1001. 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.

1003. Where are you Coming From? (Giving and Getting Meaning) (14:28)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 14 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.

1004. Where Do Jobs Come From?: Derived Demand (33:56)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

1005. Where Do You Get Them? (Using Criteria) (15:49)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 36 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.

1006. 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.

1007. Who Am I? (Developing Self-Concept) (15:11)

Date:
1980
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 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.

1008. 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.

1009. Who Wins? (22:29)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 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.

1010. 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.

1011. Why Competition? Market Structure (22:28)

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

1012. Why Money (Voluntary Exchange) (20:37)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and 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.

1013. Will He or Won't He? (Distrust) (19:36)

Date:
1996
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Program 12 of Looking From The Inside/Out series shows why it is often difficult to trust others, especially someone who consistently breaks promises. Promotes stress-management skills, such as seeking out other people and sharing feelings, as an appropriate strategy for dealing with serious problems.

1014. 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 Al chooses his words carefully when filling out a job application. Later, his friends help him realize that clear, concise language will be more effective during his job interview that big words and fancy phrases.

1015. Work in Fluid Systems [outtakes] (14:34)

Date:
1985
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Unedited audio segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Principles of Technology.

1016. Work in Mechanical Systems [outtakes] (22:04)

Date:
1985
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Unedited audio segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Principles of Technology.

1017. Work Means...(Why People Work) (33:46)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 from Bread and Butterflies, a project in career development for nine-to-twelve-year-olds. Based on two years of planning by educators and broadcasters, the project included 15-minute color television programs, a comprehensive Curriculum Guide, and in-service teacher's program, and international program, and workshop materials. Bread and Butterflies was created under the supervision of the Agency for Instructional Television, through the resources of a consortium of thirty-four educational and broadcasting agencies with assistance from Exxon Corporation.

1019. Working Together (Specialization and the Division of Labor) (22:59)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and 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.

1020. Working Together (Specialization and the Division of Labor) (20:01)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and 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 Springfield. 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.

1021. Workshop #2 [outtakes] (31:14)

Date:
1992
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Unedited production footage from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Every Child Can Succeed.

1022. Worrywart (Worry) (30:55)

Date:
1996
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Program 14 of Looking From The Inside/Out series examines why we worry. Distinguishes between realistic and unrealistic worries. Develops strategies for using worry in a positive way. Promotes decision making skills (confronting fears, finding things to do, talking to each other) as an effective strategy for dealing with everyday worries.

1023. 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 stories about using standard form, language, and organization in various types of writing. A nondramatic segment presents attorney Tom Mei, who explains how it helps him to check what other lawyers have done in similar situations.

1025. You and Your Feelings (22:58)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 26 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.

1026. 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).

1028. You're It (15:46)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Eight seven-year-olds enjoy a unique visit to the National Collection of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. The surprising tour be-gins with a warm-up in which the children relax and learn to "feel" with their eyes.Then they learn to concentrate on what they see by actually trying to become ladies and gentlemen in Eighteenth Century portraits,people and shapes in an emotional scene,and even the shapes and sounds in a "noisy"Twentieth Century abstract.

1029. Your Busy Brain (22:27)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 14 of the Agency for Instructional Television Series All About You, an elementary course in health education designed for children to help them understand basic human anatomy, physiology, and psychology.

1030. Your Choice Our Chance voiceover (12:58)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Outtakes from voiceover by "Kim" for the Agency for Instructional Technology series Your Choice Our Chance.