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- Date:
- 1978
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 14 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.
- 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 living for them, although moving means giving up their relatives, old friends, their church, and the pleasures of the water. Stuart, his son, resists the whole idea, and tries to persuade his parents to let him stay behind with his grandfather. His older sister, Kim, can hardly wait to get to the city, where she expects to discover a more exciting kind of life. Did, the youngest child, is a passive observer of the events that surround her. There are mixed, even strained feelings within the Billups family about the coming move, and these are revealed both in open opposition and in quiet uncertainty. The members of the Billups' church gather for a farewell party, and Mrs. Kelly, the pastor of the congregation, tells them that as long as they stay together as a family, they can never really be moved; they will have the security of each other.
- 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 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.
- 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 or openly derisive, David goes ahead doggedly, trying to show everyone that he is now capable of "solo camping." When his parents send their permission, the camp director relents, but imposes some conditions. David, now all the more self-assertive, sets off to prove himself. He is given only three matches to use-the limit for solo campers. After some initial success in finding a site and scavenging for food, he watches his matches die out one by one. The program ends with David's dilemma of whether to stick it out or return to the main camp.
1506. 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 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.
1507. 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 disagreement in their points of view. Are certain jobs only for men or only for women?Can a father take care of a baby the same way a mother can? The program suggests a variety of answers to these and other questions about male and female roles in contemporary life.
- Date:
- 1971
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 11 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Images and Things. Reflects on the relationships between expressive architectural design and religious philosophies and liturgies in a survey of a variety of structures that have been designed as houses of worship.
- Date:
- 1978
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- The series emphasizes communication skills, involvement of the learner, and interacting with others.
- 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, freeway traffic, and urban sprawl are intercut with rural landscapes. A camping experience brings the manifold facets of nature into focus. Throughout the program the intricate balance of environmental elements reveals "...how every living thing borrows from something else." Because everything in creation has its own function, man must learn carefully what to preserve and what to destroy.
1511. 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 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.
- 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 and remarks, "Many men died needlessly because there was no one to help them." This moves Lisa, who says earnestly to her friend Julie, "If I had been there, I would have helped them." A classmate of theirs, Jamie, overhears her and scoffs, "There's a lot of difference between really helping and pretending." The children are given a forty-five minute break, and Jamie rushes off to hunt for artifacts. He scrambles along the edge of a steep cliff to reach for an old watch, but stretches too far and falls over the side, dropping to a ledge and injuring his leg. He calls desperately for help, and Lisa, who is the only person close enough to hear him, first tries to get to him by herself, but then realizing that she herself might fall, runs off to search for someone to help her, although Jamie pleads with her to stay with him. Unable to spot her teacher or the ranger, she runs to a group of houses. She finds no one at the first house; and at the second an angry woman who suspects a prank tells her to go away. Finally, she sees a man at work in his yard and frantically begs him to come with her. They arrive just as Jamie is being brought up from the ledge on a litter. While Lisa has been out looking for help, her friend Julie has alerted the forest ranger that she and Jamie have strayed off from the rest of the class, and it is he who has discovered Jamie and worked out a rescue. As Jamie is carried up past Lisa, he asks her, "Why did you run away? Why didn't you help me?" She answers plaintively, "But I did help you ... I did everything I could to help you."
- 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 in the country. For the first time in his life he encounters the unspoiled beauty of green open fields, clear streams, and wild flowers. The experience moves him to think about his own environment, and he talks it over with Jimmi, the club's adult leader, who tells him that the easiest way to make the city better is to find "just one place" and make it beautiful. Kevin follows the advice and starts looking for that one place. He finds some children who are working together to clean up a lot, and they tell him that they're going to plant a garden so that they can raise and sell vegetables in the fall. Kevin decides to help them out, and one of the girls, Marinda, shows him how to plant seeds. Later in the summer the garden has become a reality. Kevin is intensely proud of the accomplishment, and Jimmi is an admiring observer of the project. But Kevin's fortunes change suddenly, when one night some older boys, messing around on their way home, run through the garden and thoughtlessly tear it up. The children discover the mischief the next day and, angered and depressed by the senseless destruction of something they've worked long and hard to create, Kevin and Marinda talk over with Jimmi whether it's really worth the effort to try again next year.
- 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 he would prove himself a hero in her eyes by winning races and saving her from a mugger. There were furtive phone calls and bicycle rides past her house, even a ruse about selling raffle tickets. As a nine-year-old, David dreams that Miss Simpson has fallen in love with him, but when he confesses his feelings to his best friend, he learns that she is engaged. His classmates tease him on the playground, until he works up the courage to ask her if she likes him more than anyone else in the class. He catches her at the wrong moment after school when she is hurrying to finish up her work. She tells him rather curtly that no, she likes all of her students just the same. But David hears only that he has been rejected and goes away hurt. From then on his conduct changes radically: he picks fights when he is teased and "stops being good and starts causing trouble" to win Miss Simpson's attention. One day after school he rushes into the empty classroom and begins to gash "I hate you" on her desk. The principal catches him in the act, and afterwards in the school office, Miss Simpson tries to help him gain a greater understanding of what they both have experienced.
- 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 advocate, she tries to prove that she is old enough to take on more and greater responsibilities. Her parents, her older sister Joan, and her brothers Tony and Kevin dispute her claims, through their own advocate, Elvira Smith, asserting that she isn't ready yet to do all the things she wants to do. The court, presided over by a friendly grocer, proceeds to hear both sides of the case, examining a series of witnesses to determine who is in the right Patty tells of trying to do the family wash as a birthday surprise for her mother and being scolded because things went awry; of not being allowed to go to the movies by herself because it might be too dangerous; and of being assigned trivial jobs by her parents. The other family members take the stand to explain their attitudes, pointing out Patty's shortcomings and admit.ting some of their own. The case ends in confusion when supporters of both sides start milling around the bench. A TV announcer for the program "You Wanted It," which is presenting the trial, leaves the verdict to the viewing audience.
- 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 younger sister Sandy has made to show to her class, and she gets back at him with a prank that spoils his breakfast. Their mother scolds her, cautioning that "jokes are all right if they don't hurt anybody." David rushes off to school without breakfast and along the way teases a girl by grabbing a package from her and running off with it. During the course of the day he tricks a candy store clerk, snatches away a classmate's glasses, and puts a sticky sign on another student's desk seat. There is a turn of events when David gets up before the class to discuss his own hobby and show a model airplane. So far David hasn't learned that what seems funny to him isn't very funny to anyone else. Suddenly, as he looks into his package, he imagines vividly what might have happened if each of his jokes had turned out differently. When his daydream is over, David discovers that although he's been the joker, someone else has had the last laugh.
- 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 several false starts, the other children laugh at her mistakes, and she gives up in frustration. Although Laura offers encouragement, Becky grumbles that she can't do anything when anyone laughs at her. At the skating rink Becky struggles to keep her balance, but takes one tumble after another. When her classmates again laugh at her, she quits and goes off to the side, where her teacher, Mrs. Johnson, urges her to keep trying. The children ask their teacher to join them on the ice, but she begs off, promising to skate with them the next day. On her way to school the next morning, Becky, knowing that she will have to try to skate again that afternoon, bandages her knee to feign an injury and limps into class late. Mrs. Johnson announces that she won't be able to go skating after all, because she has to attend an important meeting. After school she tries to leave without being seen by any of the children, but encounters Becky, who now has no trouble running. Mrs. Johnson confesses that she had lied to the children about having to go to a meeting and admits that she didn't want to go skating because she was afraid of falling down and making a fool of herself. When Becky discovers that her teacher is also afraid of being laughed at, she and Mrs. Johnson decide to go together to the skating rink. Moving uncertainly, the teacher edges along the ice while Becky watches anxiously from the side. Mrs. Johnson loses her balance and takes a tumble, but her students encourage her to try again. Becky nervously twists the laces of her skates, unable to decide what she should do now.
- 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 debates whether the dare is necessary and how hard it should be. In a series of flashbacks each child recounts this particular dare. Yes, Clarissa must accept the dare to join the gang; her trial will come later in the day. Torn between a desire for social acceptance and a concern for her safety, Clarissa fantasizes many of the possible consequences of taking the dare and argues with herself about whether membership in the group is worth the risk. When the moment of decision arrives, she is urged on by the gang, who shout fiercely, "Go! Go! Go!" As the tension reaches its highest point the program ends .... What has Clarissa decided to do? (with captions)
1519. 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 relax and learn to "feel" with their eyes.Then they learn to concentrate on what they see by actually trying to become ladies and gentlemen in Eighteenth Century portraits,people and shapes in an emotional scene,and even the shapes and sounds in a "noisy"Twentieth Century abstract.
- Date:
- unknown/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.
1521. 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 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 seeking out other people and sharing feelings, as an appropriate strategy for dealing with serious problems.
1524. 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 hard job, teaching somebody something that he wants to know. They also think about not being friends and the way it feels when somebody's "just plain mean." How to make a new friend, whether one always needs a friend to have fun, and whether grown-ups can be friends are other ideas explored.
- Date:
- 1976
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Measure Metric.
- 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 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.
- Date:
- 1985
- Main contributors:
- Agency For Instructional Technology
- Summary:
- Unit 10 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series Principles of Technology. Examines the physics of energy convertors as applied in mechanical, fluid and electrical systems.
1528. I Found It (15:52)
- Date:
- 1970
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- From the series Ripples. Susie, Laura, Jennifer and Yvonne, out for aSaturday walk,are invited by an artist neighbor to visit her "secret tower" studio.They are surprised to find beautiful art objects made from materials the artist saved or found accidentally. The children set out themselves to find useful "junk" for their own creations. After an unusual walk, the girls return to the studio to create fresh new faces from what would seem to be stale old materials.
- Date:
- 1996
- Main contributors:
- Agency For Instructional Technology
- Summary:
- Program 1 of Looking From The Inside/Out series explores the emotion of confusion and shows how effective communication skills can alleviate confusion.
- Date:
- 1973
- Main contributors:
- Agency for Instructional Television
- Summary:
- It's a mighty good day for showing how you feel, and Nick, Brice, and Richard do just that. As the three friends leave a playground, they are jumped by older boys who wrestle two of them to the ground and take their money. Nick expresses his anger through shouting,kicking boxes, and breaking old bottles, while Brice is passive, quietly keeping his feelings to himself. Richard remains fairly even-tempered. As the afternoon progresses the boys express anger, fear, enthusiasm, and guilt as they play baseball, walk through a cemetery, and snitch a piece of chocolate cake at Richard's house. Each shows his feelings in his own way. In an off-hand manner Richard asks Brice whether or not he's going to tell his parents about the bullies. Brice replies that he doesn't say much to his parents. Richard asks in some amazement, "How come you don't say what you feel and think?" Brice answers, "I don't know. Does it matter?"
- Date:
- 1990
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Promotional overview 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.
- Date:
- 1979
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 59 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.
1533. Handy Hands (22:37)
- Date:
- 1974
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 16 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, and psychology.
- Date:
- 1978
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 6 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.
- Date:
- 1978
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 9 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.
- Date:
- 1990
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 3 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.
- Date:
- 1979
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 36 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.
1538. Your Busy Brain (22:27)
- Date:
- 1974
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 14 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, and psychology.
- Date:
- 1982
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 12 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.
- 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 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.
- Date:
- 1978
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 3 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.
- Date:
- 1979
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 46 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.
- Date:
- 1979
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- Episode 35 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.
- Date:
- 1984
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- 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.
1545. About Tax Whys (19:07)
- Date:
- 1984
- Main contributors:
- Agency For Instructional Technology
- Summary:
- 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.
- Date:
- 1987
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- 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.
- Date:
- 1982
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- 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.
- Date:
- 1973
- Main contributors:
- Agency for Instructional Television
- Summary:
- 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.
- Date:
- 1979
- Main contributors:
- National Instructional Television
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.