Start Over Unit IUL Moving Image Archive

401. Income Tax and You (17:45)

Date:
1993
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Program A from Understanding Taxes. Uses dramatizations to highlight teenagers' firsthand experiences with the effects of taxation and to explain the reasons for taxes.

402. Good Practice Today! (Refusal Skills) (34:07)

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

403. Vamos al cine (34:13)

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

404. Give Us a Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole (34:18)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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. Peopl...

405. We Choose: Scarcity & Social Decision Making (22:23)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

406. Going to the Hospital (16:17)

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

407. Cultural Exchange (33:39)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
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 Ja...

408. Consider Your Audience (34:08)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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...

409. Daddy's Girl (Changing Family Relationships) (15:22)

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

410. Deadwood City and The Third Planet from Altair (34:20)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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, th...

411. Creating Music (22:44)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
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 positi...

412. Computers (22:34)

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

413. Classifying Information (Classifying) (15:53)

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

414. Choices for the Future (35:44)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
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 mea...

415. Creditwise: Opportunity Cost (22:36)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

416. Changing Taxes: Public Goods & Services (22:37)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

417. But, What Does it Mean? (Giving and Getting Meaning) (16:03)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 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 ...

418. By Train or Plane (34:10)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg discusses the history of American rail transport, including the first transcontinental railroad, the gr...

419. Charles Rice Learning Center: An Oasis in South Dallas (31:17)

Date:
1992
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Episode 4 in the sub series "Successful Schools" from the program Every Child Can Succeed, a series of video programs with facilitators' guides that are designed to show schools how to help disadva...

421. Changes (Physiological Changes) (22:29)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 14 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 adolescen...

422. Blockbusting (Finding Alternatives) (15:43)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 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...

423. Cattle Country (34:08)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg explores the raising of beef cattle in eastern New Mexico and Texas. A Spanish rancho, an early Texas ...

424. Buen viaje, Señorita Fernández (34:13)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 18 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...

425. Caliph Stork (Iraq) (33:43)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 13 from the AIT series Teletales. Storyteller Paul Lally tells a tale from Iraq about the caliph of Bagdad, who finds himself trapped in the body of a stork. Only the evil magician with des...

426. Education (34:20)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 of the Agency for Instructional Television series Across Cultures. Examines the importance of education to all societies and shows what the educational system is like for Mexico's Tarahum...

427. Arts and Technology (22:36)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 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 posit...

428. Body Talk (15:13)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Fingers, hands, feet. faces and bodies "talk"about how a person feels. Norma Canner and a group of children explore body talk for"I'm afraid," "I'm glad you're here," "I'm ...

429. Cartoon Faces (34:07)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 24 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Drawing with Paul Ringler.

430. Inside/Out: Jeff's Company (22:26)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Jeff's home is in the mountain country of the West. An only child, he is separated by long distances from his schoolmates, and his life on his parents' ranch is often solitary. Chores around the ra...

431. Approximating (Estimating and Approximating) (15:45)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 6 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...

432. Balancing a Picture (34:02)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 15 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Drawing with Paul Ringler.

434. Inside/Out: Can Do/Can't Do (22:26)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Dotty and her friend Betty are practicing somersaults, but Betty can't quite get the hang of it. Dotty's older sister, Bernie, joins them to show the girls how the stunt should be done. Dotty resen...

435. Inside/Out: In My Memory (22:30)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Linda comes home from school to find her parents saddened and subdued. They tell her that her grandmother, who had suffered a stroke, had died during the day. Throughout the next few days Linda exp...

436. El regalo de Lu (33:55)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 9 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 cult...

437. El cocinero (34:17)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 25 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...

438. Hands (15:19)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. A horse's hard hoof, a cat's skillful claw, a bear's heavy padded paw and the hand of man are shown to be similar in some way.But a man's hand is shown to be different in a...

439. V-62 Independence (1:04:10)

Date:
19XX
Main contributors:
U.S. Park Service Department of the Interior
Summary:
Source material used for the Agency for Instructional Technology series Geography in U.S. history : illuminating the geographic dimensions of our nation's development.

440. In the Beginning (22:46)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 19 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...

441. Environment (22:31)

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

442. 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 th...

443. 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 adolescen...

444. 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 drama...

445. 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 ...

446. 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 app...

447. 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 progr...

449. 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.

451. 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 ...

452. 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 r...

453. 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.

454. 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 ...

455. 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 progra...

456. 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...

457. 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 alway...

459. 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 Capt...

460. 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 Geograph...

461. 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 th...

462. The Parent Crunch (22:24)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 from the Agency for Instructional Television series The Heart of Teaching. Dramatizations are designed to help teachers deal with problems - frustration, anger, isolation, change and pres...

463. What's Wrong with Jonathan? (22:25)

Date:
unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
Episode 10 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 adolescen...

464. El gran secreto de Perro Pepe (34:22)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 5 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 cult...

466. Geometry and Measurement: Measuring Angles (33:57)

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

467. Predicting: Averages (22:23)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 12 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...

468. Measurement: Finding Areas of Rectangles (34:25)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 1 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...

469. The Write Channel, episodes 5-8 (1:02:00)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
The Write Channel is a series of fifteen lessons designed to help teach sentence combining techniques to third and fourth graders. Features animated character R.B. Bugg, a reporter for WORD TV, who...

470. Dad and I (22:40)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Steve and his dad enjoy an autumn after-noon of fishing at historic Bull Run in Virginia. Secrets of the ancient sport pass pleasantly from father to son as Steve learns to...

471. Touching The World (14:26)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. Norma Canner and a group of children explore feelings through their fingers, toes and skin. Children experiment with things in the classroom and outdoors such things as cri...

472. Measuring: Measuring Instruments (22:32)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 1 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 ...

473. Less and More (Increasing Productivity) (20:25)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 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...

474. My Robot Buddy and My Trip to Alpha I (33:08)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces two stories by Alfred Slote about a young boy and his robot buddy. In the first story, the boy asks for a robot for his tenth birth so he will have...

476. Last Hour Clash (22:46)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 from the Agency for Instructional Television series The Heart of Teaching. Dramatizations are designed to help teachers deal with problems - frustration, anger, isolation, change and pres...