351. 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 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.

352. 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 disadvantaged students achieve academic success.

354. 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 adolescence. It aims at helping 11- to 13-year-olds cope with the physical, social, and emotional changes they are experiencing. Self Incorporated was created under the management of the Agency for Instructional Television through the resources of a consortium of 42 state and provincial educational and broadcasting agencies, with additional assistance from Exxon Corporation.

355. 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 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.

356. 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 land grant, and a twentieth-century ranch show how changes on the range have slowly brought a new way of life to the cattle country. Stresses the difficulties involved in maintaining a profitable cattle business.

357. 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 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.

358. 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 designs on his throne knows the magic word that will restore the caliph to his human form.

359. 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 Tarahumara Indians, Baoulé children in the Ivory Coast, and Japanese youngsters.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.

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

361. 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 very angry," "I'm tired," "I'm excited and happy." and other feelings which children in the classroom can figure out. They play the"Trust" game in which children can participate. Norma also invites children in the classroom to join her in other movement exploration.

362. 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.

363. 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.

364. 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.

365. Balancing a Picture (34:02)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 15 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Drawing with Paul Ringler.

367. Inside/Out: Can Do/Can't Do (22:26)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Dotty and her friend Betty are practicing somersaults, but Betty can't quite get the hang of it. Dotty's older sister, Bernie, joins them to show the girls how the stunt should be done. Dotty resents the performance, complaining that her sister is 'just a big old showoff." Betty hears Dotty's brother Morrie practicing piano and admires his skill, and Morrie responds by helping her learn to play "Chopsticks." This upsets Dotty all the more. Later at dinner her baby sister Pauline has everyone's attention while Dotty is reproved for her table manners, which only makes her more sullen. At bedtime she thinks back over the day's events, wishing that she could be her brother and sisters because of what they each can do. Her wishes are fulfilled when her inner-self "Me" appears in her dreams to grant what she longs for. Dotty imagines herself to be Pauline, Bernie, and Morrie, but quickly learns that each of their lives has its drawbacks. The next morning she and Betty are racing each other in the snow, and Betty, who can't keep up, wishes that she were Dotty. But Dotty, who now knows a little something about wishing to be someone else, asks, "Are you sure?"

368. 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.

369. El regalo de Lu (33:55)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 9 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.

370. El cocinero (34:17)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 25 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.

371. Hands (15:19)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. A horse's hard hoof, a cat's skillful claw, a bear's heavy padded paw and the hand of man are shown to be similar in some way.But a man's hand is shown to be different in a very important way the way he can use his thumb. An x-ray view of hand bones shows the basis for man's flexibility of movement. Pictures of many hands appear to make things man needs to live,to make things beautiful to see and hear, and to do things children need and want to do. Finally,in a classroom participation game, hands"talk" without a word.

372. V-62 Independence (1:04:10)

Date:
19uu
Main contributors:
U.S. Park Service Department of the Interior
Summary:
Source material used for the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.

373. In the Beginning (22:46)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 19 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, and psychology.

374. Environment (22:31)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 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 effectively persuade the principal that the asbestos ceiling tiles used in the school are carcinogenic.

375. Form | Size | Talking | Potpourri (1:00:29)

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.

376. Family Matters (22:28)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 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 adolescence. It aims at helping 11- to 13-year-olds cope with the physical, social, and emotional changes they are experiencing. Self Incorporated was created under the management of the Agency for Instructional Television through the resources of a consortium of 42 state and provincial educational and broadcasting agencies, with additional assistance from Exxon Corporation.

377. Fractions: Multiplication with Fractions and Mixed Numbers (21:22)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 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 dramas in which children must perform real-life mathematics problems, and documentary segments show adults who apply the same skills on the job. Teaches specific problem-solving strategies.

378. Fiddy Wow Wow (Denmark) (34:08)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 14 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from Denmark about ordinary people, including the schoolteacher, who are reduced to speaking nonsense after touching a magic stone. Includes music and sound effects combined with illustrations by Rae Owings.

379. How Do You Know? (15:01)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. A NASA physicist relates the lives and thoughts of children to the thinking processes of professional scientists. He asks whether children would rather eat a coat or an apple? Would they rather put on pairs of roller skates or coats to keep warm? How do they know? And then he shows how people use past experiences to build pictures that help them predict future events. He also shows how children learn to predict through other people's experiences and even how they can use mind pictures to understand things that cannot be seen at all. Finally, the scientist suggests reasons why scientific thinking is useful for a child with a problem and for grownups who want to solve the problems of the world.

380. Geometry: Exploring the movement of objects in space (19:42)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 13 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 programs emphasizes the application of math skills and problem solving strategies. I features dramatic vignettes involving fifth graders solving math problems that relate to their everyday lives and documentary-style illustrations of people who use math as a normal part of their profession.

382. I Do Care (Social Responsibility) (16:27)

Date:
1992
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 4 of Just For Me, a program designed to help teachers and parents aid children in dealing with the peer pressures of drugs and alcohol use.

383. Helping Out (Market Intervention: Increasing Indirect Benefits) (22:35)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 15 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.

384. Where Should I Go? (Collecting Information) (22:36)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 17 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.

385. Why Bother? (Finding Alternatives) (15:22)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 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.

386. Who are You? (Self-Concept) (17:45)

Date:
1992
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 1 of Just For Me, a program designed to help teachers and parents aid children in dealing with the peer pressures of drugs and alcohol use.

387. Getting Together (Love) (15:37)

Date:
1980
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 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. Geometry: Exploring geometric shapes (34:28)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 5 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 programs emphasizes the application of math skills and problem solving strategies. I features dramatic vignettes involving fifth graders solving math problems that relate to their everyday lives and documentary-style illustrations of people who use math as a normal part of their profession.

389. 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.

390. 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.

391. Inside/Out: Can I Help? | Living With Love | Can Do/Can't Do | Breakup (1:02:35)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Inside/Out teaches mental health instead of teaching about it. The programs and lessons deal with situations that, if poorly handled, often cause the human hurts that appear to underlie many kinds of self-defeating behavior. Inside/Out provides. a "feelings" approach to health education. The series recognizes that the way a person lives, the kinds of decisions he makes, and how he feels are as important to his well-being as heredity, environment, and the medical care he receives. The programs can also be used as opportunities to initiate topics or categories of health education required by state or local boards of education. Studies of the effects of alcohol and tobacco, drug abuse, family living, safety, nutrition, and human anatomy can all be approached through the affective lessons of Inside/Out.

392. Inside/Out: Buy and Buy (22:26)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Captain Selmore, the host of a T.V. cartoon show, is up to his usual tricks. He's making a frantic sales pitch to his young audience for the latest gimmicky toy, the iron whirligig. Two of the Captain's regular viewers, Pete and Joe, are excited by the Captain's spiel and beg their mother to buy the toy for them. Their father, however, has his doubts and says no. The boys are determined to work out some way to get it after all. Pete tries to persuade Joe to use the money that he's been saving for a bicycle, but Joe has begun to have his own doubts about the real value of the toy. The brothers talk over the pros and cons of the purchase and then go off to a store to inspect the iron whirligig to see for themselves whether it's really as spectacular as Captain Selmore has claimed. Pete is all the more enthusiastic about the toy, but Joe hasn't yet made up his mind.

393. Southeast Asia: How Does Change Occur? (33:28)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 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.

394. Water (22:27)

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.

395. Inside/Out: Home Sweet Home (15:11)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Eddie's parents are so angrily involved in their own conflicts that they neglect him emotionally and verbally abuse him. Steve comes from a loving family whose high standards and strict discipline are sometimes at odds with what he feels to be fair. Mistreated once again by his mother, Eddie stays away from school until he can find Steve. The boys go to Steve's house to play, but Steve's mother interrupts their games to make Steve clean the bathroom. Matching their grievances, the boys decide to run away that night. When they meet at the appointed place, Steve tells Eddie that he has changed his mind "because my mother would worry about me." Angered by his friend's betrayal, Eddie belligerently calls him "chicken," but his anger soon turns into desolation.

396. 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.

397. What's Wrong with Jonathan? (22:25)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
Episode 10 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 adolescence. It aims at helping 11- to 13-year-olds cope with the physical, social, and emotional changes they are experiencing. Self Incorporated was created under the management of the Agency for Instructional Television through the resources of a consortium of 42 state and provincial educational and broadcasting agencies, with additional assistance from Exxon Corporation.

398. El gran secreto de Perro Pepe (34:22)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 5 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.

400. Geometry and Measurement: Measuring Angles (33:57)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 16 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 dramas in which children must perform real-life mathematics problems, and documentary segments show adults who apply the same skills on the job. Teaches specific problem-solving strategies.