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Episode 4 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from Germany about two hungry, helpless children who use their wits to defeat a nearsighted witch. Includes music and sound effects combined with illustrations by Rae Owings.
Orientation to Tax Whys a program that uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.
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.
Episode 12 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces the story by Joyce Rockwood about a Cherokee boy, who goes alone to rescue his unusual mare, Midnight, from the Cherokees who stole her. Designed to encourage students to read the book.
Amador and his family are moving from Puerto Rico to Washington, D.C., and his parents have sent him on ahead by plane to stay with his Aunt Rosa and Uncle Roberto. When he arrives at their apartment, he looks out on the new and strange city streets, noisy with traffic and walled in by buildings, so unlike the neighborhood he knows at home. Three weeks later Amador, ill-at-ease and unhappy, is moping around the apartment when his uncle appears with a present for him-a new baseball glove. Uncle Roberto tells him that he must take it outdoors so that he can find some boys to play with and make some new friends. He finds a game in progress and watches from the sidelines until a fly ball comes his way and he catches it. This annoys the other boys, and they start toward Amador, expecting some sort of explanation. Confused by their manner, Amador blurts out "I can play" in Spanish, but fears that the boys are out to get him and runs away from them, dropping his mitt on the field. One of the boys, Peter, who speaks some Spanish, picks it up and explains to the others that Amador only wants to play with them, and then runs after Amador to return the mitt. Meanwhile Amador has come to a bridge where he stops to look down into the stream below. He goes down to the creek and begins to wade into the water until a mounted policeman tells him to get out of the polluted creek. Confused and frightened, he clutches his shoes and runs off barefoot to find his way back to the apartment. He catches sight of Peter running toward him and speeds up, afraid of what might happen to him. He reaches the safety of the apartment, where Peter leaves the mitt for him. Watching from inside, Amador seems to understand at last that the boys have really meant him no harm.
Episode 16 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.
Program A from Understanding Taxes. Uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.
Episode 6 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.
Lesson 13 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 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.
Episode 11 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Examines the pace of cultural exchange in various societies. Contrasts the rapid absorption of western influences in Japanese society to the slower pace of cultural exchange in Baoulé life in West Africa and to the actual resistance of the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico to most attempts to change their life-style. 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.
Episode 1 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 a story about a junior high school student who wants to persuade her principal to reinstate noon dances. A nondramatic segment presents feature writer Doug Brown explaining why newspapers regularly survey readers' interests and expectations.
Episode 2 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 6 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces two stories by Edward Packard in which the reader makes decisions at many turning points, each of which can change the plot. In the first story, the reader can have several different adventures in the Old West. In the second story, the reader is given choices to make determining the course of a spaceship and the safety of its crew. Designed to encourage students to read the books.
Episode 7 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.
Episode 11 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 Carl learns about computers the hard way when he joins a record club with a computerized mailing list.
Episode 21 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.
Episode 13 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Makes the point that people and cultures operate on the assumption that they will have a future. Looks at what this means to the peoples in three societies: the Japanese, the Baoulé village people in West Africa, and the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico. 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.
