Start Over Collection Agency for Instructional Technology Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

201. Inside/Out: Bully (22:26)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Adrian is a new boy in the school, and an outstanding student. Frankie, who is not good at school work, increasingly resents him, and as Adrian returns to his desk after starring in a math quiz, Fr...

202. The Way We Live (Lifestyles) (22:28)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 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 colo...

203. 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...

204. Understanding Remainders (22:50)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 17 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...

205. Things, Ideas, people (People at Work) (34:12)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 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 col...

206. Planning Ahead: The Racer (Shaping One's Destiny) (34:19)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 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 col...

207. People Need People (Interdependency of Workers) (22:26)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 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 col...

208. How Could That Happen? (Interdependence on Market Price) (20:24)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 13 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 s...

209. Problem Solving: Making a Table (33:20)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 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...

210. 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...

211. 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...

212. Inside/Out: Brothers and Sisters (22:26)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
David wants to go to a horror movie with his friends, but admits in embarrassment, "My mother won't let me." The boys go off to David's house to run his model racers, but the playroom is already oc...

213. 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...

214. Using Probability (22:40)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 24 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...

215. Using Division (22:53)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 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...

216. Using Multiplication and Addition (22:36)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 13 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...

217. Problem Solving: Many Ways to Go (22:45)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 27 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...

218. Relating Fractions and Decimals (22:50)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 14 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...

219. 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...

222. 55 To Get Ready (15:16)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. It seems easy to get on a plane and fly somewhere, but it takes about 55 people to get a jet ready to fly. Each has his own job handling baggage, fueling, preparing and sto...

223. Animals Need You (15:39)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. What do you do if you run the zoo and your elephant gets sick? What will you feed the tiger in your zoo who would kill a deer for his dinner if he lived in the forest? What...

224. Out To The Moon (15:19)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. This program is paired with GOING HOME TO EARTH. John Bannister of NASA brings a real space suit and a small rocket model to a classroom where children are making and using...

225. Fire! (15:30)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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 h...

226. Stereotyping People (Classifying) (22:35)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 22 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 ...

227. Inside/Out: Must I/May I (22:23)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
In interwoven stories Debbie and Bobby must each deal with situations that try their growing sense of independence. Debbie is supposed to look after her younger cousins and get them safely to a day...

228. I Agree...You're Wrong! (Interpersonal Skills) (22:25)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 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 colo...

229. How To Watch Soccer (25:43)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
Points out some of the key areas that the layman may overlook if he's new to the sport of soccer. Interviews fans who tell why they have been "turned-on" to soccer. Includes a glossery of soccer te...

230. In Harm's Way (Fear) (34:37)

Date:
1996
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Program 9 of Looking From The Inside/Out series discusses how it feels to be scared. Shows how to handle fears rooted in the imagination. Promotes decision making skills (identifying fears, solutio...

231. Locating and Interpreting: Maps, Charts, and Tables (22:27)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 9 from Math Wise a program that teaches mathematics as a means to practical ends. The program shows how math applies to problem-solving in the everyday world and aim to help students to use ...

232. Thanks, But No Thanks (Peer Pressure) (16:53)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 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, marij...

233. Long Nose (Germany) (33:25)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from Germany about Jem who endures laughter and derision until he discovers how to undo the witch's spell that has made ...

235. Numbers III (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 th...

236. The Bigger Picture (Giving and Getting Meaning) (33:58)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 13 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 ...

237. Side By Side (Prejudice) (15:51)

Date:
1980
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 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 ...

238. Half Chick and the Squire's Bride (Spain and Norway) (34:12)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 from the AIT series Teletales. In the first story Mr. Lally tells a Spanish tale about a strange chicken whose selfishness and impatience brings him to an ignominious end atop the talles...

239. If You Go To The Hospital (22:52)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 25 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, a...

240. 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...

241. Problem Solving: Identifying the problem (33:30)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 2 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 progra...

242. Take A Good Look (15:02)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. A magnifying glass helps Lynn discover the richness of her own backyard on a Iazy summer day. Lynn's own bare toes, wiggling in the warm grass. first capture her interest T...

243. 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.

244. How It Used To Be (14:54)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Older ways of doing things are celebrated at an annual folk festival where people share traditions with each other and with thou-sands of visitors who come to see the way t...

245. Statistics: Sampling (28:05)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 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 dram...

246. About Thinkabout (32:32)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Teacher's introduction to Thinkabout, a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and re...

247. Talking Round The World (15:11)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. American children visit in the homes of children from Ghana, India and Japan. They share each other's games, food. language and music. and enjoy similarities and difference...

248. Remember the Audience (Giving and Getting Meaning) (14:50)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 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 ...

249. Problem Solving: Using Graphs (22:32)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 22 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...

250. Ratio/Proportion/Percent: The Meaning of Percent (34:14)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 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 drama...

251. Ratio/Proportion/Percent: Scale Drawing (22:29)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 18 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 dram...

252. Teacher's Instructional Video (32:50)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Video teacher's guide for the Agency for Instructional Technology program Amigos.

253. Problem Solving: Recognizing Necessary Information (22:44)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 18 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...

254. Problem Solving: Drawing A Picture (17:15)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 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...

255. Problem Solving: Simplifying the problem (33:54)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 7 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 progra...

256. Problem Solving: Using tables (18:30)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 10 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...

257. Problem Solving: Solving a Simpler Problem (29:15)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 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 dram...

258. Problem Solving: Using diagrams and models (34:22)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 16 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...

259. Problem Solving: Keep on Trying (33:57)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 26 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...

260. Problem Solving: Acting It Out (22:33)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 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...

261. 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...

262. Predicting: Choosing a Sample (22:28)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 11 from Math Wise a program that teaches mathematics as a means to practical ends. The program shows how math applies to problem-solving in the everyday world and aim to help students to use...

263. Pressure Makes Perfect (22:30)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 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 adolescenc...

264. Perro Pepe en la televisión (34:29)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 26 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 cul...

265. Elements of Drama (22:33)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 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 positi...

266. Leading | Transportation I | Transportation II | Position (1:01:10)

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 th...

271. 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.

272. Playing Where You Are (14:48)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. It's wintertime in the U.S. and Canada, and children are playing everywhere. While children in the north streak down snowy hills on sleds and skis, youngsters along the Sou...

273. 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 colo...

274. Planning a Presentation (Communicating Effectively) (15:45)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 51 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 ...

275. A Tip: You Can Remember (15:20)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 of Thinkabout, a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and r...

276. Perro Pepe tiene Seis Anos (34:10)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 2 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 cul...

278. Inside/Out: Travelin' Shoes (22:41)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Larry Billups has come to the hard decision that he must move his family from the country neighborhood where they have always lived to Washington, D.C. He knows that he needs to make a better livin...

279. Learning & Earning (Investment in Human Capital) (19:42)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 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 sp...

280. Inside/Out: Yes, I Can (22:26)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
At summer camp in the mountains nine-year-old David insists that he is ready to go out on his own for an "overnight." Although the counselors are skeptical and the other campers mildly supportive o...

281. Las flores (34:16)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 14 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 cul...

282. How Will I Grow? (15:02)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Children talk about what it means to be a boy or girl now and what they think it will mean when they grow up. They consider family roles and occupations, and find some disa...

284. Inside/Out: You Belong (22:28)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
"You are a part of all that you see" is the theme of a visual essay that explores the vital connections between human beings and their surroundings. Scenes of city life with high-rise apartments, f...

285. Las formas (34:07)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 28 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 cul...

286. Inside/Out: Can I Help? (22:39)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Lisa's class is on a field trip to a Civil War fort. As the children inspect the fort and the park that surrounds it, forest ranger Bob Kempf describes the strategy of a battle once fought there an...

287. Inside/Out:Just One Place (22:28)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Kevin has always taken the run-down city neighborhood where he lives pretty much for granted. His attitudes start to change, however, when he goes off with his 4-H club on a week-long camping trip ...

288. Inside/Out: Someone Special (34:01)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Remembering what he was like as a boy, David wistfully recalls the crush he had on his teacher, Miss Simpson. "I thought she was the prettiest lady in the world." His fantasies come back to him-how...

289. Inside/Out: I Want To (22:26)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
In an imaginary courtroom scene, Patricia is demanding her rights as a nine-year-old, accusing the rest of the Michaels family of treating her like a baby. Through her friend Bud, who acts as her a...

290. Inside/Out: Just Joking (33:55)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Although David is really more mischievous than malicious, his idea of amusing himself is playing jokes on others. On the morning of the all-school hobby day, he scoffs at the doll clothes his young...

291. Inside/Out: But They Might Laugh (22:39)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Becky and Laura are whispering in class about their ice-skating lessons later that afternoon, but the conversation is interrupted when Becky is called to the board to spell a word. When she makes s...

292. Inside/Out: I Dare You (22:36)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Clarissa, a new girl in the neighborhood, wants to join the "gang." To be accepted as a member, she must carry out a potentially dangerous dare. The gang is also shaken by the potential danger and ...

293. 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 rela...

294. Income Tax and You (18:46)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 1 from Understanding Taxes. Uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.

295. Walk and Run (22:30)

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 th...

296. What's the Meaning? (Giving and Getting Meaning) (33:29)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 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 r...

297. 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 see...

298. Friends (15:11)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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 h...

300. Fractions: Subtracting Mixed Numbers (34:02)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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 dram...