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NAEB Hews Letter***Sept 15, 1939 Pag© 8 at the museum* This procedure has done an interesting thing® The museum, people have found that there has been a wave of demand for further visits by entire classes, which has almost engulfed the facilities of the museum; and it has served, in my opinion, to bring to life in a very genuAae, if pragmatic manner, the resources and contributions of the various service institutions 1 have mentioned® R Ad& to that the second program in literature, which goes by the title, LetJ^s Tell a Story * Little need he said about this program, since it is pfacticaTTy the same, except for level, as that of the fifth grad®. Open Sesame, literature series* "A third program is another Chicago program — this one entitled, 3^ W ill n because those two words represent the motto of Chicago, emblazoned on the city seal. Her®, with the cooperation of a social studies content committee, w© are offering seventeen programs cover¬ ing the social, economic phases of our city life* These are concerned with city government, with the city services; with city planning; with transportation; and the like* A five-minute dramatization introduces each program, and is followed by a ten-minute interview with the man who heads the work which w© are considering for the day* The mayor of the city will appear on one program on city government® The president of the sanitary district will be interviewed on the program on sanitation and health* The president of Sears Roebuck will appear on on© of the programs on industries, and so on® "A fourth program is the Student Chorus , This group changes from week to week, and the muslb depart’ment with its eight supervisors is responsible for providing the repertoire and choruses which engage in this fifteen minute spot® Songs are introduced in each case by a narrator who gives some pertinent comment.® These music programs also include participation on the part of the listening audience* 5t The last program of this aeries Is a news program entitled, That * a Rows to Me, This program contains an interview with some outstanding eehooT^youngst©r, either high school or elementary, who has won an oratorical contest, or bean captain of the city championship football team., or something of that sort* The subjects treated ©r© those subjects which have a definite applicable us© in the child’s own environment* n X should say hero that we have no programs addressed to high school people during the high school time® We do have about ten programs outside of high school time — ©vanings and Saturdays — many of which are participated in by high school students, and are contributed to by the service of the high school radio workshops* f *Row, let me say just a word about perhaps the most important topic that 1 could discuss, namely, utilization, of radio broadcasts* It should go without saying that the introduction of a new tool, whether it b© in the machine shop, the assembly line, or the classroom, needs safe-guarding* It needs the safeguarding of instruction* It needs explanation® And it has been our experience, and I’m certain perhaps ha.s been yours, too, that teachers must catch the spark of inspiration® they must find, through careful study of radio that they have a tool which has activities and objectives peculiar to itself, but which.