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302. 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 obje...

303. I Don't Get It (Confusion) (20:59)

Date:
1996
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Program 1 of Looking From The Inside/Out series explores the emotion of confusion and shows how effective communication skills can alleviate confusion.

304. Inside/Out: How Do you Show? (22:25)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
It's a mighty good day for showing how you feel, and Nick, Brice, and Richard do just that. As the three friends leave a playground, they are jumped by older boys who wrestle two of them to the gro...

305. 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...

306. Hanging in There (Solving Problems) (15:43)

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

307. Handy Hands (22:37)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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, a...

308. Working Together (Specialization and the Division of Labor) (22:59)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 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 sp...

309. Why Money (Voluntary Exchange) (20:37)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 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 sp...

310. Fitting In (Stress) (17:46)

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

311. Your Busy Brain (22:27)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 14 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, a...

312. Why Competition? Market Structure (22:28)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

313. Walk and Run | Water | Time | Cutting (1:02:45)

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...

314. We Decide (Social Decision Making) (20:26)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 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 sp...

315. What's Enough? (Judging Information) (15:41)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 46 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 ...

316. Hansel and Gretel (Germany) (34:24)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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 so...

317. About Tax Whys (19:07)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Orientation to Tax Whys a program that uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.

318. Geometry and Measurement: Measuring Volume (34:13)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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 drama...

319. Groundhog's Horse (33:58)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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 ...

320. 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...

321. What Do I Know? (Collecting Information) (16:02)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 16 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 ...

322. Income Tax and You (17:45)

Date:
1993
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Program A from Understanding Taxes. Uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.

323. Good Practice Today! (Refusal Skills) (34:07)

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

324. Vamos al cine (34:13)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 13 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...

325. Give Us a Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole (34:18)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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. Peopl...

326. We Choose: Scarcity & Social Decision Making (22:23)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

327. 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 bracele...

328. Cultural Exchange (33:39)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Examines the pace of cultural exchange in various societies. Contrasts the rapid absorption of western influences in Ja...

329. Consider Your Audience (34:08)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 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 a...

330. Daddy's Girl (Changing Family Relationships) (15:22)

Date:
1980
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 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 ...

331. Deadwood City and The Third Planet from Altair (34:20)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces two stories by Edward Packard in which the reader makes decisions at many turning points, each of which can change the plot. In the first story, th...

332. Creating Music (22:44)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 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...

333. Computers (22:34)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 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...

334. Classifying Information (Classifying) (15:53)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 21 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 ...

335. Choices for the Future (35:44)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 13 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Makes the point that people and cultures operate on the assumption that they will have a future. Looks at what this mea...

336. Creditwise: Opportunity Cost (22:36)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

337. Changing Taxes: Public Goods & Services (22:37)

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

338. But, What Does it Mean? (Giving and Getting Meaning) (16:03)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 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 ...

339. By Train or Plane (34:10)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg discusses the history of American rail transport, including the first transcontinental railroad, the gr...

340. Charles Rice Learning Center: An Oasis in South Dallas (31:17)

Date:
1992
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 4 in the sub series "Successful Schools" from the program Every Child Can Succeed, a series of video programs with facilitators' guides that are designed to show schools how to help disadva...

342. Changes (Physiological Changes) (22:29)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 14 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 adolescen...

343. Blockbusting (Finding Alternatives) (15:43)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 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...

344. Cattle Country (34:08)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg explores the raising of beef cattle in eastern New Mexico and Texas. A Spanish rancho, an early Texas ...

345. Buen viaje, Señorita Fernández (34:13)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 18 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...

346. Caliph Stork (Iraq) (33:43)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 13 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from Iraq about the caliph of Bagdad, who finds himself trapped in the body of a stork. Only the evil magician with des...

347. Education (34:20)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Examines the importance of education to all societies and shows what the educational system is like for Mexico's Tarahum...

348. Arts and Technology (22:36)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 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 posit...

349. Body Talk (15:13)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Fingers, hands, feet. faces and bodies "talk"about how a person feels. Norma Canner and a group of children explore body talk for"I'm afraid," "I'm glad you're here," "I'm ...

350. Cartoon Faces (34:07)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 24 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Drawing with Paul Ringler.