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How to Make Your Own GeoSafari

The GeoSafari Laptop by Educational Insights is a quiz toy for children in preschool through second grade. Cards inserted into the laptop show an image with a question, then several possible answers listed along each side with corresponding buttons. The child pushes the button corresponding with the correct answer to earn points. Expansion cards are available for children in higher grades, but no expansion set can cover exactly what your child is learning in school or address a specific skill. You can make customized GeoSafari cards to help your child review vocabulary or spelling words, math facts, or any other information they need to memorize.

Things You'll Need

  • Cardstock
  • Drawing supplies or cut out picture and glue
  • Pen
  • GeoSafari Laptop instruction manual
  • GeoSafari Laptop
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Instructions

    • 1

      Gather questions and answers. The GeoSafari Laptop is designed to handle cards with 10, 12, 14, 16, 20 or 26 questions. If your set of information includes 15 questions, for example, you can either drop one question from the set to fit the 14 question setting or add a bonus question to fit the information into the 16 question setting.

    • 2

      Cut a piece of cardstock to fit the laptop. Trace around one of the premade cards that came with the game as a guide.

    • 3

      In the center of your card, draw or glue an image that corresponds to the information on the card. For example, if you are making a card to drill state capitals, you may want to use a map as a visual guide. Number the states you will be quizzing on this card.

    • 4

      In the instruction manual that came with your GeoSafari Laptop, there is a chart that tells you which button corresponds to each light in each mode. Using the chart as a guide, write the answers on the sides of the card so they line up with the lights on the GeoSafari Laptop. For example, if you are making a card to drill state capitals, in the previous step you numbered the states. On the sides of the card, you would write the capitals that correspond to the numbered states.

    • 5

      Write the code for the type of quiz In a corner of the card. You can find codes for matching answers quizzes as well as multiple choice with two or four options in the manual that came with your GeoSafari laptop. You will enter this code into the GeoSafari Laptop when you insert your card. The code tells the machine how to interpret your child's answers.


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