Thinkabout
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Thinkabout, "a cooperative project for acquiring skills essential to learning", was an instructional program for children, produced in 1979 by the Agency for Instructional Television
, in association with various contributing television stations in the United States
and Canada
. It was distributed to PBS and educational stations across the US and Canada as late as the mid-to-late 1980s.
The sixty programs produced were aimed for fifth and sixth grade students to understand their learning process in topics as varied as language arts, mathematics, study skills, as well as thinking skills.
Thinkabout was funded by various state and local agencies, with additional support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
, one of very few CPB-funded programs not distributed by PBS.
Agency for Instructional Technology
The Agency for Instructional Technology is a non-profit organization in the United States that produces, sells and distributes educational and instructional television programs, and other multimedia materials, to schools in the United States and Canada....
, in association with various contributing television stations in the United States
United States
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and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It was distributed to PBS and educational stations across the US and Canada as late as the mid-to-late 1980s.
The sixty programs produced were aimed for fifth and sixth grade students to understand their learning process in topics as varied as language arts, mathematics, study skills, as well as thinking skills.
Thinkabout was funded by various state and local agencies, with additional support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress, funded by the United States’ federal government to promote public broadcasting...
, one of very few CPB-funded programs not distributed by PBS.
Program Listing
- 1. Why Bother?
- 2. Brainstorming
- 3. Blockbusting
- 4. You Can Remember
- 5. Estimating
- 6. Approximating
- 7. Using Estimating and Approximation
- 8. Find Your Guide
- 9. What's the Meaning?
- 10. Meaning is More Than Words
- 11. Remember the Audience!
- 12. But, What Does it Mean?
- 13. The Biggest Picture
- 14. Where Are You Coming From?
- 15. Make a Present for the Future
- 16. What Do You Know?
- 17. Where Should I Go?
- 18. What Should I Know?
- 19. There are Ways to Remember
- 20. Classfying Objects
- 21. Classfying Information
- 22. People
- 23. There are Many Ways to Go
- 24. People Patterns
- 25. Communication Patterns
- 26. Cultural Patterns
- 27. Nature's Patterns
- 28. Search for the Unknown
- 29. Drawing Conclusions
- 30. Checking Conclusions
- 31. Practice for Success
- 32. One Step at a Time
- 33. Plan Ahead
- 34. Calm Your Jitters!
- 35. What Are They?
- 36. Where Do You Get Them?
- 37. How Do You Change That?
- 38. Design a Language
- 39. Symbols
- 40. More Than You Think
- 41. Summarizing
- 42. Using Maps and Models
- 43. Get Ahead With Goals
- 44. Should I Believe?
- 45. What's Important?
- 46. What's Enough
- 47. Point of View
- 48. Persuasive Techniques
- 49. Make a Deal With Yourself
- 50. Styles of Communication
- 51. Planning a Presentation
- 52. Making a Presentation
- 53. Making Your Point
- 54. Making it Come Alive
- 55. Making Something New
- 56. One Thing Leads to Another
- 57. A Matter of Time
- 58. There's Always a Risk
- 59. Hanging in There
- 60. Plan a City of the Future
Trivia
- During the 1979-1980 school year, AIT partnered with Weekly ReaderWeekly ReaderWeekly Reader is a weekly educational classroom magazine designed for children in grades Pre-K–12. It began in 1928 as My Weekly Reader....
magazine, in which Weekly Reader included a special Thinkabout feature in their 4th and 5th grade editions.
- This series is unrelated to the 1980s BBC TwoBBC TwoBBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
program of the same name, which was seen in the 1980s and 1990s; unlike the US series, the British series' focus was on science.