5921. Comparing: Percent (22:33)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 4 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 Leona wants to spend a large chunk of money on a knockout dress for the upcoming prom. The others in her family insist that she think of a simpler solution, one that will fit her yearly budget. This leads to an obvious question: what kind of dress can Leona afford to buy? Maybe Leona's brother can muster an alternative.

5923. Dreams and Fantasy (22:08)

Date:
1971
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 29 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Images and Things. Explores the imaginative ways in which art is used to depict the inner world of man, awake or asleep.

5924. An Eye for Change (22:33)

Date:
1976
Main contributors:
Agency for Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 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 pressure. In this episode teacher Trudy Bowman must deal with the question of what might be reasonable changes for her to make in her teaching methods. As her American history class is videotaped for evaluation by the social science faculty, she realizes that although she supports the principal's plan for professional development intellectually, emotionally she does not.

5925. Africa-South of the Sahara: How Do People Use Their Environment? (34:02)

Date:
1988
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 8 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 Geographers, the American Geographical Society, and the National Geographic Society. Intended for grades 6-9.

5926. Decimals: Relating fractions and decimals (16:47)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 8 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 programs emphasizes the application of math skills and problem solving strategies. I features dramatic vignettes involving fifth graders solving math problems that relate to their everyday lives and documentary-style illustrations of people who use math as a normal part of their profession.

5927. Creating Theater (22:43)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 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.

5929. Changing Your Looks (22:13)

Date:
1971
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 27 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Images and Things. Shows various ways and reasons why people in different times and cultures have used body decoration and adornment to change their looks.

5931. Connection | Measure and Metrics | Communication (1:02:43)

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.

5932. About Trade-Offs (13:21)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Promotional overview 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.

5933. Blue Moose and Return of the Moose (34:10)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 of Readit. Host John Robbins introduces two stories by Daniel M. Pinkwater about a blue moose. In the first story, the moose moves in with a man who runs a restaurant and becomes the head waiter. In the second story, the moose turns life upside down by writing a best seller. Designed to encourage students to read the books.

5934. Communicating in Science (34:01)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 12 from the Agency for Instructional Television series WhatAbout. The programs are grouped according to like skills required for initiating a scientific investigation, collecting data, analyzing, interpreting, experimenting and communicating the results.

5935. Animals I | Animals II | Serendipity | Nature (1:01:18)

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.

5936. A Challenge: Time Capsule: Make a Present for the Future (15:34)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 15 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.

5937. Decimals: Place value in decimals (16:45)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 4 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 programs emphasizes the application of math skills and problem solving strategies. I features dramatic vignettes involving fifth graders solving math problems that relate to their everyday lives and documentary-style illustrations of people who use math as a normal part of their profession.

5938. Elements of the Visual Arts (20:29)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 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.

5939. Estimation: Estimation Strategies for Division (32:53)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 14 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.

5940. Elements of Dance (22:34)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 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.