321. Using Division (22:53)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child gets caught in the problem that does not come out successfully, but experience proves the best teacher. Capsizing the information taught in each program is a cartoon sequence. These cartoons provide previews of what follows from a live-action sequence. The content of It Figures was developed by a consortium of 31 state and provincial education agencies. Managing the project were Ed Cohen and the late Larry Walcoff. Individual programs were produced by Larry Wood Productions (in the facilities of KLVX in Las Vegas), the Illinois State Board of Education, New Jersey Network (NJN), KLCS in Los Angeles, Maryland Instructional Television and South Carolina ETV.

322. Using Multiplication and Addition (22:36)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 13 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child gets caught in the problem that does not come out successfully, but experience proves the best teacher. Capsizing the information taught in each program is a cartoon sequence. These cartoons provide previews of what follows from a live-action sequence. The content of It Figures was developed by a consortium of 31 state and provincial education agencies. Managing the project were Ed Cohen and the late Larry Walcoff. Individual programs were produced by Larry Wood Productions (in the facilities of KLVX in Las Vegas), the Illinois State Board of Education, New Jersey Network (NJN), KLCS in Los Angeles, Maryland Instructional Television and South Carolina ETV.

323. Problem Solving: Many Ways to Go (22:45)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 27 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child gets caught in the problem that does not come out successfully, but experience proves the best teacher. Capsizing the information taught in each program is a cartoon sequence. These cartoons provide previews of what follows from a live-action sequence. The content of It Figures was developed by a consortium of 31 state and provincial education agencies. Managing the project were Ed Cohen and the late Larry Walcoff. Individual programs were produced by Larry Wood Productions (in the facilities of KLVX in Las Vegas), the Illinois State Board of Education, New Jersey Network (NJN), KLCS in Los Angeles, Maryland Instructional Television and South Carolina ETV.

324. Relating Fractions and Decimals (22:50)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 14 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child gets caught in the problem that does not come out successfully, but experience proves the best teacher. Capsizing the information taught in each program is a cartoon sequence. These cartoons provide previews of what follows from a live-action sequence. The content of It Figures was developed by a consortium of 31 state and provincial education agencies. Managing the project were Ed Cohen and the late Larry Walcoff. Individual programs were produced by Larry Wood Productions (in the facilities of KLVX in Las Vegas), the Illinois State Board of Education, New Jersey Network (NJN), KLCS in Los Angeles, Maryland Instructional Television and South Carolina ETV.

325. Estimating When Dividing (22:49)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 22 of It Figures, a 28-part mathematics series for fourth graders. Each episode introduces real-life situations involving math concepts that can, at times, prove difficult. Often a child gets caught in the problem that does not come out successfully, but experience proves the best teacher. Capsizing the information taught in each program is a cartoon sequence. These cartoons provide previews of what follows from a live-action sequence. The content of It Figures was developed by a consortium of 31 state and provincial education agencies. Managing the project were Ed Cohen and the late Larry Walcoff. Individual programs were produced by Larry Wood Productions (in the facilities of KLVX in Las Vegas), the Illinois State Board of Education, New Jersey Network (NJN), KLCS in Los Angeles, Maryland Instructional Television and South Carolina ETV.

326. To Buy or Not to Buy (Buyers and Market Demand) (22:35)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 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.

328. Special Report: National Immunization Program (21:15)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
This film was made as a promotion for the Swine Flu Immunization Program of 1976, and can be useful as a tool for study of governmental public relations.

329. 55 To Get Ready (15:16)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. It seems easy to get on a plane and fly somewhere, but it takes about 55 people to get a jet ready to fly. Each has his own job handling baggage, fueling, preparing and storing food, checking weather and maps,servicing the aircraft. Some important people you don't usually see are maintenance men,meteorologists at the weather station, and controllers in the tower. All these people and more work together so passengers can travel safely and comfortably by jet.

330. Animals Need You (15:39)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. What do you do if you run the zoo and your elephant gets sick? What will you feed the tiger in your zoo who would kill a deer for his dinner if he lived in the forest? What sort of home must you find to make a hippopotamus comfortable? Who should raise the baby tiger when its own mother cannot care for it? These and other questions about man's care of animals are explored on an unusual visit to the National Zoological Parkin Washington, D.C.

331. Out To The Moon (15:19)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. This program is paired with GOING HOME TO EARTH. John Bannister of NASA brings a real space suit and a small rocket model to a classroom where children are making and using their own equipment for dramatic play about going to the moon. NASA films, simulation and models help explain in simple terms such fascinating things as survival needs(food, water, air), rocket stages, weightless-ness and moon landing.

332. Fire! (15:30)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
From the series Ripples. A rookie fire fighter learns about handling a pumper and hose with models in a training class. He advances to a real drill with real equipment and real teamwork. Suddenly his company is called to a fire. All their practice helps them meet the crisis of a hose break at the fire. The rookie succeeds as part of the team.

333. Stereotyping People (Classifying) (22:35)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 22 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.

334. Inside/Out: Must I/May I (22:23)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
In interwoven stories Debbie and Bobby must each deal with situations that try their growing sense of independence. Debbie is supposed to look after her younger cousins and get them safely to a day care center. Overwhelmed by the task of minding the children and being responsible for general housekeeping and cooking at home, she is distracted by other things she would rather be doing. Bobby, unlike her, has been given too little responsibility for his own actions. His mother constantly fusses over him and fails to let him do things for himself. Eventually he gets his chance when he is given a package to deliver. How the children resolve their separate problems is left for classroom discussion. The emotions they feel as they work through their problems are clearly expressed.

335. I Agree...You're Wrong! (Interpersonal Skills) (22:25)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 from Bread and Butterflies, a project in career development for nine-to-twelve-year-olds. Based on two years of planning by educators and broadcasters, the project included 15-minute color television programs, a comprehensive Curriculum Guide, and in-service teacher's program, and international program, and workshop materials. Bread and Butterflies was created under the supervision of the Agency for Instructional Television, through the resources of a consortium of thirty-four educational and broadcasting agencies with assistance from Exxon Corporation.

336. How To Watch Soccer (25:43)

Date:
unknown/unknown
Main contributors:
Unknown
Summary:
Points out some of the key areas that the layman may overlook if he's new to the sport of soccer. Interviews fans who tell why they have been "turned-on" to soccer. Includes a glossery of soccer terms.

337. In Harm's Way (Fear) (34:37)

Date:
1996
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Program 9 of Looking From The Inside/Out series discusses how it feels to be scared. Shows how to handle fears rooted in the imagination. Promotes decision making skills (identifying fears, solutions, and consequences) as an appropriate way to cope with real and imagined fears.

338. Iwo Jima (03:27)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
United States Marine Corps, War Finance Department of the U.S. Treasury Department
Summary:

339. Locating and Interpreting: Maps, Charts, and Tables (22:27)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 9 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 math skills in their own lives. Los Angeles television personality Stephanie Edwards is the program's host. In this episode Cynthia accepts a sailing challenge from her old nemesis. At the insistence of a sea captain, Cynthia charts out the proposed race route and the tide tables. Thus she plots a few sailing smarts to win the race.

340. Thanks, But No Thanks (Peer Pressure) (16:53)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 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.