5941. Does it pay? (Investment in Capital Goods) (22:38)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 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.

5942. Face to Face (Dealing with Conflict) (15:26)

Date:
1980
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 1 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 work of adolescence-reaching maturity through social and personal growth. The twelve programs dramatize common teenage concerns like love, stress, conflict. and changing re­lationships with family and friends. The problem situations stimulate reflection and discussion about alternative courses of action for different individuals: the many approaches to problems, the many solutions.

5943. Down and Back (22:27)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 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 adolescence. It aims at helping 11- to 13-year-olds cope with the physical, social, and emotional changes they are experiencing. Self Incorporated was created under the management of the Agency for Instructional Television through the resources of a consortium of 42 state and provincial educational and broadcasting agencies, with additional assistance from Exxon Corporation.

5944. Estimating: Other estimation strategies (22:32)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 19 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.

5945. El sueno de Perro Pepe (34:14)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 8 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.

5946. Everybody Needs a Friend (22:36)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 29 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.

5947. Estimation: Estimation Strategies for Multiplication (33:58)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 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.

5948. Choosing Change (Freedom to Hope, to Choose, and to Change) (34:18)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 15 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.

5949. Decimals: Understanding the placement of the decimal point (34:10)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 24 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.

5950. Decisions, Decisions (Decision Making) (22:29)

Date:
1974
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 4 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.

5951. Different Folks (22:25)

Date:
1975
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 9 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 adolescence. It aims at helping 11- to 13-year-olds cope with the physical, social, and emotional changes they are experiencing. Self Incorporated was created under the management of the Agency for Instructional Television through the resources of a consortium of 42 state and provincial educational and broadcasting agencies, with additional assistance from Exxon Corporation.

5952. Donde esta el perro? (34:20)

Date:
1990
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 24 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.

5953. Creating Dance (22:32)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 5 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.

5954. Behind the Scenes (Accepting Feelings) (15:37)

Date:
1980
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 10 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 work of adolescence-reaching maturity through social and personal growth. The twelve programs dramatize common teenage concerns like love, stress, conflict. and changing re­lationships with family and friends. The problem situations stimulate reflection and discussion about alternative courses of action for different individuals: the many approaches to problems, the many solutions.

5955. Cultural Patterns (Finding Patterns) (15:34)

Date:
1979
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 26 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.

5956. Decimals: Comparing decimals (18:09)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Lesson 15 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.

5957. Breaking Down a Topic (34:01)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 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 story about two junior high school students who have trouble with a school report because they haven't organized it properly. A nondramatic segment presents Carl Smith, a textbook writer, who tells how he uses subtopics to guide his research and writing.

5958. Building On Your Work (20:47)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 11 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 stories showing how students can revise their written work and make improvements. A nondramatic segment presents television scriptwriter Thom Eberhardt, who shows how revisions can improve a script's substance and style.

5959. Animals (22:35)

Date:
1984
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 13 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 Al, Beth, and Carl visit the zoo in hopes of finding a project for their school's Awareness Week. Instead, they decide to study the passenger pigeon as a symbol of all endangered species.

5960. Changes (Sadness) (33:09)

Date:
1996
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Technology
Summary:
Program 13 of Looking From The Inside/Out series discusses what makes us sad and how it feels to be sad. Stimulates thinking about healthy ways to deal with sadness. Promotes individual initiative as a basic strategy for dealing effectively with sadness.