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15251. How honest are you? (14:16)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Bob returns to the basketball locker room for the whistle needed in practice. Don sees Bob searching Ben's pockets and tells the gang that Bob is a thief. At skill practice Coach Barker, in questioning the boys, brings them to realize that jumping at conclusions is dangerous, and that good intentions are not the same as truth.

15252. How to Observe (11:07)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
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Summary:
Stresses that observation is basic to learning the sciences and the arts by showing a boy observing an old house, an example of capillary action, and a science experiment. Emphasizes the importance of the tools of observation--being alert, being interested, and asking questions.

15253. Importance of goals (17:32)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Designed to be used with an educational psychology text. Shows, through the story of Tommy, the importance of goals in learning. His natural curiosity thwarted in school, he seems bored. By contrast, he readily learns to gain recognition, to overcome jealousy, and to keep his small newspaper business flourishing because there are definite goals involved. His teacher finally realizes what has been missing in the classroom.

15254. Indiana, Our Indiana (22:32)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
An Indiana University student shows a prospective student's parents the campus and explains the counseling system. Includes academic and extracurricular activities, the extension centers, and many buildings on the campus.

15255. Indiana, our Indiana (22:23)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
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Summary:
An Indiana University student shows a prospective student's parents the campus and explains the counseling system. Includes academic and extracurricular activities, the extension centers, and many buildings on the Bloomington campus.

15256. Individual differences (23:35)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Explains that individual differences must be recognized and emphasize the importance of shaping education to meet the needs of the pupils.

15257. Introduction to student teaching (18:42)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Dramatizes the experiences of three beginning student teachers. Suggests getting well acquainted with the school, its personnel, and its policies; becoming accustomed to handling routine classroom matters; becoming familiar with a wide variety of instructional materials, their preparation, and their use; and learning as much as possible about the pupils.

15258. Introduction to the art of figure skating (10:41)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Barbara Ann Scott demonstrates the fundamentals of figure-skating. Discusses edges and basic figures and analyzes a number of complex turns. The skater also demonstrates free skating.

15259. It takes all kinds (19:11)

Date:
1950
Summary:
Designed to be used with a marriage text. Emphasizes that marriage partners must complement each other and that traits of personality appear in moments of stress, and pictures a series of young people reacting in a moment of stress. Points out the different types; then shows these same people in situations involving a member of the opposite sex. Analyzes personality traits in regard to mate selection and circumstances of successful marriage.

15260. Italian children (harvest time in Umbria) (10:51)

Date:
1950
Main contributors:
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Joseph G. Fucilla
Summary:
Pictures the Conti family during harvest time in Umbria. They harvest olives, sort them, and take them to the mill for extraction of the oil. On a trip to the market they see the monastery of St. Francis of Assisi, and they later celebrate the harvest with a feast.