301. Inside/Out: In My Memory (22:30)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Linda comes home from school to find her parents saddened and subdued. They tell her that her grandmother, who had suffered a stroke, had died during the day. Throughout the next few days Linda experiences many strong emotions. She feels guilt and separation at the loss as well as support and comfort from her parents and the relatives who come to help. Through the experience of the funeral, the love of her parents, and the explanation of death by her mother and father, Linda's fears are lessened, and she comes to accept her grandmother's death. In a final poignant scene Linda and her mother join hands and cry together in the realization that Grandmother will never come back but will live in their memories.

302. Inside/Out: Jeff's Company (22:26)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Jeff's home is in the mountain country of the West. An only child, he is separated by long distances from his schoolmates, and his life on his parents' ranch is often solitary. Chores around the ranch, rides in the mountains on his horse, and his various interests usually keep Jeff occupied and seldom leave him feeling lonely. One of his classmates invites him to come to his house for a roundup, but it's forty miles away and someone will have to drive him there. Jeff 's mother is willing to let him go, but his father says that he can't spare the time to take the boy, and that Jeff will just have to content himself with being on his own. Jeff begins to feel sorry for himself as he rides off alone. He stops at a neighbor's cabin, and the older man who lives on the place hears him out and then talks sympathetically about being alone, giving Jeff reassurance that solitude does provide its own pleasures.

303. 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 younger sister Sandy has made to show to her class, and she gets back at him with a prank that spoils his breakfast. Their mother scolds her, cautioning that "jokes are all right if they don't hurt anybody." David rushes off to school without breakfast and along the way teases a girl by grabbing a package from her and running off with it. During the course of the day he tricks a candy store clerk, snatches away a classmate's glasses, and puts a sticky sign on another student's desk seat. There is a turn of events when David gets up before the class to discuss his own hobby and show a model airplane. So far David hasn't learned that what seems funny to him isn't very funny to anyone else. Suddenly, as he looks into his package, he imagines vividly what might have happened if each of his jokes had turned out differently. When his daydream is over, David discovers that although he's been the joker, someone else has had the last laugh.

304. 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 apartment, he looks out on the new and strange city streets, noisy with traffic and walled in by buildings, so unlike the neighborhood he knows at home. Three weeks later Amador, ill-at-ease and unhappy, is moping around the apartment when his uncle appears with a present for him-a new baseball glove. Uncle Roberto tells him that he must take it outdoors so that he can find some boys to play with and make some new friends. He finds a game in progress and watches from the sidelines until a fly ball comes his way and he catches it. This annoys the other boys, and they start toward Amador, expecting some sort of explanation. Confused by their manner, Amador blurts out "I can play" in Spanish, but fears that the boys are out to get him and runs away from them, dropping his mitt on the field. One of the boys, Peter, who speaks some Spanish, picks it up and explains to the others that Amador only wants to play with them, and then runs after Amador to return the mitt. Meanwhile Amador has come to a bridge where he stops to look down into the stream below. He goes down to the creek and begins to wade into the water until a mounted policeman tells him to get out of the polluted creek. Confused and frightened, he clutches his shoes and runs off barefoot to find his way back to the apartment. He catches sight of Peter running toward him and speeds up, afraid of what might happen to him. He reaches the safety of the apartment, where Peter leaves the mitt for him. Watching from inside, Amador seems to understand at last that the boys have really meant him no harm.

305. 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 care center. Overwhelmed by the task of minding the children and being responsible for general housekeeping and cooking at home, she is distracted by other things she would rather be doing. Bobby, unlike her, has been given too little responsibility for his own actions. His mother constantly fusses over him and fails to let him do things for himself. Eventually he gets his chance when he is given a package to deliver. How the children resolve their separate problems is left for classroom discussion. The emotions they feel as they work through their problems are clearly expressed.

306. 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 he would prove himself a hero in her eyes by winning races and saving her from a mugger. There were furtive phone calls and bicycle rides past her house, even a ruse about selling raffle tickets. As a nine-year-old, David dreams that Miss Simpson has fallen in love with him, but when he confesses his feelings to his best friend, he learns that she is engaged. His classmates tease him on the playground, until he works up the courage to ask her if she likes him more than anyone else in the class. He catches her at the wrong moment after school when she is hurrying to finish up her work. She tells him rather curtly that no, she likes all of her students just the same. But David hears only that he has been rejected and goes away hurt. From then on his conduct changes radically: he picks fights when he is teased and "stops being good and starts causing trouble" to win Miss Simpson's attention. One day after school he rushes into the empty classroom and begins to gash "I hate you" on her desk. The principal catches him in the act, and afterwards in the school office, Miss Simpson tries to help him gain a greater understanding of what they both have experienced.

307. 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, fright, disappointment, confusion, and embarrassment affect the body. As he awakes from his dream, he finds he is reacting to the stimulus of the dream with strong emotions; he is worried by the feelings in his stomach, the race of his pulse, perspiration, and cold palms. He is reassured by his father that his body is designed to react in this way and goes back to sleep to dream again of the "Professor" and his charts.

308. 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 living for them, although moving means giving up their relatives, old friends, their church, and the pleasures of the water. Stuart, his son, resists the whole idea, and tries to persuade his parents to let him stay behind with his grandfather. His older sister, Kim, can hardly wait to get to the city, where she expects to discover a more exciting kind of life. Did, the youngest child, is a passive observer of the events that surround her. There are mixed, even strained feelings within the Billups family about the coming move, and these are revealed both in open opposition and in quiet uncertainty. The members of the Billups' church gather for a farewell party, and Mrs. Kelly, the pastor of the congregation, tells them that as long as they stay together as a family, they can never really be moved; they will have the security of each other.

309. 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 living for them, although moving means giving up their relatives, old friends, their church, and the pleasures of the water. Stuart, his son, resists the whole idea, and tries to persuade his parents to let him stay behind with his grandfather. His older sister, Kim, can hardly wait to get to the city, where she expects to discover a more exciting kind of life. Did, the youngest child, is a passive observer of the events that surround her. There are mixed, even strained feelings within the Billups family about the coming move, and these are revealed both in open opposition and in quiet uncertainty. The members of the Billups' church gather for a farewell party, and Mrs. Kelly, the pastor of the congregation, tells them that as long as they stay together as a family, they can never really be moved; they will have the security of each other.

310. 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 always look for help," but Karen believes that "everyone has to help everyone else. To prove his point, Roger sets out to collect materials so that he can build a doghouse. He refuses all offers of help and muddles through in his very own way, spilling nails, stumbling about with boards, and groping with tools. Karen busies herself by attending to everyone she can: she takes over a friend's bicycle to show her how to ride it "properly"; she helps a boy with his arithmetic problems by doing all the work for him; she rushes up to carry in grocery bags for a neighbor. All the while his friends are occupied, Pete goes about his job of delivering papers and, as he does so, gives directions to a truck driver, rescues a girl's cat caught in a tree, and runs an errand as a favor to a storekeeper. After Pete and Karen have finished their own rounds, they check to see how Roger is making out with his doghouse. His masterwork won't win any priz.es, but, as Roger insists, he's done it himself.

311. 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 or openly derisive, David goes ahead doggedly, trying to show everyone that he is now capable of "solo camping." When his parents send their permission, the camp director relents, but imposes some conditions. David, now all the more self-assertive, sets off to prove himself. He is given only three matches to use-the limit for solo campers. After some initial success in finding a site and scavenging for food, he watches his matches die out one by one. The program ends with David's dilemma of whether to stick it out or return to the main camp.

312. 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, freeway traffic, and urban sprawl are intercut with rural landscapes. A camping experience brings the manifold facets of nature into focus. Throughout the program the intricate balance of environmental elements reveals "...how every living thing borrows from something else." Because everything in creation has its own function, man must learn carefully what to preserve and what to destroy.

313. 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 in the country. For the first time in his life he encounters the unspoiled beauty of green open fields, clear streams, and wild flowers. The experience moves him to think about his own environment, and he talks it over with Jimmi, the club's adult leader, who tells him that the easiest way to make the city better is to find "just one place" and make it beautiful. Kevin follows the advice and starts looking for that one place. He finds some children who are working together to clean up a lot, and they tell him that they're going to plant a garden so that they can raise and sell vegetables in the fall. Kevin decides to help them out, and one of the girls, Marinda, shows him how to plant seeds. Later in the summer the garden has become a reality. Kevin is intensely proud of the accomplishment, and Jimmi is an admiring observer of the project. But Kevin's fortunes change suddenly, when one night some older boys, messing around on their way home, run through the garden and thoughtlessly tear it up. The children discover the mischief the next day and, angered and depressed by the senseless destruction of something they've worked long and hard to create, Kevin and Marinda talk over with Jimmi whether it's really worth the effort to try again next year.

314. 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 pressure.

315. 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. Shows cultivating the soil, planting seed, harvesting the kernels, and marketing the crop. Highlights the history of the area by showing a sod house and shed, prairie grass, a one-room school, a windmill, and other aspects of prairie life. Hosted by John Rugg.

316. 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 important role in the country's history and in contemporary times. Archival photographs and a historical reenactment help to tell the story.

317. Our Federal District | Seaports and Ships | New York City: Center of Megalopolis | Tidewater to P... (1:02:43)

Date:
1981
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 important role in the country's history and in contemporary times. Archival photographs and a historical reenactment help to tell the story. Episode 2 shows fishermen along the New England coast and in the Atlantic catching lobster. Episode 3 shows several of New York's boroughs, not only in their contemporary setting, but also from their historical perspective. Archival pictures, voices, and a short dramatic sequence portray the great influx of immigrants from Europe, their first hours at Ellis Island, and their life in ethnic neighborhoods. Episode 4 visits the southeastern United States discusses the role of tobacco in the growth of the Virginia Colony, the importance of cotton and the fall line in making the Piedmont region the textile center of the nation, and George Washington Carver's research on uses for the peanut. Explores the political and cultural heritage of Williamsburg, Virginia.

318. 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 climate changes, the importance of the floatplane, comparisons between the modern Eskimo and their ancestors, and the significance of Prudhoe oil and the trans-Alaska pipelime to the American economy. Presents a dramatic vignette portraying William Seward's determination to purchase Alaska from Russia.

319. 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 historical reenactments portraying Theodore Roosevelt, John Burroughs, and John Wesley Powell. Examines the Anasazi Indian culture.

320. 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, and the tea ceremony; in Mexico with musical instrument making, costumes and dance. Hosted by John Robbins. Produced for Wisconsin Educational Television Network and Agency for Instructional Television by Positive Image Productions, Inc., in association with Academy for Research, Instruction and Educational Systems.

321. 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).

322. 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 either growing food for the family, growing crops for sale, and /or working for the money to buy goods and services. Hosted by John Robbins. Produced for Wisconsin Educational Television Network and Agency for Instructional Television by Positive Image Productions, Inc., in association with Academy for Research, Instruction and Educational Systems.

323. 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 John Robbins. Produced for Wisconsin Educational Television Network and Agency for Instructional Television by Positive Image Productions, Inc., in association with Academy for Research, Instruction and Educational Systems.

324. 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).

325. 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.

326. 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 rooted in martial arts; the Baoule' enjoy a game of mental skill called Awele. Hosted by John Robbins. Produced for Wisconsin Educational Television Network and Agency for Instructional Television by Positive Image Productions, Inc., in association with Academy for Research, Instruction and Educational Systems.

327. 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 open-pit molybdenum mine, milling, tailing ponds, and land reclamation. Highlights early gold and silver booms through dramatic vignettes showing the roles played by Horace Greeley and H.A.W. Taylor.

328. Taxes Influence Behavior (16:20)

Date:
unknown/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.

329. 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 pressure. This episode portrays a faculty meeting in which the teachers of a school discuss whether they are a collection of isolated individuals under one roof or a united faculty whose members work together. Focuses on the professional responsibilities of the teacher.

330. 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 crops for sale and export. Hosted by John Robbins. Produced for Wisconsin Educational Television Network and Agency for Instructional Television by Positive Image Productions, Inc., in association with Academy for Research, Instruction and Educational Systems.

331. 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. Looks at the Baoulé people in the village of Yrakrou, Ivory Coast, where the N'zi River supplies water for drinking, bathing, irrigation, and transportation, but also poses a threat because of seasonal flooding. In Chihuahua, Mexico, the Tarahumara's water supply is polluted and causes intestinal infections that are often fatal to children. The Japanese environment requires living in very limited space and adjusting to the constant threat of earthquakes.Hosted by John Robbins. Produced for Wisconsin Educational Television Network and Agency for Instructional Television by Positive Image Productions, Inc., in association with Academy for Research, Instruction and Educational Systems.

332. 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 exporting, creating a diversified culture: a blend of tradition and technology, east and west, stability and change. Hosted by John Robbins. Produced for Wisconsin Educational Television Network and Agency for Instructional Television by Positive Image Productions, Inc., in association with Academy for Research, Instruction and Educational Systems.

333. 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 Lewis and Clark expedition, and the Oregon Trail. Emphasizes the region's major industries, namely, lumber products and aircraft manufacturing.

334. 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 pressure. When fourth-grader Sandy McNaughton gets A's on his homework and C's on the same work done in class, parent and teacher become involved in a futile confrontation. Sandy is caught in the crunch.

335. 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 California; the problems faced by early explorer Jedediah Smith, who crossed the Mojave Desert in 1826; and the dependency of California's Imperial Valley and the city of Los Angeles on water from outside sources.

336. 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 valleys and canyons has caused them to become self-sufficient and has at the same time contributed to the stability of their culture. Hosted by John Robbins. Produced for Wisconsin Educational Television Network and Agency for Instructional Television by Positive Image Productions, Inc., in association with Academy for Research, Instruction and Educational Systems.

337. The Tennessee Valley | Our Bread Basket | We Make Anything | By Train or Plane (1:02:41)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg reviews the history of the Tennessee Valley through short scenes from the past: Cherokee land, the British at Fort Loudoun, early pioneers at Rocky Mount, a flatboat trip down the river, and the slow deterioration of the valley's resources. Gives a first-hand look at how the Tennessee Valley Authority helped reclaim the region. Episode 6 provides viewers with an insight into modern-day wheat farming on both irrigated and dry land in the Great Plains. Shows cultivating the soil, planting seed, harvesting the kernels, and marketing the crop. Highlights the history of the area by showing a sod house and shed, prairie grass, a one-room school, a windmill, and other aspects of prairie life. Episode 7 shows the mass production of bicycles and automobiles in order to foster an understanding of the importance of the assembly line in American manufacturing. Highlights the ingredients and techniques of making iron and steel. Discusses the innovations of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. Episode 8 discusses the history of American rail transport, including the first transcontinental railroad, the gradual shift from passengers to freight, and the role of commuter and subway trains today. Also highlights air travel, showing the control tower, departure lounges, and an air cargo terminal at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Recreates important moments in the lives of the Wright brothers through a historical vignette.

338. 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 importance of cotton and the fall line in making the Piedmont region the textile center of the nation, and George Washington Carver's research on uses for the peanut. Explores the political and cultural heritage of Williamsburg, Virginia. Hosted by John Rugg.

339. 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 importance of the assembly line in American manucaturing. Highlights the ingredients and techniques of making iron and steel. Discusses the innovations of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.

340. 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).

341. 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).

342. 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 storing food, checking weather and maps,servicing the aircraft. Some important people you don't usually see are maintenance men,meteorologists at the weather station, and controllers in the tower. All these people and more work together so passengers can travel safely and comfortably by jet.

343. 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 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.

344. 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 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.

345. 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 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, C

346. 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 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.

347. 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 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.

348. 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, 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.

349. 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.

350. 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.

351. 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.

352. 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.

353. 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.

354. 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.

355. 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.

356. 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.

357. A Grandmother for the Orephelines | Twenty and Ten | The Whistling Tea-Kettle and The Witch of Fo... (1:04:34)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
A Grandmother for the Orephelines, episode 13 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces the story about Josine, the littlest orphan in an old French castle, who wants a grandmother so much that she locks up an old woman in the dungeon. On Christmas Eve, she thinks she hears the animals talking, but a different surprise awaits her. Designed to encourage students to read the book. Twenty and Ten, episode 14 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces the story about twenty school children who hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II. The Jewish children are safe only if the others can keep silent and not get caught taking them food at night. Designed to encourage students to read the book. The Whistling Tea-Kettle and The Witch of Fourth Street, episode 15 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces two stories, the first by Mindy Warshaw Skolsy about a young girl's gift which frightens robbers from her grandmother's candy store; and the second by Myron Levoy about a girl who has to choose between giving a daily penny to the monkey she loves, or giving it to the woman she believes is a witch. Designed to encourage students to read the books. Ben and Me, episode 16 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces the story about a mouse who lived in Benjamin Franklin's hat. The mouse tells who was really responsible for many of Franklin's famous achievements.

358. 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 an old woman in the dungeon. On Christmas Eve, she thinks she hears the animals talking, but a different surprise awaits her. Designed to encourage students to read the book.

359. 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.

360. 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 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.

361. 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 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.

363. 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 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.

364. 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 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.

365. 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 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.

366. 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 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.

367. 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 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.

368. 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 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.

369. 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 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.

370. 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 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.

371. 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 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.

372. 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 American Geographers, the American Geographical Society, and the National Geographic Society. Intended for grades 6-9.

373. 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 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.

374. 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 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.

375. 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, 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.

376. 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.

377. 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 stories concerning the importance of attention and questioning when interpreting messages. A nondramatic segment presents family counselor Linda Heintz, who points out listening skills important to both counselor and family.

378. 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?

379. 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?

380. Africa-South of the Sahara: How Do People Use Their Environment? (34:02)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Global Geography. The program is a joint project of the National Council for Geographic Education, the Association of American Geographers, the American Geographical Society, and the National Geographic Society. Intended for grades 6-9.

381. Africa-South of the Sahara: How Do People Use Their Environment? [German] (22:19)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Global Geography. The program is a joint project of the National Council for Geographic Education, the Association of American Geographers, the American Geographical Society, and the National Geographic Society. Intended for grades 6-9.

382. Africa-South of the Sahara: How Do People Use Their Environment? [Spanish] (22:27)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Global Geography. The program is a joint project of the National Council for Geographic Education, the Association of American Geographers, the American Geographical Society, and the National Geographic Society. Intended for grades 6-9.

384. 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 positive artistic experiences, became more interested and involved in the world around them. Hosted by Lynn Swann.

385. 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 spills ingredients into the bowl and onto the counter with all the built-in intensity and joy of an eager five-year-old. Susie's face, as she admires her elegant pastry, proves that it's worth learning to do things all by oneself.

386. All Kinds of Houses (21:51)

Date:
1971
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Images and Things. Examines old and new domestic buildings in considering various architectural solutions to problems of providing human shelter.

387. 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 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.

388. 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 stories concerning the usefulness of monitoring listeners' reactions to our messages. A nondramatic segment presents teacher Marah Oseland, who explains why she watches students' facial expressions and body language.

389. 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.

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

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

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

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

392. 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 8-5-93.

393. 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 8-5-93.

395. 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 Al, Beth, and Carl visit the zoo in hopes of finding a project for their school's Awareness Week. Instead, they decide to study the passenger pigeon as a symbol of all endangered species.

396. 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 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.

397. 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 sort of home must you find to make a hippopotamus comfortable? Who should raise the baby tiger when its own mother cannot care for it? These and other questions about man's care of animals are explored on an unusual visit to the National Zoological Parkin Washington, D.C.

398. 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 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.