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301. Inside/Out: Just Joking (33:55)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Although David is really more mischievous than malicious, his idea of amusing himself is playing jokes on others. On the morning of the all-school hobby day, he scoffs at the doll clothes his young...

302. Inside/Out: Lost Is a Feeling (22:41)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Amador and his family are moving from Puerto Rico to Washington, D.C., and his parents have sent him on ahead by plane to stay with his Aunt Rosa and Uncle Roberto. When he arrives at their apartme...

303. Inside/Out: Must I/May I (22:23)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
In interwoven stories Debbie and Bobby must each deal with situations that try their growing sense of independence. Debbie is supposed to look after her younger cousins and get them safely to a day...

304. Inside/Out: Someone Special (34:01)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Remembering what he was like as a boy, David wistfully recalls the crush he had on his teacher, Miss Simpson. "I thought she was the prettiest lady in the world." His fantasies come back to him-how...

305. Inside/Out: Strong feelings (14:42)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
In a fantastic dream a boy named Edgar is visited by the "Professor of Anatomy" and his animated chart of the human body. During a series of zany sequences, Edgar discovers how the emotions of love...

306. Inside/Out: Travelin' Shoes (22:41)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Larry Billups has come to the hard decision that he must move his family from the country neighborhood where they have always lived to Washington, D.C. He knows that he needs to make a better livin...

307. Inside/Out: Travelin' shoes (14:54)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Larry Billups has come to the hard decision that he must move his family from the country neighborhood where they have always lived to Washington, D.C. He knows that he needs to make a better livin...

308. Inside/Out: When is Help? (14:36)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Karen and Roger disagree about how much or how little help people really need, and Pete just doesn't know one way or the other. Roger insists that "people should do things for themselves, not alway...

309. Inside/Out: Yes, I Can (22:26)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
At summer camp in the mountains nine-year-old David insists that he is ready to go out on his own for an "overnight." Although the counselors are skeptical and the other campers mildly supportive o...

310. Inside/Out: You Belong (22:28)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
"You are a part of all that you see" is the theme of a visual essay that explores the vital connections between human beings and their surroundings. Scenes of city life with high-rise apartments, f...

311. Inside/Out:Just One Place (22:28)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Kevin has always taken the run-down city neighborhood where he lives pretty much for granted. His attitudes start to change, however, when he goes off with his 4-H club on a week-long camping trip ...

312. Last Hour Clash (22:46)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 from the Agency for Instructional Television series The Heart of Teaching. Dramatizations are designed to help teachers deal with problems - frustration, anger, isolation, change and pres...

313. Our Bread Basket (34:06)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Provides viewers with an insight into modern-day wheat farming on both irrigated and dry land in the Great Plains. Sho...

314. Our Federal District (34:21)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John E. Rugg takes viewers to significant locations in and around Washington, D.C., to help them understand its i...

316. Our Forty-Ninth State (34:21)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 15 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg discusses Alaska, including geographical features, wildlife, and the Eskimo. Covers such topics as cli...

317. Our National Parks (34:03)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg introduces the national park system, focusing on Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde. Presents h...

318. Passing on Tradition (34:05)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Shows cultural continuity: in Africa with woodcarving, weaving, and ceramics; in Japan with gardening, flower arranging,...

319. Play It Safe (16:45)

Date:
1985
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 from 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).

320. Providing for Family Needs (22:33)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Shows that most human activity in the cultures of the Japanese, Tarahumara Indians, and the Baoule' of Africa is spent e...

321. Religion (17:56)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Examines the special place religion holds in the cultures of the Japanese, the Tarahumara, and the Baoule'. Hosted by Jo...

322. Safety Counts (18:14)

Date:
1985
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 from 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).

323. Seaports & Ships (34:13)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 of the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Shows fishermen along the New England coast and in the Atlantic catching lobster.

324. Sports, Society, and Self (24:08)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Games are played and watched in every culture. The Tarahumara are endurance runners; Japanese physical training is roote...

325. Storehouse of Minerals (34:28)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg visits several Rocky Mountain mining sites, discussing surface and underground operations. Shows an op...

326. Taxes Influence Behavior (16:20)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 from Understanding Taxes. Uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.

327. Teacher's Meeting (32:09)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Television series The Heart of Teaching. Dramatizations are designed to help teachers deal with problems - frustration, anger, isolation, change and pres...

328. The Baulé (22:42)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Depicts the lifestyle of a West African family. In addition to growing or making most essentials, they also grow cash cr...

329. The Environment (34:08)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Shows how the life-styles of different groups of people throughout the world are shaped by the physical environment. Loo...

330. The Japanese (22:39)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 of the Agency for Instructional Television Series Across Cultures. Follows the daily activities of two families. Shows interaction of Japan with other countries for importing and exportin...

331. The Northwest (34:02)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 14 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg reviews the exploration and settlement of the American Northwest, including the Columbia River, the Le...

332. The Parent Crunch (22:24)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 from the Agency for Instructional Television series The Heart of Teaching. Dramatizations are designed to help teachers deal with problems - frustration, anger, isolation, change and pres...

333. The Problem of Water (33:57)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 13 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg discusses the conditions in desert regions where little or no water is available, focusing on Californ...

334. The Tarahumara (22:35)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Examines the society and culture of the Tarahumara Indians in Chihuahua, Mexico. Shows how their isolation in mountain v...

336. Tidewater to Piedmont (34:01)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. This visit to the southeastern United States discusses the role of tobacco in the growth of the Virginia Colony, the i...

337. We Make Anything (34:10)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg shows the mass production of bicycles and automobiles in order to foster an understanding of the import...

338. Wellness | Go, Grow, Glow | Food Power | Clean Power (1:02:36)

Date:
1985
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
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).

339. You Are Special (16:55)

Date:
1985
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 from 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).

340. 55 To Get Ready (15:16)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. It seems easy to get on a plane and fly somewhere, but it takes about 55 people to get a jet ready to fly. Each has his own job handling baggage, fueling, preparing and sto...

341. A Challenge: Design a Language (15:41)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 38 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 ...

342. A Challenge: Make Something New (22:35)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 55 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 ...

343. A Challenge: Plan a City of the Future (15:23)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 60 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 ...

344. A Challenge: Search for the Unknown (15:45)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 28 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 ...

345. A Challenge: Time Capsule: Make a Present for the Future (15:34)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 15 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 ...

346. A Friend Indeed (Responsibility) (34:06)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 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, marij...

347. A Friend Indeed [outtakes roll 32, DAP #9] (31:16)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited production footage from A Friend Indeed (Responsibility), episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.

348. A Friend Indeed [outtakes roll 33, DAP #9] (31:11)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited production footage from A Friend Indeed (Responsibility), episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.

349. A Friend Indeed [outtakes roll 36, DAP #9] (31:14)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited production footage from A Friend Indeed (Responsibility), episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.

350. A Friend Indeed [outtakes roll 37, DAP #9] (31:14)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited production footage from A Friend Indeed (Responsibility), episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.

351. A Friend Indeed [outtakes roll 38, DAP #9] (31:11)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited production footage from A Friend Indeed (Responsibility), episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.

352. A Friend Indeed [outtakes roll 39, DAP #9] (31:14)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited production footage from A Friend Indeed (Responsibility), episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.

353. A Friend Indeed [outtakes roll 40, DAP #9] (31:12)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited production footage from A Friend Indeed (Responsibility), episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.

354. A Friend Indeed [outtakes roll 41, DAP #9] (31:06)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited production footage from A Friend Indeed (Responsibility), episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.

356. A Grandmother for the Orphelines (34:20)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 13 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces the story by Natalie Savage Carlson about Josine, the littlest orphan in an old French castle, who wants a grandmother so much that she locks up a...

357. A Key to Productivity: Human Capital (22:35)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

358. A Little Help From My Friends (Friendship) (15:12)

Date:
1980
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 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 ...

359. A Matter of Time (Solving Problems) (22:37)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 57 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 ...

361. A Perro Pepe le duele un diente (34:05)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 27 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 cul...

362. A Tip: Calm Your Jitters! (16:17)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 34 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 ...

363. A Tip: Find Your Guide (15:24)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 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 r...

364. A Tip: Get Ahead with Goals (15:19)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 43 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 ...

365. A Tip: Make a Deal with Yourself (15:31)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 49 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 ...

366. A Tip: Practice for Success (14:31)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 31 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 ...

367. A Tip: There Are Many Ways to Go (15:37)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 23 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 ...

368. A Tip: There Are Ways to Remember (22:39)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 19 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 ...

369. A Tip: You Can Remember (15:20)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 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 r...

370. About Global Geography (17:50)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Informational overview of the Agency for Instructional Technology series Global Geography. The program is a joint project of the National Council for Geographic Education, the Association of Americ...

371. About Thinkabout (32:32)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Teacher's introduction to 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 re...

372. About Trade-Offs (13:21)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Promotional overview 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 dramatizat...

373. About Your Choice Our Chance (31:06)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Promotional overview 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, alc...

374. Action Figures (22:28)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 21 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Drawing with Paul Ringler.

375. Active Listening (34:26)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 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 s...

376. Africa [audio outtakes] (30:40)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Global Geography, North Africa/Soutwest Asia:What are the Consequences of Change?

377. Africa [audio outtakes] (13:22)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Global Geography, North Africa/Soutwest Asia:What are the Consequences of Change?

382. Alive With Arts (22:53)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Arts Alive. The program addresses the power and universal appeal of the arts, presenting four examples of students, who, through positi...

383. All By Myself (16:13)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Susie wants to bake a birthday cake for her four-week-old puppies all by herself. With her mother standing by as assistant chef,Susie measures, mixes, sifts, squeezes and s...

384. All Kinds of Houses (21:51)

Date:
1971
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Examines old and new domestic buildings in considering various architectural solutions to problems of providing human shelter.

385. Alternate Route (Thinking) (15:33)

Date:
1980
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 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...

386. Am I Getting Through? (34:20)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 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 ...

387. Americans Build the Panama Canal 1910-1914 (21:11)

Date:
1991
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.

388. Amigos [outtakes #6] (31:10)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited production footage from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Amigos.

389. Amigos [outtakes #7] (31:12)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited production footage from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Amigos.

390. Amigos Utilization Workshop 1 (31:12)

Date:
1993
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited production footage of workshop gathered to introduce educators to the Agency for Instructional Technology program Amigos. The workshop took place at the Stardust in Las Vegas, Nevada on 8-...

391. Amigos Utilization Workshop 2 (07:30)

Date:
1993
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Unedited production footage of workshop gathered to introduce educators to the Agency for Instructional Technology program Amigos. The workshop took place at the Stardust in Las Vegas, Nevada on 8-...

393. Animals (22:35)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 13 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...

394. Animals I | Animals II | Serendipity | Nature (1:01:18)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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 th...

395. Animals Need You (15:39)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. What do you do if you run the zoo and your elephant gets sick? What will you feed the tiger in your zoo who would kill a deer for his dinner if he lived in the forest? What...

396. Approximating (Estimating and Approximating) (15:45)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 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 r...