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

the language as a part of his life experience. Recommended for beginning French at any grade level. Great Lakes—St. Lawrence Lowlands Region (2 strips, color; produced by National Film Board of Canada and available from Stanle\' Bowmar Co., Inc., 12 Cleveland St.,'Valhalla, N. Y.; So Y>er strip). "Manufacturing in the Lowlands" and "Steel and the Automobile" give us a good idea of how our neiglibors in the St. Lawrence lowlands section of Canada work to produce and manufacture many of the vital necessities for modern life. Present day conditions make it important to understand the problems of this country to our north, and this material is vei-y good for any consideration of western hemisphere resources. These filmstrips take us to the steel mills, the electric plants, the logging mills and the textile mills. We see how raw materials are processed, and there is good material for comparison and contrast with a study of our own centers of industry. Good for social science and world history in the middle ind upper grades. Instructional Materials For Agricultural Education (5 filmstrips, color, tvith manuals; produced by California itate Polytechnic College, San Luis 3bispo, Calif.; 4 strips $4.50 each, I strip S4.7.5, extra manuals .50 each). This is material prepared for specific lurposes and well designed for any •lass or group in which the problems )f agricultural education are coniidered and studied. Separate titles are "Commercial Jeef Cattle Projects"; "Fat Lamb Proj«t Problems"; "Vegetables"; "Catchig and Handling Poultry"; 'Fitting Jid Showing FFA Beef." Actual ihotographs bring us right to ranch nd farm, and we see how cattle are landled, cared for and prepared for larketing. Because there are no capions we get the full benefit of picures which are close enough to serve a "field-trip" type of visual; we get ext to the objects and are close nough to see what is to be studied. The manuals provide full detailed iformation, and the entire series is ilanned to be of help in the study area t which it is intended. This is an xample of material designed for a Jecific purpose and produced in a ^ay which makes it usable and useful, ecornmended for courses in agriculJre and animal husbandry and for H Clubs. Ittture's Wings Ami Petals (.3 strips, Jlor; produced by Curriculum Film strips, Herbert M. Elkins Co., 10031 Commerce St., Tujunga, California; S4.50 per strip). Here we have the visual story of motlis, butterflies and moimtain vvildflowers. Clo.se-ups bring us into contact with the specimens, and the color quality is go<xl. Details of wing formation, petal structure and shape, color gradation, and general form and shape are clearly shown in such a way as to help the viewer learn to recognize the objects. Material of this type is good for classroom science and nature study and it is ;Uso good preparation for nature walks and field trips. In the filmtrips dealing with moths and butterfiies we are also shown the life cycles of both. The series is a good one for grades 4 through 8. NeiD Basic Weather Series (4 strips, color; produced by Society for Visual Education, 1345 Diversey Parkway, Chicago 14, 111.; $19.80 per set, $5.50 single strips). The titles of the separate strips in this series are the questions most frequently asked about weather— "Why Does the Wind Blow?" "Why Does the Weather Change?" "Why the Seasons?" Why Does It Rain, Snow, Hail and Sleet?" Pictures in the series give us an idea of the physical conditions which bring about these weather phenomena, and provide a good basis on which to discuss weather and its relation to life on the earth. The material is good for science in grades 6 to 9. The photographs will attract the pupils' interest and the descriptions are well given. "FfBERBfLT" CASES "THEY lAST INDEFINITELY" Equipped with steel corners, steel card holder and heavy web straps. Only original Fiberbilt Cases bear this Trade Mork Your Asturance of "flnesi Qualify" For 16mm Fllm^ 400' to 3000' Reels Sold by All Leading Dealers Educational Television Guidebook By Philip Lewis, Board of Education, Chicago Ready in January, 1961 This guidebook presents, in a single compilation, data and information covering the field of educational and instructional television, particularly from the systems, equipment, and educational applications point of view. This is the first book to approach this neglected area in television development. For pre-service preparation of new teachers; in-service orientation of administrators, supervisors, and teachers; curriculum specialists; and can be used as a general sourcebook for teachers. Send for your on-approval copy McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 330 West 42nd St., N. Y. 36, N. Y. Iducational Screen and Audiovisual Gliuk — January, 1961 33