0. INTRO SEQUENCE (hidden menu name: Welcome)

Norm and the bee's eyes are closed. zzzzzz comes from Norm. Bzzzzzzzz comes from Bee. . For the Kiosk versions, the yakback is there too. zzzzzzzz also comes from the yakback. When the child clicks anywhere, both open their eyes.

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Oh hi there! Welcome to the Michigan 4-H Children's Garden! I'm Dr. Norm, the Plant Scientist who takes care of the garden. My friend the Bee and I have noticed that some plants are not growing well. We need your expert help to find out what is wrong with these plants. 

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We are going to explore the garden and do some way-cool science! Ready?

Ia. SETUP SHOT (hidden menu name: Yakback) - for kiosk 

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First I want to see my expert helpers. Click this button to turn on my camera. 

The bee points to button on the Yakbak. We assume throughout that the Bee shows what to do.

Kids turn camera on.

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There you are! You are looking good! Let's get started.

The PDA comes onscreen. It is blank.

The bee holds up a picture of Norm.

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The big Dr. Norm out there is going to tell you what to do first. Then come back here and click on this arrow.

Ib. SETUP SHOT (hidden menu name: intro) - for web & kiosk without Norm in person

The PDA comes onscreen. It holds a picture of a whole plant with either aphids, chlorosis or powdery mildew. At least one leaf is close enough to see it in detail.

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Look! Here is a plant from the garden that is having problems. 

Will you help us identify the problem? Look really closely. Click on this arrow when you are ready to figure out what is wrong.

II. WHAT IS THE PLANT PROBLEM? (hidden menu name: Identification Questions)

Question 1 Screen: 

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First I'm going to ask you questions about the leaves. Are there any tiny bugs on the leaves? Click YES or NO. 

Bee flits by yes and no as Dr. Norm speaks them.

Child clicks on yes or no.   arrow shows up AFTER the first question has been answered. Back arrow appears AFTER the second question is displayed.

NO	m2n2o1.aif Good! Click the arrow to move on.
YES	m2n2o2.aif Aha! Click the arrow to move on.

Kid clicks arrow and moves to next question. If bugs on leaf then, go to how much covered question 3 screen below. If not, continue on to question 2.

Question 2 screen: 

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Plant leaves are usually green. What other color is your plant leaf? Is it white, black, yellow, or brown? Click on your answer.

Kid clicks on an answer.

WHITE	m2n4o1.aif Aha. Your plant problem looks like WHITE on the leaf. If you want to change your answer, just click on a different color. If you are ready to go on click on the arrow.
BLACK	m2n4o2.aif Oh ho. Your plant problem looks like BLACK on the leaf. If you want to change your answer, just click on a different color. If you are ready to go on click on the arrow.
YELLOW	m2n4o3.aif Ooooo. Your plant problem looks like YELLOW on the leaf. If you want to change your answer, just click on a different color. If you are ready to go on click on the arrow.
BROWN	m2n4o4.aif Very interesting. Your plant problem looks like BROWN on the leaf. If you want to change your answer, just click on a different color. If you are ready to go on click on the arrow.

Child clicks arrow and moves to next question. 

Question 3 screen: 

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How much of your leaf has the problem? Is it just on a little part of the leaf, on about half the leaf, or all over the leaf? 

[IF NO ANSWER THEN PROMPT:]
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Click on your answer.

Child clicks on answer.

m2n7o1.aif Yikes! Your plant problem is ALL OVER THE LEAF.

m2n7o2.aif Wow! Your plant problem is ON ABOUT HALF OF THE LEAF.

m2n7o3.aif Phew! Your plant problem is JUST ON A LITTLE PART OF THE LEAF.

[If kid DOES NOT CLICK on ARROW WITHIN 15 SECONDS THEN PROMPT:]

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If you want to change your answer, just click on a different answer. If you are ready to go on, click on the arrow.

Question 4 screen for KIOSK ONLY: 

PDA shows question mark. 

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If you can think of anything else to say about the leaf, you should record it for me. Click on this RECORD button and then tell me what other things you observe! When you are done, click the arrow to move on.

If kid clicks on Record, Norm says:

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We'll start recording when I say GO. Be ready to click STOP when you are done. Ready? GO!

After kid clicks STOP, Norm says:

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Click PLAY to hear what you recorded. Or click RECORD to erase what you said and start over. 

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Click the arrow when you are ready to move on.

Question Summary screen: 

The PDA shows a summary of answers to the two questions. 

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This is terrible!

m2n14o1.aif Your plant leaf is green with WHITE,

m2n14o2.aif Your plant leaf is green with BLACK,

m2n14o3.aif Your plant leaf is green with YELLOW,

m2n14o4.aif Your plant leaf is green with BROWN,

m2n14o5.aif Your plant leaf is has APHIDS,

 

m2n15o1.aif ALL OVER it.

m2n15o2.aif ON ABOUT HALF OF IT.

m2n15o3.aif ON PART OF IT.

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We have a problem. 

[If kid DOES NOT CLICK on ARROW WITHIN 15 SECONDS THEN PROMPT:]

this is a repeat of m2n12.aif -- no need to re-record.

When you are ready to go on, click on the arrow.

 

III. PICTURE IDENTIFICATION (hidden menu name: Identification Pictures

 

Leaf specimens appear in PDA, with labels below each leaf for Powdery Mildew, Iron Chlorosis, Aphids. A microscope the same size as Dr. Norm appears next to Norm. He leans against it.. 

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Now lets figure out what your plant problem is called. Look closely at each picture. Does it look like your leaf? When you find a leaf that looks like yours, click on the leaf.

Kid clicks on a leaf.

Powdery Mildew m3n2o1.aif	Well, I'd say you have found POWDERY MILDEW.  Click here to see POWDERY MILDEW through a microscope, or click the arrow to go on.
Iron Chlorosis m3n2o2.aif	Well, I'd say you have found IRON CHLOROSIS .  Click here to see IRON CHLOROSIS through a microscope, or click the arrow to go on.
Aphids m3n2o3.aif	Well, I'd say you have found APHIDS.  Click here to see APHIDS through a microscope, or click the arrow to go on.

Bee flies up to the eyepiece.

[If the kid clicks on MICROSCOPIC VIEW, THEN ZOOM SOUND PLAYS AND NORM SAYS:]

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Click on the picture to go back to life size.

[Loop repeats if they select other leaf.] 

User can click on other choices or click arrow button to go on. Prompt to click the arrow if they do not do so.

IV. EXPLANATION (hidden menu name: Identification Explanation)

 The plant disease they have chosen is displayed in the PDA.

Dr. Norm explains it:

Powdery Mildew m4n1o1.aif	Powdery Mildew is a plant disease that you see mostly on plant leaves. It doesn't look good. It can cause a plant to grow slowly and have fewer or smaller flowers. It makes it hard for plants to make enough food. It can also spread to other plants. There are lots of different plants in the garden that can get Powdery Mildew.
Iron Chlorosis m4n1o2.aif	Iron Chlorosis happens when the plant does not get enough iron. The plant dosn't look good, it doesn't grow or flower well and it cannot make as much food as it needs. This can happen to lots of different plants in the garden.
Aphids m4n1o3.aif	Aphids are insects that get their food from the plant. They can make a plant grow slowly, have almost no flowers or fruit and look bad. If there are lots of aphids they can even kill the plant. Aphids are a big problem on the vegetables in the garden.

After which, Norm says:

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When scientists make a discovery, they compare their findings to what other scientists have found. Click the Gallery button to see pictures and drawings of plant problems found by other famous scientists like you.

[If kid clicks on Forward arrow, skip Gallery and go on to VI.]

V. GALLERY (hidden menu name: Identification Gallery)

 

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See if they these drawings look like your plant problem. You can move UP and DOWN in the gallery to see other drawings.

Bee goes from UP DOWN arrows to FORWARD arrow.

 

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Click on THIS arrow when you are done with the gallery and are ready to continue.

VI. EXPLORING WHAT TO DO. (hidden menu name: Exploring What to Do)

Garden plot shows the problem in red in different parts of the garden. This is a static view of the current state of the problem, pretreatment.

[Dr. Norm looks worried!]

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What should we do? Could you please help us decide?

 

Powdery Mildew m6n2o1.aif	Those RED SPOTS show plants in the Children's Garden that could have Powdery Mildew.
Iron Chlorosis m6n2o2.aif	Those RED SPOTS show plants in the Children's Garden that could have Iron Choloris.
Aphids m6n2o3.aif	Those RED SPOTS show plants in the Children's Garden that could have Aphids.

Powdery Mildew m6n3o1.aif	There are four things we can do: We can DO NOTHING. We can SPRAY CHEMICALS. We can REMOVE THE PLANTS and throw them away. Or we can REPLACE THE PLANTS.
Iron Chlorosis use m6n3o1 again here	(same as above)
Aphids m6n3o3.aif	There are four things we can do: We can DO NOTHING. We can SPRAY CHEMICALS. We can REMOVE THE PLANTS and throw them away. Or we can use BIOLOGICAL CONTROL.

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Lets try one and see what happens. Click on the one you want to try first.

 

When one is picked, the four options remain along the side, but the chosen one is highlighted. A representation of the choice appears in the display area of the PDA -- could just be the icon, bigger.

Norm says:

	Powdery Mildew	Iron Chlorosis	Aphids
Do Nothing	m6n5o1.aif You picked DO NOTHING. So we will just let the plants go.	(same) m6n5o1.aif	(same) m6n5o1.aif
Spray Chemicals	m6n5o2.aif You picked SPRAY CHEMICALS. We will spray chemicals that are supposed to take care of this plant problem.	(same) m6n5o2.aif	(same) m6n5o2.aif
Remove the Plants	m6n5o3.aif You picked REMOVE PLANTS. So we will go through the garden and take out the plants that have the problem.	(same) m6n5o3.aif	(same) m6n5o3.aif
Replace the Plants	m6n5o4.aif You picked REPLACE THE PLANTS. So we will go through the garden and take out the plants that have the problem and replace them with ones that are not.	(same) m6n5o4.aif	(N/A)
Biological Control	(N/A)	(N/A)	m6n5o5.aif You picked BIOLOGICAL CONTROL. We will get ladybugs to put in the garden to eat the aphids.

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As a good scientist, you wonder what will happen to the other living things in the garden. Lets find out. Click on the plant, frog, human, butterfly, and dragon fly to find out what happens to each of them.

 

Clicking on each creature runs its animation and then the happy-sad--or neutral face bubbles in and Norm explains what happens.

	DO NOTHING	REMOVE PLANTS	SPRAY CHEMICALS	REPLACE PLANTS	BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
Plants	m6n7o1.aif It will be BAD for plants because they won't look good or grow well and some will die.	m6n7o2.aif It will be BAD for plants with the plant problem because they will get pulled out and put into the compost pile.	m6n7o3.aif It will be GOOD for plants because the the plant problem will be controlled and the plants will look good all summer.	m6n7o4.aif It will be GOOD for plants because we will plant new ones that won't get the plant problem.	? m6n7o5.aif
Frogs	m6n8o1.aif It will be neither GOOD nor BAD for frogs because they will still have shelter and food.	m6n8o2.aif It will be BAD for frogs because they will lose some shelter and food.	m6n8o3.aif It will be BAD for frogs because the chemicals could make them sick and they might die.	m6n8o4.aif It will be GOOD for frogs because the new plants will provide good shelter and food.	? m6n8o5.aif
People	m6n9o1.aif It will be neither GOOD nor BAD for people because even though the plants with the plant problem won't look good, there are so many plants and colors people probably won't notice.	m6n9o2.aif It will be BAD for people because the garden won't look as good because there will be blank places where plants were pulled out.	m6n9o3.aif It will be GOOD for people because the plants will look good all summer, but it will also be BAD for people because the chemicals could make them sick.	m6n9o4.aif It will be GOOD for people because the new plants will look good all summer, but it will be BAD for people because the new plants will be small and won't flower for a few weeks.	? m6n9o5.aif
Butterflies	m6n10o1.aif It will be neither GOOD nor BAD for butterflies because there will still be lots of other plants for food.	m6n10o2.aif It will be BAD for butterflies because some of their food plants will be gone.	m6n10o3.aif It will be BAD for butterflies because the chemicals will make them sick and many will die.	m6n10o4.aif It will be GOOD for butterflies because the new plants will provide food all summer long.	? m6n10o5.aif
Dragonflies	m6n11o1.aif It will be neither GOOD nor BAD for dragonflies because there will still be lots of other plants for food and shelter.	m6n11o2.aif It will be BAD for dragonflies because some of their food and shelter will be gone.	m6n11o3.aif It will be BAD for dragonflies because the chemicals could make them sick and they could die.	m6n11o4.aif It will be GOOD for dragonflies because the new plants will provide food and shelter all summer long.	? m6n11o5.aif

Loop continues for each living thing. After the last one is clicked, Norm says: 

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Wow, that was great. It's a lot of work to think about everything in the garden. 

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Are you ready for some more exploring? Try a different Treatment, and see how it affects the rest of the garden. When you are done, click on the arrow.

Loop repeats. 

VII.. DECIDING WHAT TO DO. (hidden menu name: Deciding What to Do)

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Fantastic! That was some great scientific discovery. You looked carefully at what each treatment will do. But I still need your help to decide what to do for the garden.

Grid, now with all four treatments shown at once, appears in PDA.

Powdery Mildew m7n2o1.aif	This grid will help you decide which treatment is best for Powdery Mildew. Here are the four treatments, DO NOTHING, SPRAY CHEMICALS, REMOVE PLANTS and REPLACE PLANTS. [options hilights while he talks.]
Iron Chlorosis m7n2o2.aif	This grid will help you decide which treatment is best for Iron Chlorosis. Here are the four treatments, DO NOTHING, SPRAY CHEMICALS, REMOVE PLANTS and REPLACE PLANTS. [options hilights while he talks.]
Aphids m7n2o3.aif	This grid will help you decide which treatment is best for Aphids. Here are the four treatments, DO NOTHING, SPRAY CHEMICALS, REMOVE PLANTS and USE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL. [options hilights while he talks.]

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And here are the living things in the garden, PLANTS, FROGS, HUMANS, BUTTERFLIES and DRAGON FLIES. [options hilights while he talks.]

This is an interactive grid to help kids explore and understand what the grid represents. Clicking on a treatment row causes the treatment icon to light and up a sound effect to play (happy, neutral, sad) as each creature lights up and its (happy-sad-neutral) face flashes, sequentially. Clicking on a column does the same thing going down. Clicking on a cell causes just that cell to flash, and its sound to play, as both treatment and creature lights up.

Norm explains how the grid works while the bee moves around to point and "click" on choices:

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This Happy Face means that SPRAY CHEMICALS is good for plants! [face hilights while he talks.]

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This Sad Face means that REMOVE PLANTS is bad for dragonflies. [face hilights while he talks.]

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Click on a creatures to see what happens to the creature for each treatment. [Bee click on frog to demonstrate. After Frog is clicked on and the frog colume animates.]

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Click on a treatment to see what happens to each creature for that treatment. [Bee click on remove plant to demonstrate. After remove plant is clicked on and the remove plant row animates.]

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You can explore the grid for as long as you want. If you want me to ask you some questions, click the question mark! 

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When you're ready to decide what we should do, click on the arrow.

Random questions if the question mark is clicked on:

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Which treatments are good for the garden? 

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Which treatments are good for the plant?

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Which treatments are bad for people?

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Which treatments are bad for dragonflies?

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Which treatments make frogs happy?

VIII. The Final Choice

The grid disappears except for the four treatment choices and an overhead map of the garden with the red affected areas.

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OK, my scientist friends, what should we do to save the garden today? Click on what you want to do, and then click on the arrow.

After the child picks a treatment, map begins to animate to display the chosen treatment.

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The red areas are problems.

Watch what happens to the garden when you... 

m8n3o1.aif DO NOTHING

m8n3o2.aif SPRAY CHEMICALS

m8n3o3.aif REMOVE PLANTS

m8n3o4.aif REPLACE PLANTS

m8n3o5.aif USE BIOLOGICAL CONTROLS

 

 

Do Nothing	AREAS GET BIGGER.
Spray Chemicals	AREAS CHANGE FROM RED TO SHADES OF GREEN (OR SOME/MOST TURN GREEN)
Remove the Plants	AREAS CHANGE FROM RED TO BROWN.
Replace the Plants	???
Biological Control	RED AREAS TURN BROWN AND THEN SOME TURN GREEN

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Do the problems get bigger or smaller? You can click on your treatment choice button to see the map changing again. Or click on the arrow and I will explain what just happened to the garden.

Norm Explains:

	Powdery Mildew	Iron Chlorosis	Aphids
Do Nothing	m8n4o1.aif When we DO NOTHING: It will be both GOOD and BAD for the whole garden. It will be good because DOING NOTHING is what would happen in nature and doesn't really affect the frogs, butterflies or dragonflies. But it will be BAD because some plants in the garden won't look good and the disease could spread to other plants.	(same?)	(same?)
Spray Chemicals	m8n4o2.aif When we SPRAY CHEMICALS: It will be both GOOD and BAD for the whole garden. It will be good because the diseased plants will grow well and look better. But it will be BAD because the chemicals could hurt frogs, people, butterflies and dragonflies.	(same?)	(same?)
Remove the Plants	m8n4o3.aif When we REMOVE PLANTS: It will be both GOOD and BAD for the whole garden. It will be GOOD because diseased plants will be gone. But it will be BAD because plants that provide food and shelter for frogs, butterflies and dragonflies will be gone. There will also be blank spots where the plants were taken out so the garden won't look good.	(same?)	(same?)
Replace the Plants	m8n4o4.aif When we REPLACE PLANTS: It will be both GOOD and BAD for the whole garden. It will be GOOD because we will replaced the diseased plants with plants without the disease and so they will look good and provide lots of good food and shelter for frogs, butterflies and dragonflies. It will be BAD because for a little while the garden will have small plants that won't be flowering.	(same?)	(N/A)
Biological Control	(N/A)	(N/A)	m8n4o5.aif ????

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Click on the arrow to prepare a scientific report.

IX. Final Report. (hidden menu name: Report) 

Scene changes to the onscreen report. Onscreen Report visuals are noted first, followed by the dialog at the bottom of the report content section.

 

Scientist(s): 

(photo goes here)

 

Date and time: OCTOBER 26, 1998

 

Here is the report of your way-cool science exploration:

You asked a question: What is wrong with these plant leaves?

You looked carefully at the leaves and the photo gallery to find out what the problem looked like and what its' name was (research).

 

Powdery Mildew	You found Powdery Mildew!
Iron Chlorosis	You found Iron Chlorosis!
Aphids	You found Aphids!

 

You did an experiment to find out what to do for the problem.  You decided what was the best thing to do for the problem. 

FOR POWDERY MILDEW:

Do Nothing m9n6o1.aif	DO NOTHING is a good choice because we are really busy in the garden and don't really have time to do more work. But, the plants with POWDERY MILDEW aren't going to look so good and some may even die.
Spray Chemicals m9n6o2.aif	SPRAY CHEMICALS is a good choice because it should take care of the POWDERY MILDREW and our plants will grow big and look really good. But, spraying chemicals can hurt other living creatures so we will have to be very careful if we spray.
Remove the Plants m9n6o3.aif	REMOVE THE PLANTS is a good choice because we will be able to get rid of the POWDERY MILDEW. But, it is going to take a lot of time and the garden won't look as good because there will be bare spots where the plants were pulled out.
Replace the Plants m9n6o4.aif	REPLACE THE PLANTS is a good choice because we will be able to get rid of the POWDERY MILDEW. But, it is going to take some time for the new plants to grow.

OR, for IRON CHLOROSIS:

Do Nothing m9n6o5.aif	DO NOTHING is a good choice because we are really busy in the garden and don't really have time to do more work. But, the plants with IRON CHLOROSIS aren't going to look so good and some may even die.
Spray Chemicals m9n6o6.aif	SPRAY CHEMICALS is a good choice because it should take care of the IRON CHLOROSIS and our plants will grow big and look really good. But, spraying chemicals can hurt other living creatures so we will have to be very careful if we spray.
Remove the Plants m9n6o7.aif	REMOVE THE PLANTS is a good choice because we will be able to get rid of the IRON CHLOROSIS . But, it is going to take a lot of time and the garden won't look as good because there will be bare spots where the plants were pulled out.
Replace the Plants m9n6o8.aif	REPLACE THE PLANTS is a good choice because we will be able to get rid of the IRON CHLOROSIS . But, it is going to take some time for the new plants to grow.

OR, for APHIDS,

Do Nothing m9n6o9.aif	DO NOTHING is a good choice because we are really busy in the garden and don't really have time to do more work. But, the plants with APHIDS aren't going to look so good and some may even die.
Spray Chemicals m9n6o10.aif	SPRAY CHEMICALS is a good choice because it should take care of the APHIDS and our plants will grow big and look really good. But, spraying chemicals can hurt other living creatures so we will have to be very careful if we spray.
Remove the Plants m9n6o11.aif	REMOVE THE PLANTS is a good choice because we will be able to get rid of the APHIDS. But, it is going to take a lot of time and the garden won't look as good because there will be bare spots where the plants were pulled out.
Biological Control m9n6o12.aif	BIOLOGICAL CONTROL is a good choice because we will be able to control the aphids using ladybugs. But it will take a little while to get the ladybugs into the garden so the plants may look bad for a little while.

 

Here's the dialog for this screen.

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GREAT WORK scientist! 

[For Kiosk Only:]

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Let's take a picture of you to place on the report!
Smile for the camera, and then CLICK RIGHT HERE!

[Kiosk waits for click, then picture appears where it belongs in the report.]

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You have done some great science discovery. First you asked a question: What is wrong with plants in the garden? Next you discovered the answer -

Powdery Mildew	m9n4o1.aif they have POWDERY MILDEW.
Iron Chlorosis	m9n4o2.aif they have IRON CHLOROSIS.
Aphids	m9n4o3.aif they are covered with APHIDS.

 

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Then you carefully looked at what could be done to take care of the problem. Finally you picked one treatment that you thought was the best:

m8n3o1.aif -- note -- reused from menu 8 announces. DO NOTHING

m8n3o2.aif SPRAY CHEMICALS

m8n3o3.aif REMOVE PLANTS

m8n3o4.aif REPLACE PLANTS

m8n3o5.aif USE BIOLOGICAL CONTROLS

 

[insert explanation here as appears in the report.](see previous area for announces and numbering scheme, beginning with m9n6o1.aif)

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Thank you for all your hard work. It was a pleasure to work with you. I hope you will come back and help me again sometime.

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Have a good day and - Always ask lots of questions!

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Click the PRINT Report button to print out a report that you can take away with you.

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Bye!!!!!

 

IX. Printing Report. (hidden menu name: print) 

Screen says "REPORT IS PRINTING."

Report will include details from above, plus the following:

1. Questions:
   1. Can you explain why this is the best thing to do for the problem?
   2. What is one new question that you have about plant problems? 
   3. If you want to draw a picture of your plant problem and sent it to Dr. Norm, we can put it with the other drawings by famous scientists!

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