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Download full textEducational Film Center, Springfield, VA. – 1982
Designed to help teachers to use the educational television series POWERHOUSE with young people (8 to 12 year olds), this kit presents activities coordinated with the 16 half-hour programs in the series. The POWERHOUSE shows cover comprehensive health and nutrition topics in an action-adventure format for intermediate students in grades 4-6.…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Educational Television, Elementary Education, Health Education
Peer reviewedSocial Education, 1992
Presents a poster for classroom use backed by a teacher's guide to be used in conjunction with the Public Broadcasting Service's six-part series "Space Age." Lists major concepts explored in each program. Includes questions for classroom discussion. Suggests classroom activities to accompany the lessons from the television programs. (DK)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Television, Futures (of Society), Instructional Materials
KIDSNET, Washington, DC. – 2000
"Same Difference," the television program featured in this videotape and teaching guide, tells the story of a friendship that blossoms into love between Shelley and Vinnie, a young couple with different ethnic and religious backgrounds, Jewish and Italian Catholic. Despite family opposition and personal difficulties, the spirit of…
Descriptors: Catholics, Critical Viewing, Cultural Context, Curriculum Enrichment
2000
"Crosstown," the television program featured in this videotape and teaching guide, depicts a teenager who is forced, due to her father's lack of child support payments, to leave her comfortable home four years after her parents' divorce and to move across town to an apartment in an inner city neighborhood. The teenager decides not to be…
Descriptors: Critical Viewing, Curriculum Enrichment, Daily Living Skills, Educational Television
2001
"Boys Will Be Boys," the television program featured in this videotape and teaching guide, explores the turmoil experienced by a young woman, a high school sophomore, who becomes the victim of sexual harassment at school. The program can be a springboard for discussing the larger issues of sexual harassment and women's rights today and…
Descriptors: Critical Viewing, Curriculum Enrichment, Daily Living Skills, Educational Television
KIDSNET, Washington, DC. – 2001
"The Writing on the Wall," the television program featured in this videotape and teaching guide, focuses on three suburban teenagers who deface with anti-Semitic graffiti, the property of a rabbi, a holocaust survivor, and the Jewish community center and synagogue. The teenagers, tried and convicted, are spared a harsh sentence when the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Anti Semitism, Critical Viewing, Curriculum Enrichment
National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C. – 1997
This multimedia environmental project aims to raise public awareness about the environmental and economic benefits of recently developed green technologies designed to protect the environment. The heart of the project is a three-part television series on the Public Broadcasting Service whose areas are home, work and community. Topics include old…
Descriptors: Alternative Energy Sources, Community Involvement, Consciousness Raising, Conservation (Environment)
