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Episode 11 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg visits several Rocky Mountain mining sites, discussing surface and underground operations. Shows an open-pit molybdenum mine, milling, tailing ponds, and land reclamation. Highlights early gold and silver booms through dramatic vignettes showing the roles played by Horace Greeley and H.A.W. Taylor.
Episode 3 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Describes with humorous results what would happen if transistors, vacuum tubes, Thomas Edison, wheels, petroleum, and the industrial and agricultural revolutions were taken away. Viewers see how things worked in the age of the first toolmakers and learn about the effect of today's technology on their lives.
Episode 2 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Focuses on the decisions individuals must make regarding the use of modern technology for the good of society and themselves. Cites the examples of the refusal of the United States to build a commercial, supersonic plane and the controversial applications of the knowledge about DNA.
Episode 2 in the sub series "Essential Elements" from the program Every Child Can Succeed. Profiles several outstanding elementary school principals who consider the academic achievement for every child as the mission of their schools. To reach the goal, they create an environment which encourages learning and inspires teachers. Demonstrates that a strong instructional leadership is the key to a highly successful school.
Episode 12 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg introduces the national park system, focusing on Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde. Presents historical reenactments portraying Theodore Roosevelt, John Burroughs, and John Wesley Powell. Examines the Anasazi Indian culture.
Episode 3 in the sub series "Essential Elements" from the program Every Child Can Succeed. Shows how strong, effective leaders support teachers, take risks and monitor all school activities.
Episode 6 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Provides viewers with an insight into modern-day wheat farming on both irrigated and dry land in the Great Plains. Shows cultivating the soil, planting seed, harvesting the kernels, and marketing the crop. Highlights the history of the area by showing a sod house and shed, prairie grass, a one-room school, a windmill, and other aspects of prairie life. Hosted by John Rugg.
Episode 5 in the sub series "Essential Elements" from the program Every Child Can Succeed. Describes the parental role in bringing about change in schools, and the role that parent involvement has in enhancing chances for success.
Episode 10 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Discusses the growth of population before and after industrialization and the relation between the two events. Also describes how technologies of medicine, nutrition, and hygiene have increased the rate of population growth.
Episode 9 from the Agency for Instructional Technology series You, Me, and Technology. Provides a general description of the comparative technology of China and the West in the fifteenth and nineteenth century. It also compares differences in the response of Chinese and Japanese societies to Western technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
