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Episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Discusses food supply and inequalities of distribution around the world and the role of agricultural technologies.
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.
Lesson 4 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Amigos. The goals of this series, in order of priority, are: To expose children to basic Spanish; to introduce children to Hispanic culture; to create an interest in the geography of countries where Spanish is the primary language; to reinforce skills and concepts taught in the regular elementary school curricula.
Episode 14 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from Denmark about ordinary people, including the schoolteacher, who are reduced to speaking nonsense after touching a magic stone. Includes music and sound effects combined with illustrations by Rae Owings.
Episode 7 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Watch Your Language. Uses on-camera narration and a dramatic episode to teach new vocabulary and word analysis skills. In this episode Al, Beth, and Carl decipher the specialized terms associated with filmmaking in order to prepare their entry for a local film festival. They also discover that different characters need different vocabularies to sound right.
Episode 20 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child gets caught in the problem that does not come out successfully, but experience proves the best teacher. Capsizing the information taught in each program is a cartoon sequence. These cartoons provide previews of what follows from a live-action sequence. The content of It Figures was developed by a consortium of 31 state and provincial education agencies. Managing the project were Ed Cohen and the late Larry Walcoff. Individual programs were produced by Larry Wood Productions (in the facilities of KLVX in Las Vegas), the Illinois State Board of Education, New Jersey Network (NJN), KLCS in Los Angeles, Maryland Instructional Television and South Carolina ETV.
Episode 19 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child gets caught in the problem that does not come out successfully, but experience proves the best teacher. Capsizing the information taught in each program is a cartoon sequence. These cartoons provide previews of what follows from a live-action sequence. The content of It Figures was developed by a consortium of 31 state and provincial education agencies. Managing the project were Ed Cohen and the late Larry Walcoff. Individual programs were produced by Larry Wood Productions (in the facilities of KLVX in Las Vegas), the Illinois State Board of Education, New Jersey Network (NJN), KLCS in Los Angeles, Maryland Instructional Television and South Carolina ETV.
Episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Drawing with Paul Ringler. This program demonstrates how an artist determines the height of a person or an object in relation to the known height of another object in a perspective drawing.
From the series Wordsmith. This popular series is based on contemporary concepts of vocabulary and linguistic theory. Each program centers on a themes like food, size, or communication. But from then on, anything goes--word cells cavort about to instruct and entertain, animated characters get their words in edgewise, word lore of all kinds lights up the nooks and crannies of the English language. Designed to arouse students curiosity about words and to sharpen their awareness of language, the series includes standard vocabulary development and incorporates terms from specialized vocabularies, foreign languages, and slang.
Bob Smith, wordsmith and author of the teacher's guide, has taught English, philosophy, psychology, education, Latin, and mathematics at levels from the seventh grade to post graduate study. His television work began in 1962. Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago, and three advanced degrees in philosophy and linguistics from Gonzaga University and the University of Michigan.
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.
Episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Watch Your Language. Uses on-camera narration and a dramatic episode to teach new vocabulary and word analysis skills. In this episode J.J. is ready to quit the team after the coach says that J.J. isn't stretching himself. J.J.'s friend, Al, understands the coach's words to have a different meaning.
Episode 3 of Your Choice Our Chance, a series of drug abuse prevention programs to be viewed by students and community members in an effort to educate and prevent the use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs before preteens start. The program targets children in the vulnerable pre-adolescent years, incorporating proven prevention strategies recommended by leading health educators. The school component focuses on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors that influence drug use. The programs are designed to help students develop personal and social skills, learn to make decisions, and improve their self - concept. Dramatic episodes feature target-age students in realistic school, family, and peer group situations. The programs feature a variety of socioeconomic levels, family structures, and racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Episode 14 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Watch Your Language. Uses on-camera narration and a dramatic episode to teach new vocabulary and word analysis skills. In this episode the editor of the school paper rejects Carl's humorous article on menu language in favor of Beth's story about a friend's death from anorexia nervosa.
From the series Wordsmith. This popular series is based on contemporary concepts of vocabulary and linguistic theory. Each program centers on a themes like food, size, or communication. But from then on, anything goes--word cells cavort about to instruct and entertain, animated characters get their words in edgewise, word lore of all kinds lights up the nooks and crannies of the English language. Designed to arouse students curiosity about words and to sharpen their awareness of language, the series includes standard vocabulary development and incorporates terms from specialized vocabularies, foreign languages, and slang.
Bob Smith, wordsmith and author of the teacher's guide, has taught English, philosophy, psychology, education, Latin, and mathematics at levels from the seventh grade to post graduate study. His television work began in 1962. Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago, and three advanced degrees in philosophy and linguistics from Gonzaga University and the University of Michigan.
Unit 1 of the Agency for Instructional Technology series Principles of Technology. Examines the principles behind force in six modules: an overview, force in mechanical systems, pressure in fluid systems, voltage in electrical systems, temperature in thermal systems, and a summary.
Unit 7 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Principles of Technology. Examines the physics of force transformers as applied in mechanical, fluid and electrical systems.
From the series Wordsmith. This popular series is based on contemporary concepts of vocabulary and linguistic theory. Each program centers on a themes like food, size, or communication. But from then on, anything goes--word cells cavort about to instruct and entertain, animated characters get their words in edgewise, word lore of all kinds lights up the nooks and crannies of the English language. Designed to arouse students curiosity about words and to sharpen their awareness of language, the series includes standard vocabulary development and incorporates terms from specialized vocabularies, foreign languages, and slang.
Bob Smith, wordsmith and author of the teacher's guide, has taught English, philosophy, psychology, education, Latin, and mathematics at levels from the seventh grade to post graduate study. His television work began in 1962. Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago, and three advanced degrees in philosophy and linguistics from Gonzaga University and the University of Michigan.
Lesson 11 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute programs emphasizes the application of math skills and problem solving strategies. I features dramatic vignettes involving fifth graders solving math problems that relate to their everyday lives and documentary-style illustrations of people who use math as a normal part of their profession.
Lesson 20 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute programs emphasizes the application of math skills and problem solving strategies. I features dramatic vignettes involving fifth graders solving math problems that relate to their everyday lives and documentary-style illustrations of people who use math as a normal part of their profession.
Episode 7 from Solve It a series produced by the Agency for Instructional Technology that focuses on teaching everyday mathematical skills. In each episode young hosts introduce and interpret dramas in which children must perform real-life mathematics problems, and documentary segments show adults who apply the same skills on the job. Teaches specific problem-solving strategies.
Episode 13 from Solve It a series produced by the Agency for Instructional Technology that focuses on teaching everyday mathematical skills. In each episode young hosts introduce and interpret dramas in which children must perform real-life mathematics problems, and documentary segments show adults who apply the same skills on the job. Teaches specific problem-solving strategies.
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.
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.
Episode 16 from Solve It a series produced by the Agency for Instructional Technology that focuses on teaching everyday mathematical skills. In each episode young hosts introduce and interpret dramas in which children must perform real-life mathematics problems, and documentary segments show adults who apply the same skills on the job. Teaches specific problem-solving strategies.
Episode 9 from Solve It a series produced by the Agency for Instructional Technology that focuses on teaching everyday mathematical skills. In each episode young hosts introduce and interpret dramas in which children must perform real-life mathematics problems, and documentary segments show adults who apply the same skills on the job. Teaches specific problem-solving strategies.
Lesson 5 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute programs emphasizes the application of math skills and problem solving strategies. I features dramatic vignettes involving fifth graders solving math problems that relate to their everyday lives and documentary-style illustrations of people who use math as a normal part of their profession.
Lesson 13 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute programs emphasizes the application of math skills and problem solving strategies. I features dramatic vignettes involving fifth graders solving math problems that relate to their everyday lives and documentary-style illustrations of people who use math as a normal part of their profession.
Episode 4 from the series Self Incorporated, a 15-program television/film series. Self Incorporated is designed to stimulate classroom discussion of critical issues and problems of early adolescence. It aims at helping 11- to 13-year-olds cope with the physical, social, and emotional changes they are experiencing. Self Incorporated was created under the management of the Agency for Instructional Television through the resources of a consortium of 42 state and provincial educational and broadcasting agencies, with additional assistance from Exxon Corporation.
Episode 13 of the Agency for Instructional Television Series All About You, an elementary course in health education designed for children to help them understand basic human anatomy, physiology, and psychology.
Episode 28 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Images and Things. Considers ways in which people communicate, examining some of the media of communications and the artistic forms used to transmit various kinds of messages.
Episode 7 from the AIT series On the Level. The series is designed to help young people understand what is happening to them as they grow up and to encourage their active participation in the hard work of adolescence-reaching maturity through social and personal growth. The twelve programs dramatize common teenage concerns like love, stress, conflict. and changing relationships with family and friends. The problem situations stimulate reflection and discussion about alternative courses of action for different individuals: the many approaches to problems, the many solutions.
Episode 4 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and special visuals, the series considers fundamental economic problems relevant to everyday life. In its first year, Trade-offs was used by approximately 500,000 students and their teachers in about 25.000 fifth and sixth grade classrooms. This more than quadrupled the amount of teaching of economics as a subject. Trade-offs was produced under the direction of AIT by the Educational Film Center (North Spring-field. Virginia), The Ontario Educational Communications Authority, and public television station KERA, Dallas. Programs were available on film, videocassette, and broadcast videotape. Trade-offs was developed cooperatively by the Joint Council on Economic Education, the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education, the Agency for Instructional Television, and a consortium fifty-three state and provincial education and broadcasting agencies.
Episode 11 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces the story by Sheila Greenwald about a young girl who plays the violin badly, but becomes famous when her uncle writes about her in his book. People treat her like a celebrity and even schedule a recital. Designed to encourage students to read the book.
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.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
Episode 6 of Your Choice Our Chance, a series of drug abuse prevention programs to be viewed by students and community members in an effort to educate and prevent the use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs before preteens start. The program targets children in the vulnerable pre-adolescent years, incorporating proven prevention strategies recommended by leading health educators. The school component focuses on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors that influence drug use. The programs are designed to help students develop personal and social skills, learn to make decisions, and improve their self - concept. Dramatic episodes feature target-age students in realistic school, family, and peer group situations. The programs feature a variety of socioeconomic levels, family structures, and racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Episode 12 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces the story by Joyce Rockwood about a Cherokee boy, who goes alone to rescue his unusual mare, Midnight, from the Cherokees who stole her. Designed to encourage students to read the book.
Episode 14 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Images and Things. Explores the interaction of people as a source of imagery for artists, showing how artists capture and preserve the varying moods of small and large groups of people.
Episode 12 from the AIT series Teletales. In the first story Mr. Lally tells a Spanish tale about a strange chicken whose selfishness and impatience brings him to an ignominious end atop the tallest tower in Madrid. In the second story Paul Lally tells a tale from Norway about a proud and stubborn squire who gets a surprise on his wedding day when his bride-to-be turns out to be a horse. Includes music and sound effects combined with illustrations by Rae Owings.
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.
Episode 16 of the Agency for Instructional Television Series All About You, an elementary course in health education designed for children to help them understand basic human anatomy, physiology, and psychology.
Episode 59 of Thinkabout, a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and reinforcing their language arts, mathematics and study skills. The series is broken up into thirteen themes: Finding Alternative, Estimating & Approximating, Giving & Getting Meaning, Collecting Information, Finding Patterns, Generalizing, Sequence and Scheduling, Using Criteria, Reshaping Information, Judging Information, Communicating Effectively and Solving Problems.
Episode 4 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from Germany about two hungry, helpless children who use their wits to defeat a nearsighted witch. Includes music and sound effects combined with illustrations by Rae Owings.
Episode 3 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces the story about a junior girl detective who investigates the mysterious noises that are coming from the apartment next door. Designed to encourage students to read the book.
Part of a series of fifteen programs called Well, Well, Well that focuses on health and wellness for children in kindergarten and the primary grades. Hosted by Slim Goodbody (John Burstein).
Episode 15 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and special visuals, the series considers fundamental economic problems relevant to everyday life. In its first year, Trade-offs was used by approximately 500,000 students and their teachers in about 25.000 fifth and sixth grade classrooms. This more than quadrupled the amount of teaching of economics as a subject. Trade-offs was produced under the direction of AIT by the Educational Film Center (North Spring-field. Virginia), The Ontario Educational Communications Authority, and public television station KERA, Dallas. Programs were available on film, videocassette, and broadcast videotape. Trade-offs was developed cooperatively by the Joint Council on Economic Education, the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education, the Agency for Instructional Television, and a consortium fifty-three state and provincial education and broadcasting agencies.
Episode 4 in the sub series "Essential Elements" from the program Every Child Can Succeed. If faculty expectations are low, student achievement can never be high. This program documents the powerful impact of high expectations on student mastery of basic and higher-level skills. The supportive effect of a positive school culture, the use of monitoring as a medium to communicate a school's insistence on academic excellence, and a dedication on the part of educators to develop challenging instruction are emphasized.
Episode 11 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Images and Things. Reflects on the relationships between expressive architectural design and religious philosophies and liturgies in a survey of a variety of structures that have been designed as houses of worship.
Episode 12 from the Agency for Instructional Television series In Other Words. In this television program focusing on communication skills, host Stephanie Edwards provides on-camera commentary for stories concerning the need for specific, positive, and tactful criticism of students' writing efforts. A nondramatic segment presents fiction writer Tom Bethencourt, who comments on constructive criticism.
Episode 8 from the Agency for Instructional Television series In Other Words. In this television program focusing on communication skills, host Stephanie Edwards provides on-camera commentary for stories concerning attention-getting visual techniques for an oral class report and for a speech at an assembly. A nondramatic segment presents television producer Kerry Cummings, who demonstrates the importance of eye-catching visual effects and split-second timing in television spots.
Episode 13 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and special visuals, the series considers fundamental economic problems relevant to everyday life. In its first year, Trade-offs was used by approximately 500,000 students and their teachers in about 25.000 fifth and sixth grade classrooms. This more than quadrupled the amount of teaching of economics as a subject. Trade-offs was produced under the direction of AIT by the Educational Film Center (North Spring-field. Virginia), The Ontario Educational Communications Authority, and public television station KERA, Dallas. Programs were available on film, videocassette, and broadcast videotape. Trade-offs was developed cooperatively by the Joint Council on Economic Education, the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education, the Agency for Instructional Television, and a consortium fifty-three state and provincial education and broadcasting agencies.
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.
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.
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.
Points out some of the key areas that the layman may overlook if he's new to the sport of soccer. Interviews fans who tell why they have been "turned-on" to soccer. Includes a glossery of soccer terms.
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.
Episode 2 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, analyzing, interpreting, experimenting and communicating the results.
Episode 7 from Bread and Butterflies, a project in career development for nine-to-twelve-year-olds. Based on two years of planning by educators and broadcasters, the project included 15-minute color television programs, a comprehensive Curriculum Guide, and in-service teacher's program, and international program, and workshop materials. Bread and Butterflies was created under the supervision of the Agency for Instructional Television, through the resources of a consortium of thirty-four educational and broadcasting agencies with assistance from Exxon Corporation.
Program 1 of Looking From The Inside/Out series explores the emotion of confusion and shows how effective communication skills can alleviate confusion.
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.
Program 15 of Looking From The Inside/Out series defines determination as a feeling of having a firm purpose or goal we mean to accomplish, no matter what. Provides examples of goal-setting and demonstrates the value of determination. Teaches how to set and achieve positive goals through the use of a five-step process.
