Thinkabout

Thinkabout

Thinkabout

1979 · Kids, Family

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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.

1.Finding Alternatives: Why Bother?2.Finding Alternatives: Brainstorming3.Finding Alternatives: Blockbusting4.Finding Alternatives: You Can Remember5.Estimating and Approximating: Estimating6.Estimating and Approximating: Approximating7.Estimating and Approximating: Using Estimating and Approximating8.Estimating and Approximating: Find Your Guide9.Giving & Getting Meaning: What's the Meaning?10.Giving & Getting Meaning: Meaning is More than Words11.Giving & Getting Meaning: Remember the Audience!12.Giving & Getting Meaning: But What Does It Mean?13.Giving & Getting Meaning: The Bigger Picture14.Giving & Getting Meaning: Where Are You Coming From?15.Challenge #1: Time Capsule: Make a Present for the Future16.Collecting Information: What Do I Know?17.Collecting Information: Where Should I Go?18.Collecting Information: What Should I Do?19.Collecting Information: There are Ways to Remember20.Classifying: Classifying Objects21.Classifying: Classifying Information22.Classifying: Stereotyping People23.Classifying: There Are Many Ways to Go24.Finding Patterns: People Patterns25.Finding Patterns: Communication Patterns26.Finding Patterns: Cultural Patterns27.Finding Patterns: Nature's Patterns28.A Challenge: Search for the Unknown29.Generalizing: Drawing Conclusions30.Generalizing: Checking Conclusions31.A Tip: Practice for Success32.Sequencing & Scheduling: One Step at a Time33.Sequencing & Scheduling: Plan Ahead34.Sequencing and Scheduling: Calm Your Jitters!35.Using Criteria: What Are They?36.Using Criteria: Where Do You Get Them?37.Using Criteria: How Do You Change That?38.A Challenge: Design a Language39.Reshaping Information: Symbols40.Reshaping Information: More Than You Think41.Reshaping Information: Summarizing42.Reshaping Information: Maps and Models43.A Tip: Get Ahead with Goals44.Judging Information: Should I Believe It?45.Judging Information: What's Important?46.Judging Information: What's Enough?47.Judging Information: Point of View48.Judging Information: Persuasive Techniques49.A Tip: Make a Deal with Yourself50.Communicating Effectively: Styles of Communication51.Communicating Effectively: Planning a Presentation52.Communicating Effectively: Making a Presentation53.Communicating Effectively: Making Your Point!54.Communicating Effectively: Making It Come Alive55.A Challenge: Make Something New56.Solving Problems: One Thing Leads to Another57.Solving Problems: A Matter of Time58.Solving Problems: There's Always a Risk59.Solving Problems: Hanging in There60.Plan a City of the Future