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You recognize immediately that sea-going rhythms properly are emphasized and that group dance and group play to those rolling and working rhythms can easily be encouraged. The simple story serves only to give a unity to the disc and to maintain interest in the songs. The disc is useful in elementary dance and should lead to valuable self-expression on the part of the children. Of course youngsters can be encouraged to detail their own sailing experiences as a result of the audio stimulation. "Old Ironsides" is intended for a more mature group and will be useful up to fourth and perhaps fifth grade. It tells the story of the frigate "USS Constitution" and is a welcome addition to the YPR Fact and Folklore Series. The record contains songs appropriate to the interests of these older children, such as "Old Ironsides", "A Full Rigged Ship", "Big Pine Box", "Five to One", and the ballad "The Constitution and the Guerriere". The story of "Old Ironsides" is told and the listener is given useful historical background and information which make the listening experience more meaningful. • The School Service Section of Westinghouse offers as one of its educational materials a transcription kit on the science of electronics. The kit contains six transcribed fifteen-minute radio programs on electronics especially prepared for school use, some associated literature, and a twenty-page teacher's guide describing the contents of each program and giving suggestions for class preparation and follow-up. ELECTRONICS AT WORK. Westinghouse School Service Section, 306 Fourth Avenue, P.O. Box 1017, Pittsburgh 30, Pennsylvania. Three double-faced sixteen-inch transcriptions at 33'/3 rpnn, teacher's manual, and associated literature. The six programs included in this series are "The Electron", "The Electron Tube", "Electronics in Communication", "Electronics in Transportation", "Electronics in Industry", and "Electronics in Health and Personal Enjoyment". The programs serve very important ends, giving vitality and significance to the new science of electronics and showing some of its impact on our daily lives. In addition, the programs trace in broadest terms the development of knowledge about the electron and present certain basic principles underlying the construction and functioning of electron tubes. The programs are broad in their scope and general in their appeal. Junior high school students particularly will find the listening experience interesting. Although the programs may well be used in classroom situations, they will better serve as immediate reference material in a library audition room or similar place. They may be assigned for individual or small group listening and reporting, and students thus assigned will find the teacher's manual a valuable aid in preparing exhibits and models for the whole class to study. Each program is complete in itself and therefore may be used individually without reference to the others or the program may be used in any sequence desired by the instructor. The programs will contribute in several study areas. First, of course, the discs may be used in a general science course which attempts an overview of science and its contributions to our mode of living. Physics teachers faced with the problem of motivating interest in electronics may find one or more of these programs very useful. Certainly the students of electricity or radio will find the information valuable. Such a class, or a radio club, will find group listening more productive than individual listening because through the programs valuable discussions can be motivated. Certain of the programs will be of particular interest in social studies classes and at least one will make a contribution to health and biology classes. 114 Educational Screen