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

FILMSTRIPS by Irene F. Cypher June— The End June marks the end of a term— time to look back over what you have been able to accomplish, and time to make plans for the next year's work. This has its advantages and disadvantages. We could hope that in the name of better use of filmstrips the teachers of your staff have realized that there can be many a fine classroom situation developed around the viewing experiences made possible by the use of this type of material. The more ways a filmstrip is made a part of a lesson— the better. The more we hear about people using part of one filmstrip in connection with part of another, again the better. The more you use filmstrips as resource and research material, the better. In fact it would be wonderful to be able to report in one issue that everyone was using filmstrips for completely different reasons, and under conditions that were new and fresh. If June is the month when the flowers and the bees are "busting out all over," why don't we imitate them and do the same things with our use of filmstrips— inaugurate a plan for "busting out all fresh and new in September with some new techniques for using material. After all, what is the summer for if not to get ready for the fall, so think it over and trv it out. Alaska After Statehood (a study Idt, 6 filmstrips, color, long playing record, booklets, map and material; produced by Graphia Distribution Co., 320 Kentucky, San Luis Obispo, California; $42 per kit). Personally we like kits, for they provide teacher and pupils with several kinds of materials and allow for a more rounded study of an\ subject. In this instance the filmstrips give us a very good picture of the problems facing those who live in this great new state. What is living actually like; what are the means of general transportation; how do the farmers secure a good crop despite rugged soil and long, hard winters; what is it like to start out across a great wilderness in search of food? The facts are there and the pictures give us an insight into daily life in Alaska. N'ery good for social studies, geography, general history, and with an element that will appeal to boys and girls of the middle and upper grades. Elementary School Economics (4 filmstrips, sound, color; produced by Text-Film Dept., McGraw-Hill Book Companv, 3.30 West 42nd St., New York 36, N. Y.; 4 strips and 2 records, 331/3 rpm, $37.50 per set) This is an account of how the pupils of a second grade class learn something about the basic facts of economic life by engaging themselves in a series of activities designed to tell them how the laws of supply and demand operate. We see the pupils as they become familiar with such problems as how to relate the need for good to the ability to pay for these same goods; how the government regulates trade in the interests of public welfare. The material is practical and indicates how interested children are when what they are will relate to what they see around them in their home and neigh 1^^ ;:^^ ' ^^^^BHP Am a DISCOVERING SOLIDS Anewfilm series in mathematics from Cenco Educational Films This is a series of five, 16mm sound, color films for junior and senior high schools that lifts solid geometry from the textbook and the chalkboard into an exciting, visual concept of three-dimensional objects, and how they affect our daily lives. The six common solids; cubes, prisms, cylinders, pyramids and spheres are explored and explained in detail. Through animation, these solids are evolved from simple shapes, planes and lines. Formulas for finding the volumes and the surface areas of the solids are carefully developed for the student. Titles of the five films In this series are: • Solids in the World Around Us • Volumes of Cones, Prisms and Cylinders • Volumes of Pyramids, Cones and Spheres • Surface Areas of Solids I • Surface Areas of Solids II Each 15-minute film is available in color for $150, or black and white for $75. Contact your Cenco salesman for further information, or write directly for Booklet 502. CENCO EDUCATIONAL FILMS A Diviiion of Cenco imtrumenls Corporation 1700 Irving Park Rood • Chicago )3, Illinois Mounfaimide, N. J. Montreal Sonfo C/ofo Somervilie, Man. Toronfo tot Ang»(#i Birmingham, Ala. Ottawa Voncouvtr Hou»fon Cenco S.A., Breda, Tbs Netberland% Tufso Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — June, 1961 285