Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

detailed information about the resources and people of Canada. The three latest additions of this are Introducing the Lowlands, Farming in the Lowlands and Ships and Power. These of course focus our attention on history, activities and life in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence areas. All too little attention has been given to this in our own schools, and these strips provide a great deal of information that is lacking in other materials produced in our own country. Many details are given about types of farming, industrial centers, local activities and population distribution. Manuals for each strip supply additional data and make the series very useful. In fact, this series actually amplifies the information provided in most texts, and is to be recommended as resource material that will prove very useful. FERMENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA (Single strip, black and white; produced by Office of Educational Activities, N. Y. Times, 229 West 43 St., New York City; S2.50 single strip, $15 for series of which this is a monthly production.) Wherever you look today something happens which turns your attention to affairs in Southeast Asia. It is a large area, much too large to be covered adequately in one filmstrip. The design of this particular strip has been to concentrate attention on the areas and problems involved in the basic struggle between the forces of democracy and Asian communist imperialism. The filmstrip is long and includes many scenes in Malaya, the Philippines and Indonesia. We see many geographic areas, political events, regional activities, and the people concerned with all of these. This strip will serve best if used in sections, and made the basis for a number of lesson units. It provides information useful for both geography and social studies, and especially for study of world events. THIS IS CENTRAL AMERICA (8 fihnstrips as part of an audiovisual kit; A Russ and Nita Rosene production distributed by Filmstrips Distributors, Box 397, Sierra Madre, California; §6 per filmstrip, $55 for complete kit; for separate item prices, see price list). The filmstrips of this series are a part of an audiovisual kit which includes such materials as booklets, a sample of typical Guatemalan weaving, money and postage stamps, cacao beans, coffee berries and a special map and record. The eight strips take us on a voyage to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama to see both the countries and the people at work. The record gives us sounds along the Inter-American highway in a very realistic way which adds a note of sincerity to the whole set. The photographs are good and scenes have been well selected to show outstanding activities and main features of a country. There is much that will interest pupils and it is good material for social studies units and also for inter-American clubs. HOW STRONG IS RUSSIA NOW? (Single strip, black and white; produced by Office of Educational Activities, N. Y. Times, 229 West 43 St., New York City; $2.50 single strip, $15 for series of which this is a monthly production.) If any topic is certain to start discussion, it is likely to be something pertaining to Russia, Russian affairs, Russian strength. This filmstrip brings together a combination of reports, photographs and analyses of the Russian situation and activities. It points to known weaknesses in the program of the government; it indicates something of what we may expect in the way of reactions of the Russian people themselves to their own and to foreign achievements; it compares and contrasts the foreign policies of Russia and the U. S. Again, as with all the filmstrips of this series, this is a long filmstrip — one which we could hope to see used in sections for greatest I THE PAGEANT of AMERICA FILMSTRIPS 30 Units UNIQUE AMONG AMERICA'S BEST FILMSTRIPS Because The broad scope of the series, covering five centuries of America's growth and development in all important aspects, including our sociological, industrial and cultural progress, makes it an invaluable teaching instrument in nearly every phase of the curriculum — government, foreign affairs, science, economics, civics, literature, art and architecture. A comprehensive, illustrated Teacher's Guide, furnished free with each of the 30 units, provides information and suggestions which lessen the need for time-consuming preparation by the teacher. Because Superior educational quality and historical accuracy are guaranteed by the scholarship and skill of top-ranking historians and visual education specialists. 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