheet in this guide for your classroom use. You should not, however, copy the whole guide. ¥ If you purchased this program for one computer, you may use it on a sin- gle computer. ¥ If you wish to use this software on multiple computers, you must pur- chase the right to do so from Sunburst. Call and ask for lab pack/site licensing prices. ¥ You have permission to use lab packs/site licenses within one site. You do not, however, have permission to divide the package and use the software in more than one site. ~credits~ DESIGNER: Thomas C. O(cid:213)Brien PROJECT MANAGER: Joan Jacobsen PROJECT EDITOR: Carrie Gerardi PROGRAMMING: Saltire Software, Inc. SOFTWARE GRAPHICS: Paul Lanquist QUALITY CONTROL: Gregory Sillins DESKTOP PUBLISHER: Carrie Gerardi EDITOR: Emilie Rappoport Copyright ' 1999 Sunburst Communications, Inc. TI-GRAPH LINK is a trademark of Texas Instruments Incorporated. Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. For more information or for a free catalog, call or write: Sunburst Communications, Inc. 101 Castleton Street Pleasantville, NY 10570 Toll-free: 1-800-321-7511 Or call collect: 1-914-747-3310 Visit us on the Web: www.SUNBURST.com ~table of contents~ Introduction................................................................................................................................1 Installation ..................................................................................................................................5 Hardware and Software Requirements............................................................................5 Installing Safari Search to a TI-73 ......................................................................................5 Overview ....................................................................................................................................7 Activity Overview......................................................................................................................9 Getting Started ........................................................................................................................11 Program Description ..............................................................................................................15 Menu Bar Options..............................................................................................................15 CLUE Option................................................................................................................15 FIND/CATCH Options..............................................................................................16 SHOW Option..............................................................................................................16 0 Option ........................................................................................................................16 OPTS menu ..................................................................................................................16 QUIT Option ................................................................................................................17 Find the Flamingo ................................................................................................................19 Search Out the Seal..............................................................................................................21 Locate the Loon ....................................................................................................................23 Discover the Dragon ............................................................................................................25 Detect the Donkey................................................................................................................27 Catch the Kittens..................................................................................................................29 Round up the Rhinos............................................................................................................31 Sight the Snails ....................................................................................................................33 Collect the Kangaroos ..........................................................................................................35 Capture the Cats ..................................................................................................................37 Evaluation ................................................................................................................................39 Safari Search Grid......................................................................................................................43 Troubleshooting ......................................................................................................................45 Error Recovery Instructions for the TI-73......................................................................45 Miscellaneous ....................................................................................................................46 Technical Support..............................................................................................................46 ~introduction~ Much of present-day school education amounts to the transmis- sion of associations or lists. In science, children learn Roy G. Biv for the colors of the rainbow (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet). In social studies, they connect names with names, and names with dates. Nevada? Carson City. George Washington? 1732. Lightning rod? Benjamin Franklin. Even the complex causes of the Civil War get reduced to four or five items on a laundry list. In spelling, children learn long lists of phonic rules. (cid:210)Memorize these lists and you will be a good speller.(cid:211) Teachers report that this doesn(cid:213)t work very well. In math, things are much the same. As early as first grade, children chant out number facts and memorize them for speed tests. In second grade, they tackle the procedural steps of subtraction (a nightmare for most teachers), and later they take on longer procedural lists, such as (cid:210)Dead Mice Smell Bad(cid:211) (i.e., Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring down)(cid:209)used for long division. 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Knowledge doesn(cid:213)t amount to isolated connections and lists and procedures, although such connections are sometimes useful. Rather, knowledge is a fabric, a network. It is a web of information and relationships, and hunches and inferences in interaction with one another and with the world. Safari Search 1 I NTRODUCTION This fabric tends toward coherence, stability, economy, and gener- alizability. It is not a bunch of atomistic connections or lists stored in an inert memory bin. While knowledge of the list-type is achieved by copying (from the teacher, the textbook, one(cid:213)s neigh- bor, one(cid:213)s crib-notes, etc.), fabric knowledge comes from one(cid:213)s own actions(cid:209)actions on one(cid:213)s present knowledge or on one(cid:213)s environment. 1. The first purpose of Safari Search is to cause children to construct complex mathematical thinking, that is, to construct a fabric. The fabric here involves one of the most basic mathematical activities(cid:209)inference. In their interaction with the Safari games, children gather information and use that information to infer with logical certainty the whereabouts of llamas, cats, and various other animals on a 5 by 5 Safari array. Inference, widely ignored in the elementary school curriculum and often taught as a bunch of rote procedures at the sec- ondary level, is one of the most important aspects of mathematical thinking. Did I say mathematical? Is inference a math- only ability? Certainly not. It pervades all of knowledge. Note that no teaching takes place in Safari Search. But a lot of learning takes place. The learning is a result of children(cid:213)s actions(cid:209)their guesses and their hunches and the beginning bits of fabric they weave as they gain feedback and evolve primitive approaches into complex thought. Learning also takes place as children work with one another in interacting with Safari Search. Collaborative work (three children at a time, for example) is, by all means, to be encouraged. 2. The games range from very simple (in fact, random guessing) to very, very difficult. Each of the games calls for children to invent tactics to solve a problem. One major purpose of Safari Search is to provide an arena in which children invent and extend problem-solving tactics. 3. A third purpose of Safari Search is to call upon children to collect, organize, and use information. The Safari Search Grid (see 2 Safari Search I NTRODUCTION page 43) should be reproduced for the students in order to aid them in their data collection. Each of the games involves the collection of evidence, the judging of the importance of the information, the weaving of that information in with already- collected data, and the production of new information(cid:209)name- ly the conclusion that a Safari animal is in box such-and-such. 4. Safari Search is an arena in which children learn that their own thinking is important, that they are not mere memory bins, and that they are, in fact, capable of extremely complex mathematical invention. This is especially so of what I call (cid:210)doormat(cid:211) kids, those who have had very little success in school. Since school is often a matter of memory, many kids fail at what they see as meaningless, rote tasks. Given the chance to think rather than regurgitate, many children really soar for the first time! A major purpose of Safari Search is that players see themselves as able and inventive organizers of the complex, buzzing confusion that surrounds us all. 5. A fifth purpose of Safari Search is to enable children to work collaboratively with rich and powerful ideas and to enjoy themselves while doing so. The experience of generating, try- ing-out, and sharing ideas is an interesting and fruitful way to learn. That is(cid:209)dare I say it?(cid:209)a major purpose of Safari Search is to enable kids to have fun! Thomas C. O(cid:213)Brien Safari Search 3 I NTRODUCTION 4 Safari Search ~Installation~ Hardware and Software Requirements Make sure you have the following items: ¥ TI-GRAPH LINK“ computer-to-calculator cable. If you do not have a TI-GRAPH LINK cable, call your distributor, or order the cable on-line at the TI Accessory Store (www.ti.com/calc/docs/store.htm). ¥ Connecting TI-GRAPH LINK cable adapter, 9-pin to 25-pin, if needed. ¥ Computer with Windows¤ 3.1x or Windows¤ 95/98 installed. (A Windows NT¤ version will soon be available.) ¥ Safari Search software for the TI-73 on disk. ¥ A TI-73 calculator. Things to Check Before You Begin To make sure the batteries in your TI-73 are in good working con- dition, turn on your TI-73. If there is a low-battery message on the screen, turn the TI-73 off and follow the battery replacement pro- cedure in Appendix C of your TI-73 Guidebook. Before you load Safari Search to your TI-73, verify that sufficient IMPORTANT: free space exists in your application memory space by entering DO NOT interrupt the 2nd MEM, 3:Check APPs. The first line indicates the number of installation process. If free spaces available. Safari Search will take up two spaces in the any errors are encoun- memory. See the Memory is Full instructions in the tered during the installa- Troubleshooting Section for details about deleting applications. tion, follow the instructions. Error Recovery Installing Safari Search to a TI-73 instructions are also 1. Make sure the TI-GRAPH LINK cable is firmly connected to described in the the calculator and the computer and the calculator is at the Troubleshooting Section home screen. of this guide. 2. Start Windows and close all desktop applications that may be running (another running application could interfere while Safari Search is updating your TI-73). . TEACHER NOTE 3. Select Run from the File menu (Windows 3.1) or Run from the The TI-73 may briefly Start menu (Windows 95). In the Run dialog box, type display a (cid:210)Defrag- C:\directoryname\ti73safa.exe (where directoryname is the direc- menting(cid:211) message. This tory to which you saved the Safari Search file) and then click simply means the calcu- OK. lator is preparing for 4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. downloading. Safari Search 5 I NSTALLATION 6 Safari Search