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Salt of the Earth

7-12

Salt of the Earth portrays the true events of a bitter strike of Chicanos in the zinc mines of New Mexico. When an injunction is issued against the workers, the wives take up the battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. The script by Academy-Award winner Michael Wilson warmly depicts the situation's humor as well as its drama. This film was shot on location in 1953 by blacklisted filmmakers. Salt was completed in the face of vigilante attacks, its star's deportation to Mexico and a concerted denial of technical facilities. Boycotted by almost every theater in America, the film won major awards in Europe, and is now recognized as a classic-even in the U.S., where it was widely shown in 16mm during the turbulent 60's and 70's.

Video / 94 minutes / Catalog #1281

Salute to Small Business

6-12

The backbone and strength of our economy is small business. A very large portion of our economy is comprised of small businesses. Lee H. Scott, President of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, talks with small business owners and enterprising individuals throughout Florida.

Video / 14 minutes / Catalog #1225

Science Screen Report: Lessons 1-4

9-12

A Journey Through Our Solar System

Cast in the form of a space adventure, this program reviews the latest scientific research findings and imagery from the U.S. space program. After poetically describing the most recent findings about the planets, it concludes with a warning to protect earth's precious bioshpere.

Project Monex Studies the Monsoon

This program describes a project carried out by 23 nations involving 300 scientists, 5 satellites and dozens of ships and aircraft to better comprehend the monsoon.

Electromagnetism at Work

This program describes the various wavelengths of eolectromagnetic energy, and how they have been applied to meet human needs.

New Scientific Breakthroughs from Computer Graphics Technology

This survey of new advances in the computer field includes such stunning images of natural processes as exploding galaxies, vibrating and colliding atoms, and a geothermal formation.

Video / Catalog #12117

Science Screen Report: Lessons 5-8

9-12

To Capture the Sun

This program surveys a variety of solar energy technologies, traveling from the American southwest to Israel's Dead Sea, to profile the converting of sunlight into usable energy.

Minority Inventors of Science &Engineering

This program profiles some minority group inventors and the ways in which their inventions have benefited humanity.

Frogs--The Amazing Adaptable Creature

This ancient creature, with its myriad adaptions and variations, plays a key role in the field of biology. This program is an introduction to this notable amphibian.

Physics: The Universe

Radio astronomy, in carrying our previously unexplored parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, has revealed unexpected new objects and phenomena in space, and shed new light on others long known. This is a survey of the current state of radio astronomy, the exciting new counterpart of the ancient study of optical astronomy.

Video / Catalog #12118

Shaping a Nation

6-12

This film offers a comparison of two systems as related to their origins, theories and practices. The comparisons are illustrated by viewing a town in Yugoslavia and a town in the United States.

Video / 22 minutes / Catalog #1273

Shopping for Credit

7-12

Alerts consumers to the sources and relative costs of credit and their rights under federal and state lending laws. Lending institutions, such as finance companies, auto dealers, credit unions, and savings banks are investigated by a class of college students. They discuss the amount of interest charged, the total costs of the loan, and any restrictions on obtaining the loan. Tells what questions to ask when shopping for credit and why the Annual Percentage Rate is the most important information.

16mm / 19 minutes / Catalog #22

Shopping Skills

6-9

The goal of these two filmstrips is to equip students with basic consumer skills so they can function as wise and responsible consumers in today's world. The filmstrips use unique cartoon students to present the basic instruction of wise money management.

Filmstrip / Catalog #520

Signposts and Indicators

7-12

Our economy is the largest and most complex in the world. Even top economists don't claim to understand it completely. Newspaper headlines about the money supply, the GNP, unemployment, or the Dow Jones Average are often too confusing to make us want to read further. This filmstrip helps "demystify" the bewildering words and ideas that fill the business pages of our newspapers. It asks the same questions economists ask. And it explains that most "economic indicators" are nothing more than convenient ways of measuring the individual parts of our nation's complicated economy.

Filmstrip / Catalog #534

Signs of the Times

9-12

Traces three economic indicators: GNP, unemployment and inflation from the 1930's through the 1970's in a series of flashbacks.

Video / 20 minutes / Catalog #1305

Small Business Keeps America Working

6-12

An enlightening live-action documentary in which small business owners tell their own story. They relate the risks and rewards of small business today.

Video / 28 minutes / Catalog #1276

Speaking About Economics

9-12

This program addresses the need for economic education. An off-camera interviewer poses questions on economics to about two dozen students. Their candid and often amusing answers vividly demonstrate the need for providing more education about how our economy works. Useful as promotional and fund-raising tool and in presentations to teachers and other educators.

Video / 8 minutes / Catalog #1221

Styles in Soviet Education

6-12

Soviet Students Speak to America is a product of the US-USSR Youth Exchange Program which is affiliated with the Tides Foundation in San Francisco, California. The exchange was founded in January 1983 as a private sector, non-governmental initiative to encourage person-to-person contact and understanding through educational exchange programs among young people in the United States and Soviet Union. Activities of the program include: joint Soviet-American youth wilderness expeditions, art exchanges, and the ongoing development of educational materials for the young people of the two countries.

Video / 19 minutes / Catalog #1230

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Tax Whys: Understanding Taxes

6-12

This series consists of 6 lessons. Each lesson dramatizes an economic issue in events relevant to the daily lives of young people.

Taxes Raise Revenue

Introduces the basic idea that taxes are used to raise revenue and transfer resources for use by private individuals to use by various levels of government.

Taxes Influence Behavior

Demonstrates that taxes and tax reductions influence people's behavior by discouraging or encouraging certain activities.

Taxes Involve Conflicting Goals

This lesson notes that taxation involves a comprise of conflicting goals, and that people with the same income may not pay the same amount of taxes.

Taxes Affect Different Income Groups

Illustrates how different taxes affect fdifferent income groups.

Taxes...Can They Be Shifted?

Points out that sometimes a tax levied on one person or group may actually be paid by--shifted to--others.

Taxes...What is Fair?

Introduces two criteria that can be used to assess tax fairness, benefits received and ability to pay.

Video / Each lesson 20 minutes in length / Catalog #1232

Taxes in U.S. History

6-9

The Whiskey Rebellion : First Test of the Federal Power to Tax, 1794

The Protective Tariff Issue, 1832

Fairness and the Income Tax, 1909

These programs feature characters of similar age and spirit to your students who explore the roles that taxation payed in each of the three issues, specifically: the government's need to raise revenues, tax policy's influence on economic behavior, and the issue of fairness in taxation.

Video / Each lesson is 20 minutes in length / Catalog #1249

Thinking Things Through: Solving Problems and Making Decisions

10-12

This program explores the components of critical thinking --finding facts, testing assumptions against facts, developing and varifying hypotheses, working with probabilities, and designing efficient plans. Emphasizes that these skills can be enhanced through practice.

Filmstrip / Catalog #535

Time for Justice--America's Civil Rights Movement, A

7-12

Three decades have passed since Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, and a quarter of a century has passed since the Voting Rights Act ensured blacks could freely excercise their right to vote. The generation that sits before you in the classroom never witnessed civil rights marches, riots, assassination. For them, the civil rights movement is not recent history--it is history.

America's Civil Rights Movement introduces the civil rights movement through the ordinary people who risked their lives--many of them young people. It challenges students to understand the fundamental democratic principles behind the civil rights movement, to identify with the sacrifices that were made, and to reflect on the meaning of individual sacrifice.

Video / 38 minutes / Catalog #1283

Time of Changes

6-12

An interesting history of the development of America's railroads as seen through the eyes of an older man, himself unable to change as the railroads have had to change. Points out that change is inevitable, and that changes can increase productivity and efficiency.

16mm / 15 minutes / Catalog #17

Too Much Too Little

9-12

Centering on a transaction involving two high school students and the sale of a car, the program traces the historical development of banking and money. Episodes in American history when the country was faced with problems of too much or too little money, and the institutions devised to solve these problems are presented. Topics include:

• Colonial Paper Money
• The Continental Congress
• Panic of 1907
• Gold and Silver Debates
• The First and Second Banks of the U.S.
• The Free Banking Era
• The Creation of the Federal Reserve System
• The National Banking Era

Video / 25 minutes / Catalog #1231

Trade Offs Series

4-8

Each of the fifteen programs is designed to help students increase their understanding of the decision-making process while considering fundamental economic problem relevant to the daily life of a child, emphasizes the economic principles and reasoning processes involved in dealing with the problem, and introduces similar unresolved problems to stimulate classroom discussion.

• Choice
• Malcolm Decides (Personal Decisions)
• We Decide
• Give And Take
• Less And More (Productivity)
• Working Together
• Does It Pay? (Investment)
• (Human Capital)
• Why Money? (Voluntary Exchange)
• To Buy Or Not To Buy
• To Sell Or Not To Sell
• At What Price?
• How Could That Happen? (Interdependence Of Market Prices)
• Innocent Bystanders (Market Intervention)
• Helping Out (Market Invervention).

Video / Catalog #12800

Triangle Factory Fire Scandal

9-12

New York at the turn-of-the-century was a bubbling melting post of European immigrants, all hoping to start a new life and partake in the American Dream. However, the harsh reality was a city of crowed tenements and dingy factories where laborers would work 6-day, 56-hour work-weeks for the paltry sum of nine dollars. It is this struggling, yet hopeful world were The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal takes place. The story follows the lives of four young immigrant women who work in an overcrowed garment district sweatshop. Here, you'll experience the dreams and passions of these young girls...and the events that lead up to one of the most tragic fires in American History--where 146 women lost their lives.

Video / 98 minutes / Catalog #1288

Two Great Crusades

9-12

The New Deal and World War II are the subjects here -- the two greatest crises to confront the nation since the Civil War. Emerging from the paralyzing depression of the 30's, America in the 40's enters a war on two fronts--against the Japanese and against Nazi Germany--and highlights the much unheralded efforts of dedicated Americans on the home front.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1307

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Ump's Fwat

4-8

Ump's Fwat is an annual report prepared by Figgie International for young people so that they may learn how a business can grow from a single idea and how doing something better than it has been done before can turn into a great benefit for the workers, the owners, the country and just about everyone else. In comic book format, Ump's Fwat tells a story while explaining various economic terms.

Video / Catalog #1293

Understanding Wall Street

6-12

The investment primer has been revised and updated to include recent developments: Levereged buy-outs, greenmail, program trading, junk bonds, and the new tax laws. Beginning from scratch, the tape explains how one might start a business, calculate production costs, obtain investment capital, issue stock, and pay dividends. The tape explains such basics as what stocks are, how Wall Street works, and how to read the financal pages. Other topics include stock options, bonds, the money market, and using principles of technical analysis.

Video / 120 minutes / Catalog #1200

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Water, More or Less

7-12

This program explains some of the technologies being explored to meet our present and future water need. Desalination, rehydration of wellfields and wetlands, repurified water, and other alternatives may provide the edge necessary to ensure that we can have the water we need while we protect the environment.

Video / 28 minutes / Catalog #12535

Water Saved is Water Shared

7-12

Water Saved is Water Shared invites you on a journey to visit dedicated Floridians who have found remarkable ways to conserve water in an era of intensely competing demands. See why a Pasco County housewife is so loyal to her 1950s wringer washing machine. How a Sarasota developer incorporated reclaimed water and water-saving landscape designs in an upscale residential area. Take a look at how a citrus processing plant in Polk County puts the "squeeze" on its water use. And in Hillsborough and Manatee counties how strawberry, vegetable, and citrus growers--ever mindful of the dwindling freshwater resource--make certian they are on the cutting edge of efficient irrigation technology.

Video / Catalog #12536

What Do You Know About the Stock Exchange?

7-12

What Do You Know About the Stock Exchange? is an electronic field trip presented by the South Carolina Department of Education. Project Discovery visits the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in an attempt to teach students as much about the stock exchange as possible. The New York Stock Exchange's mission is to promote confidence in an understanding of the NYSE. The video takes a brief look at the history of the NYSE. We see that the underlying principle of an auction system since 1972 hasn't changed; agents acting on behalf of customers and buyers trade face to face. Students will learn about investors, savings and how industries raise capital to finance growth. Other economic topics include the connection of the interest rate and the stock market. A video sure to heighten students understanding of the seemingly complicated NYSE.

Video / 60 minutes / Catalog #1227

What Is Capitalism?

10-12

Provides objective historical analysis of capitalism.

Filmstrip / Catalog #500

What Is Communism?

10-12

Provides objective historial analysis of communism.

Filmstrip / Catalog #501

What Is Economics?

7-12

The basic concepts of economic forces and mechanisms are introduced in this two-part program. Students learn the fundamental concerns of economists and the varied ways in which economic needs can be satisfied, including traditional, command, and market economies. The relationship between economic decision-making and social goals and values is also explored.

Video / 33 minutes / Catalog #1266

What Is Economics?

7-12

The basic concepts of economic forces and mechanisms are introduced in this two-part program. Students learn the fundamental concerns of economists and the varied ways in which economic needs can be satisfied, including traditional, command, and market economies. The relationship between economic decision-making and social goals and values is also explored.

Video / 33 minutes / Catalog #1266

What Is Fascism?

10-12

Outlines the basic features of Fascist ideology and government, and compares the Fascist dictatorships in Europe during WWII to the beliefs held by U.S. Fascists and to the policies of certain Latin American governments.

Filmstrip / 38 minutes / Catalog #503

What Is Socialism?

10-12

Provides objective historical analysis of socialism.

Filmstrip / Catalog #502

Where the Bankers Bank

6-12

Created by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the video takes you on a guided tour of one of the 12 district banks that make up the Federal Reserve System, our nation's central bank.

You'll see the millions of dollars stored in the Federal Reserve's vault and the massive equipment that sorts currency deposits from banks both large and small. You'll also see the check processing equipment that handles thousands of checks every day. In addition, you'll learn about the $15 billion that are electronically transferred by the Federal Reserve each day. Of course, these valuables are protected by a modern security system and you'll get a look at that, too.

Students gain an understanding of the path a check takes when a trip to a St. Louis Baseball Cardinals game is used as an example. The Fed's supervisory and research duties are also touched upon.

Video / 12 minutes / Catalog #1228

Whose Debt Is It?

9-12

Dramatizes the proceedings of a fictional future court trial in which plaintiffs (high school students during the 1980's) sue the federal government, claiming that ill-advised fiscal policies of that decade are responsible for a lower-than-expected standards of living in the 1990's. The testimony of expert witnesses introduces viewers to such economic issues as how a nation's budget deficit and trade deficit are related, the effect of fluctuating dollar exchange rates, and European and Japanese influences on U.S. economic conditions. An extensive teacher's guide provides additional background information, lesson plans, worksheets, graphs, transcripts, and advanced research and discussion topics.

Video / 35 minutes / Catalog #1304

Why Didn't I Think of That? Creative Problem Solving

7-12

Why Didn't I Think of That? has two objectives; one concerning attitudes and one dealing with practical skills.

The additional objective is to help viewers realize they possess creative ability but habitually block it out. To the extent viewers believe creative people are a blessed but strange minority with unique talents, they will fail to develop their own creative skills. After all, why try to develop a skill that is "inborn." This video teaches creative thinking as a skill that can be sharpened.

Video / 28 minutes / Catalog #1280

Why Series

K-6

Why We Conserve Energy: The Witch of the Great Black Pool

Animated film characterizes the use and conservation of fossil fuel energy. Appropriate for young students and as a light treatment for older students.

Why Do We Have Taxes: The Town That Had No Policeman

Uses an animated format to introduce young students to the concepts of taxation and government services.

Why We Use Money: The Fisherman Who Needed A Knife

Animation illustrates the story of a fisherman a long time ago who introduces the basic concept of money as a medium of exchange.

Why People Have Special Jobs: The Man Who Made Spinning Tops

Deals with job specialization and regional specialization, leading to exchange. Clever animation illustrates concepts of bartering, use of money as a medium of exchange, market development, and production of goods and services.

Why We Take Care of Property: The Planet of Ticklebops

Uses a fairy-tale approach to show what happens when children follow their uncurbed urges to destroy property for the fun of it and then realize what they have lost.

Video / Each lesson is 14 minutesin length / Catalog #1226

Wilde About Trade

9-12

A young man who has trouble making decisions seeks the help of Madame Sonia, a gypsy fortune teller. By gazing in her crystal ball, she reveals to him how economics is basically about making choices, and how these choices determine the economic world we live in.

Video / 20 minutes / Catalog #1242

Workers Series

K-6

Illustrates the basic concept of work in the world. Filmstrips include:

• Workers and their work
• Workers who move things
• Workers who make things
• Workers who sell
• Workers who fix things
• Workers who provide food
• Workers who provide serives
• Workers in professions.

Filmstrip / Catalog #528

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Young Spenders, The

6-9

This cartoon filmstrip presents the subject of money management in an interesting way. Students in the middle and junior high grades will easily identify with the home and school situations portrayed in this program.

Filmstrip / Catalog #509

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