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.

1011. Lost (14:56)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Andy and his big sister Hilary wander through the zoo on a warm spring day. They stop to visit birds, bears and other beasts. WhenHilary stops to talk to a friend, Andy continues down the path unaware that she is not behind him. Lost! Andy rushes through the Sunday crowd in a frightened panic searching in a sea of legs for his protector.Exhausted and unsuccessful, he pauses and begins to think his way out of his problem.

1012. Millions of Pies (15:01)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Paring apples and baking crusty turnovers for the family is something many mothers like to do. But how do you make apple pies for hundreds of people who want to eat at the same time in a cafeteria..? Machines do most of the work. A special machine. for each small special job cutting, mixing, shaping.rolling and filling illustrates specialization in automation. Mother does all these jobs herself.

1013. Movement (15:30)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Children at play, workers on the job. an athlete in training, and a dancer in motion use similar movements for different activities.They express the energy, beauty and excitement of human movement. They run, walk,balance. leap and stretch. They bend, twist,turn, swing and pull. They jump, lean, push.twirl and rock. They move!

1014. Out To The Moon (15:19)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. This program is paired with GOING HOME TO EARTH. John Bannister of NASA brings a real space suit and a small rocket model to a classroom where children are making and using their own equipment for dramatic play about going to the moon. NASA films, simulation and models help explain in simple terms such fascinating things as survival needs(food, water, air), rocket stages, weightless-ness and moon landing.

1015. Overnight at the Hospital (16:14)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
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Summary:
From the series Ripples. Chris survives separation from his parents and endures a lonely night in a hospital bed in this continuation of Going to the Hospital. He meets other hospitalized children, learns to swallow a pill and likes a visit from his dad that includes a present. It's not so much fun when parents go home, the lights go out, the nurse is gone, and the other kids are asleep; but Chris figures out a way to get company that will help him fall asleep.

1016. People Make Music (15:42)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. A young folksinger. accompanied by his own guitar. banjo and auto harp. sings and talks about the songs that his great-grand father sang on a mountain farm in North Carolina.His old-time songs about animals. hunting,babies, games. joy and sadness, followed bya moment of contemporary rock and roll music, illustrate how music springs from the activities and feelings of people. Related mountain scenes expand the musical journey.

1017. Playing Where You Are (14:48)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. It's wintertime in the U.S. and Canada, and children are playing everywhere. While children in the north streak down snowy hills on sleds and skis, youngsters along the Southern Atlantic Coast play on a hot sandy beach.The flat lands of the Great Plains provide miles of room for bicycle tag. but the con-fined spaces of a crowded city demand games like alley dodge ball. A snake is likely to become a pet for the child born near theEverglades. but not for a child who lives where snakes are not part of the environment. In these and other ways the program relates children's play to the places in which they live.

1018. Rhythms From Africa (15:21)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. The program specifically concerns Americans of African descent who. in the 1970's, are engaged in an active s'arch for an expression of their historical past. Age old African tribal chants become sounds of the '70's forWashington, D.C. children involved in theAfrican Heritage Dancers and Drummers after-school program. Instruments of the African orchestra are introduced and set in motion. Then, children everywhere are invited to blend their hands, feet and voices into the insistent musical mix.

1019. Seeds (22:26)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Delicate furries, colorful sumac, and maple seeds drift and fall everywhere. Inside each seed is a baby plant, waiting to get out,waiting for water to start it growing. A lima bean, through time-lapse photography, shoots out roots, stems and leaves in the miracle of growth. The bean is not unlike a baby chick struggling to be born. Once a plant starts to grow, it tries very hard to live and succeeds in many strange and unlikely places.

1020. Shadows (15:43)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
From the series Ripples.A group of children explores their own and other shadows in a variety of ways. Outdoor shadows in the sunshine play tag, box, wiggle and grow longer than the children really are.Two boys discover that a wall and a light allow them to build a shadow zoo in the bed-room. A shadow play, performed behind a sheet, turns "rocks" into "monsters." Cool shadows are appreciated on a ha day. And a young man discovers that night shadows are not so scary when he finds out what causes them.