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

Comments and materials for review should be sent to the department editor-Irene F. Cypher, New York University, 26 Washington Square, New York 3, N.Y. Foundations For Occiipatioital Planning (5 strips, color; produced by Society for Visual Education, 1345 Diversey Parkway, Chicago 14, 111.; $22.50 per set, $5 single strips). Every student will sooner or later face the problems included in the material of this set— what does he want to do, what does he like to do, what sort of job does he wish to prepare for, and how does school help to prepare him for a job? Major intent of the series is to stimulate students to think through to their own personal answers to such questions, and the material is well designed for guidance discussion work in the upper grades and in junior high school. ! i t 1 i ^^^^y % ■-■5 JE F 4 ^^m ^ 1 ib ^^^^^^^^^HHHH^^MHMi — w# slurp Remember when the most delicious part of an ice cream soda was that last resounding sip? The magic years of youth are sprinkled with a thousand and one such noisy delights— accepted simply, appreciated instinctively and forgotten quickly. These transient pleasures and simple sounds soon give way to more enduring enthusiasms, to richer and more meaningful sounds. Such as recordings on Audiotape. This tape gives you superb clarity and range, minimum distortion and background noise. Because of its remarkable quality. Audiotape has the timeless gift of offering pleasure to everyone from juvenile soda slurpers to mature twisters. Try Audiotape today. ftiiftnytftp^ "it speaks for itself" 1^*°^ "*•"* For language classes and wherever the spoken word must be reproduced clearly and realistically, try economical Language Arts Recording Tape . , . developed to meet the special needs of today's educators. AUDIO DEVICES INC.. 444 Madison Ave . N. Y. 22. N. Y. Offices m Los Angeles • Cliicago • Washinfton, 0. C. Japan (book, record and filmstrip in color; produced by international Communications Foundation, 913.3 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, Calif.; $5.95 for book and record, $15 with filmstrip). Japan today is very different from the Japan of Commodore Perry's time. The book in this kit of materials gives us many photographs of life and people in Japan from the early days down to the present. Narration to explain pictorial content is provided by the record, and the filmstrip carries on the story. The filmstrip is long, and should be used in parts for best results. Altogether there is a well of information in the kit and it is good for social studies in the middle and upper grades. Space And Space Travel (6 strips, color; produced by Jam Handy Organization, 2821 East Grand Blvd., Detroit 11, Michigan; $31. .50 per set, $5.75 single strips). Space travel is no longer a matter of speculation, it is part of present reahty. Students today need to have information about basic principles of man's preparation for space travel, details of rocket propulsion, details about space stations and possible exploratory trips to other planets. One strip of this series gives a good description of atmospheric pressure, light, sound and temperature, and atomic forces encountered in space travel. The material is well coordinated to science units and will help in gaining familiarity with the terms and problems to be handled. The strips can be used in many class sessions, and need not necessarily be used as a series. This is good, for it provides material to be referred to when it is needed, rather than necessitating rigid viewing patterns. Filmstrips are a flexible type of material, and it is good to keep them that way; then a teacher can use them when they serve the best purposes in the classroom. Teaching Science (4 strips color, with two records; produced by Bailey Films, Inc., 6509 De Longpre Ave., Hollywood 28, Calif.; $29 per set). Teachers need to refresh their thinking about methods occasionally and this series is in the nature of a series of field trips to observe teaching procedures in the area of science. Included is presentation of units with young children as they first start to explore in the world of science; we are then given an opportunity to see how children are guided through an actual science lesson. It is good material for seminars and workshops, and is a good addition to the professional material which shoidd be on hand as resource for teachers when planning their work. 278 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — May, 1962