1561. 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.

1562. 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.

1563. 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.

1564. 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.

1565. 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.

1566. 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.

1568. 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.

1569. 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.

1570. 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.

1571. 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.

1572. 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.

1573. 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.

1574. 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.

1575. 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.

1576. 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.

1577. 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.

1578. 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.

1579. 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.

1580. 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.