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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 technologies.
From the series Ripples. As Andrew and Susie bound over a broad meadow and explore a great cathedral, they begin to understand how different spaces influence their feelings. In the cathedral crossing Susie wishes she were a bird able to swoop through the color washed sunlight. An-drew sniffs adventure in a dark stone spiral staircase, where Susie feels fear. Together the children feel the power of a long narrow space that makes them want to run, and they also discover the uneasy feeling of a mysterious kind of space.
Lesson 4 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.
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.
Episode 7 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 decipher the specialized terms associated with filmmaking in order to prepare their entry for a local film festival. They also discover that different characters need different vocabularies to sound right.
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 gets caught in the problem that does not come out successfully, but experience proves the best teacher. Capsizing the information taught in each program is a cartoon sequence. These cartoons provide previews of what follows from a live-action sequence. The content of It Figures was developed by a consortium of 31 state and provincial education agencies. Managing the project were Ed Cohen and the late Larry Walcoff. Individual programs were produced by Larry Wood Productions (in the facilities of KLVX in Las Vegas), the Illinois State Board of Education, New Jersey Network (NJN), KLCS in Los Angeles, Maryland Instructional Television and South Carolina ETV.
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 gets caught in the problem that does not come out successfully, but experience proves the best teacher. Capsizing the information taught in each program is a cartoon sequence. These cartoons provide previews of what follows from a live-action sequence. The content of It Figures was developed by a consortium of 31 state and provincial education agencies. Managing the project were Ed Cohen and the late Larry Walcoff. Individual programs were produced by Larry Wood Productions (in the facilities of KLVX in Las Vegas), the Illinois State Board of Education, New Jersey Network (NJN), KLCS in Los Angeles, Maryland Instructional Television and South Carolina ETV.
Episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Drawing with Paul Ringler. This program demonstrates how an artist determines the height of a person or an object in relation to the known height of another object in a perspective drawing.
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.
From the series Ripples. A rookie fire fighter learns about handling a pumper and hose with models in a training class. He advances to a real drill with real equipment and real teamwork. Suddenly his company is called to a fire. All their practice helps them meet the crisis of a hose break at the fire. The rookie succeeds as part of the team.
Episode 9 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 J.J. is ready to quit the team after the coach says that J.J. isn't stretching himself. J.J.'s friend, Al, understands the coach's words to have a different meaning.
Episode 3 of Your Choice Our Chance, a series of drug abuse prevention programs to be viewed by students and community members in an effort to educate and prevent the use of tobacco, alcohol, 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.
Episode 14 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 the editor of the school paper rejects Carl's humorous article on menu language in favor of Beth's story about a friend's death from anorexia nervosa.
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.
Unit 1 of the Agency for Instructional Technology series Principles of Technology. Examines the principles behind force in six modules: an overview, force in mechanical systems, pressure in fluid systems, voltage in electrical systems, temperature in thermal systems, and a summary.
Unit 7 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Principles of Technology. Examines the physics of force transformers as applied in mechanical, fluid and electrical systems.
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.
Lesson 11 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.
Lesson 20 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.
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.
Episode 13 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.
From the series Ripples. Children in a kindergarten classroom de-scribe "being friends" in terms of their own experiences at school laughing together,talking on the phone, helping somebody with a hard job, teaching somebody something that he wants to know. They also think about not being friends and the way it feels when somebody's "just plain mean." How to make a new friend, whether one always needs a friend to have fun, and whether grown-ups can be friends are other ideas explored.
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.
Unedited segments and/or outtakes from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.
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.
Episode 9 from Solve It a series produced by the Agency for Instructional Technology that focuses on teaching everyday mathematical skills. In each episode young hosts introduce and interpret 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.
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.
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.
Episode 4 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.
Episode 13 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.
Episode 28 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Images and Things. Considers ways in which people communicate, examining some of the media of communications and the artistic forms used to transmit various kinds of messages.
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.
Episode 4 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.
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. People treat her like a celebrity and even schedule a recital. Designed to encourage students to read the book.
From the series Ripples.
Chris tumbles headlong from a tree and rides to the hospital in an ambulance. As he is examined, X-rayed, wrapped in a plaster leg cast, and fitted with a hospital bracelet, he gets the information he needs to cope with the dramatic change in his life from the efficient adults around him. Continued in Overnight in the Hospital.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
Unedited production footage from Good Practice Today (Refusal Skills), episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Technology program Your Choice Our Chance.
