1001. Feeling Spaces (15:54)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. As Andrew and Susie bound over a broad meadow and explore a great cathedral, they begin to understand how different spaces influence their feelings. In the cathedral crossing Susie wishes she were a bird able to swoop through the color washed sunlight. An-drew sniffs adventure in a dark stone spiral staircase, where Susie feels fear. Together the children feel the power of a long narrow space that makes them want to run, and they also discover the uneasy feeling of a mysterious kind of space.

1002. Fire! (15:30)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. A rookie fire fighter learns about handling a pumper and hose with models in a training class. He advances to a real drill with real equipment and real teamwork. Suddenly his company is called to a fire. All their practice helps them meet the crisis of a hose break at the fire. The rookie succeeds as part of the team.

1003. Friends (15:11)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Children in a kindergarten classroom de-scribe "being friends" in terms of their own experiences at school laughing together,talking on the phone, helping somebody with a hard job, teaching somebody something that he wants to know. They also think about not being friends and the way it feels when somebody's "just plain mean." How to make a new friend, whether one always needs a friend to have fun, and whether grown-ups can be friends are other ideas explored.

1004. Going to the Hospital (16:17)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Chris tumbles headlong from a tree and rides to the hospital in an ambulance. As he is examined, X-rayed, wrapped in a plaster leg cast, and fitted with a hospital bracelet, he gets the information he needs to cope with the dramatic change in his life from the efficient adults around him. Continued in Overnight in the Hospital.

1005. Hands (15:19)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. A horse's hard hoof, a cat's skillful claw, a bear's heavy padded paw and the hand of man are shown to be similar in some way.But a man's hand is shown to be different in a very important way the way he can use his thumb. An x-ray view of hand bones shows the basis for man's flexibility of movement. Pictures of many hands appear to make things man needs to live,to make things beautiful to see and hear, and to do things children need and want to do. Finally,in a classroom participation game, hands"talk" without a word.

1006. How Did I Get To Be Me? (15:18)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Six-year-old Tony wonders if he would be the same or different if he lived somewhere else and in a different family. What if he lived in a crowded city? How about a farm? Would he be a different Tony? As he thinks, he goes about his busy day trying to make things happen in his own life. He tries to play with people who let him and some who don't,tries to make people happy and mad, tries todo something that demands courage and determination. All the time he is getting to be Tony.

1007. How Do You Know? (15:01)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. A NASA physicist relates the lives and thoughts of children to the thinking processes of professional scientists. He asks whether children would rather eat a coat or an apple? Would they rather put on pairs of roller skates or coats to keep warm? How do they know? And then he shows how people use past experiences to build pictures that help them predict future events. He also shows how children learn to predict through other people's experiences and even how they can use mind pictures to understand things that cannot be seen at all. Finally, the scientist suggests reasons why scientific thinking is useful for a child with a problem and for grownups who want to solve the problems of the world.

1008. How It Used To Be (14:54)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Older ways of doing things are celebrated at an annual folk festival where people share traditions with each other and with thou-sands of visitors who come to see the way things used to be. The blacksmith hammers and bends tools from glowing iron; sheep-herders gather and hand-shear their sheep.Potters shape graceful dishes from formless clay mounds. Old-fashioned toys are recalled by woodcarvers, arid by men and women who turn dried apples and corncobs into dolls.

1009. How Will I Grow? (15:02)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Children talk about what it means to be a boy or girl now and what they think it will mean when they grow up. They consider family roles and occupations, and find some disagreement in their points of view. Are certain jobs only for men or only for women?Can a father take care of a baby the same way a mother can? The program suggests a variety of answers to these and other questions about male and female roles in contemporary life.

1010. I Found It (15:52)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Susie, Laura, Jennifer and Yvonne, out for aSaturday walk,are invited by an artist neighbor to visit her "secret tower" studio.They are surprised to find beautiful art objects made from materials the artist saved or found accidentally. The children set out themselves to find useful "junk" for their own creations. After an unusual walk, the girls return to the studio to create fresh new faces from what would seem to be stale old materials.