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601. Relationships (22:40)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 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 ...

602. Soongoora and Simba (Zanzibar) (34:30)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from Tanzania about a clever rabbit, Soongoora, who finds that his craving for honey repeatedly gets him into trouble wi...

603. Space (22:35)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 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 ...

604. Sports (22:33)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 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 ...

605. Stan Bolovan (Romania) (34:17)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from Romania about a man who takes a job as a dragon slayer, but finds it more profitable to outsmart the dragon. Includ...

606. Statistics: Analyzing data (28:00)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 26 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute progr...

607. Statistics: Collecting Data (32:16)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 21 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute progr...

608. Statistics: Sampling (34:32)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 12 of Math Works, a program from the Agency for Instructional Technology designed to strengthen and complement existing fifth-grade math instruction. Each of the twenty-eight 15 minute progr...

609. Taxes Affect Different Income Groups (16:47)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 4 of Tax Whys a program that uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.

610. Taxes Influence Behavior (34:42)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 2 of Tax Whys a program that uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.

611. Taxes Involve Conflicting Goals (33:59)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 3 of Tax Whys a program that uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.

612. Taxes Raise Revenue (17:12)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 1 of Tax Whys a program that uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.

613. Taxes...Can They Be Shifted? (17:27)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 5 of Tax Whys a program that uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.

614. Taxes...What is Fair? (16:46)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 6 of Tax Whys a program that uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.

615. The Bargain (Ireland) (34:07)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from Ireland about a man named Myles who turns the tables on a crafty old farmer who has tricked him into working for no...

616. The Charmed Ring (India) (34:30)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from India about a kindhearted man who is repaid in the end for the friendship that he bestows on a cat, a dog, and a sn...

617. The Chenoo (Micmac Indians) (34:19)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 of the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a Micmac Indian tale about an Indian brave who warns his wife never to touch a leather pouch in their wigwam. When their little s...

618. The Sorcerer's Boy (Russia) (34:11)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a Russian tale about a sorcerer who misrepresents himself as a teacher and turns Peter into a toad, a dove, and a horse. Inclu...

619. The Willow Tree (England/China) (34:32)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from England and China about a girl who defies her greedy father and elopes with the gardener's son rather than submit t...

620. Work (22:37)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 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 ...

621. A Changing Romance: Americans and Wheels (21:53)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 8 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Gives examples of why and how the development of a new technology in one transportation system, the automobile...

622. 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...

623. 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 ...

624. Breaking Down a Topic (34:01)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 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...

625. Building On Your Work (20:47)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 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 ...

626. Child Sexual Abuse: An Ounce of Prevention Ages 12-14 (33:48)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Made for and in cooperation with Planned Parenthood Association of Cincinnati, Ohio, this program presents frank conversations and analyzes situations to help children prevent and/or report sexual ...

627. Child Sexual Abuse: An Ounce of Prevention Ages 4-8 (22:43)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Made for and in cooperation with Planned Parenthood Association of Cincinnati, Ohio, this program presents frank conversations and analyzes situations to help children prevent and/or report sexual ...

628. Child Sexual Abuse: An Ounce of Prevention Ages 9-11 (20:44)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Made for and in cooperation with Planned Parenthood Association of Cincinnati, Ohio, this program presents frank conversations and analyzes situations to help children prevent and/or report sexual ...

629. Child sexual abuse: An ounce of prevention Parent Program (22:52)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Made for and in cooperation with Planned Parenthood Association of Cincinnati, Ohio, this program presents frank conversations and analyzes situations to help children prevent and/or report sexual ...

630. China, Japan and the West (32:22)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Provides a general description of the comparative technology of China and the West in the fifteenth and ninete...

631. 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...

632. Classifying in Science (34:20)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, analy...

633. Communicating in Science (34:01)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, anal...

634. Communication (23:53)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Examines the impact of transportation and communication on various cultures, using the Baoulé people of West Africa, t...

635. Communications: The Expanding World (21:26)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 7 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Traces communication development from earliest writing through printing, telegraph, telephone systems, and new...

636. 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...

637. Cultural Change (34:13)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Cultural change is the outcome of dramatic shifts in a society's way of living. In Mexico, people resist change and the...

638. 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...

639. Decision Making in Science (32:05)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, anal...

640. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions (21:30)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 2 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Focuses on the decisions individuals must make regarding the use of modern technology for the good of society ...

641. 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...

642. Energy for Societies (31:56)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 4 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Discusses the movement from fossil fuels as energy sources to the development of nuclear energy and other ener...

643. Experimenting in Science (24:35)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, anal...

644. Exploring Space (34:20)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 11 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Describes how scientific inquiry and military goals have led to the exploration of space.

645. Feeding the World (20:25)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Discusses food supply and inequalities of distribution around the world and the role of agricultural technolog...

646. How Can I Be a Constructive Critic? (25:53)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 from the Agency for Instructional Television series In Other Words. In this television program focusing on communication skills, host Stephanie Edwards provides on-camera commentary for ...

647. How Can I Get People to Listen? (34:26)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 from the Agency for Instructional Television series In Other Words. In this television program focusing on communication skills, host Stephanie Edwards provides on-camera commentary for s...

648. Hypothesizing in Science (33:55)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, analy...

649. Inferring in Science (34:20)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, analy...

650. Measuring in Science (34:18)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, analy...

651. Modeling in Science (33:48)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, analy...

652. Observing in Science (34:05)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, analy...

653. Organizing Your Message (34:16)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 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...

654. 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...

655. 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,...

656. Population Patterns and Technology (33:17)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 10 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Discusses the growth of population before and after industrialization and the relation between the two events...

657. Predicting in Science (16:41)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, analy...

658. 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...

659. Questioning in Science (17:11)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, analy...

660. Recording Data in Science (33:51)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, analy...

661. 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...

662. Risk, Safety, and Technology (33:57)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 12 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. While we provide ourselves with the greatest benefits at the lowest risk, we are learning to design safety in...

663. 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.

664. 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...

665. Teaching with You, Me and Technology (32:22)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Informational program for teachers using the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology.

666. 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...

667. 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...

668. 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...

669. 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...

670. The Technology Spiral (33:33)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 3 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Describes with humorous results what would happen if transistors, vacuum tubes, Thomas Edison, wheels, petrole...

671. Using People Sources (34:43)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 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...

672. Using the Words of Others (22:38)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 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...

673. What's the Best Word? (22:38)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 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 ...

674. Would an Example Help? (22:36)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 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...

676. 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...

677. 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.

678. Blue Moose and Return of the Moose (34:10)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces two stories by Daniel M. Pinkwater about a blue moose. In the first story, the moose moves in with a man who runs a restaurant and becomes the head...

679. Changing Scale on a Graph (22:17)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 25 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child ge...

680. 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.

681. Comparing Decimals (33:26)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 23 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child ge...

682. 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.

683. 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...

684. Deciding How Close to Measure (22:16)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child get...

685. Deciding When to Use Multiplication (22:36)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child get...

686. Deciding When To Use Subtraction (17:20)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child get...

687. Estimating When Dividing (22:49)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 22 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child ge...

688. Finding Area by Covering (22:54)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 20 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child ge...

689. Finding Equivalent Fractions (33:47)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 19 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child ge...

690. 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...

691. 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 ...

692. Have You Seen Hyacinth Macaw? (34:19)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces the story about a junior girl detective who investigates the mysterious noises that are coming from the apartment next door. Designed to encourage ...

693. Let's Save: Opportunity Cost (22:20)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

694. Looking at Objects from Different Positions (22:44)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child get...

695. Making Sense Of A Big Number (18:43)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 21 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child ge...

696. Market Prices: Supply & Demand (22:39)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

697. My Father's Dragon (33:05)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces the story by Ruth Stiles Gannett about a young boy who runs away and outsmarts wild animals to rescue a little dragon.

698. My Robot Buddy and My Trip to Alpha I (33:08)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces two stories by Alfred Slote about a young boy and his robot buddy. In the first story, the boy asks for a robot for his tenth birth so he will have...

699. Predicting Your Change (15:01)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 15 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child ge...

700. Private or Public?: Public Goods & Services (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.