See and hear : the journal on audio-visual learning (1945)

Science FJImstrips: Why Does It Raiyi, Snoiu, Hail, Sleet? Wliy Does the Wind Blow Telling Trees Apart George Washington Carver— the Biography of an American (72 frames) 35si filnistrip. Color. Purchase: Artisan. • Drama of turning the useless peanut into scores of nourishing, profitable products and George Washington Carver's story. Health Adventures (57 to 74 frames) 35si filmstrip. Color. Purchase: Jam Handy. Intermediate, junior high. • Care and functions of teeth, eyes, ears, nose, skin. Workings of the digestive system, bones and muscles, heart and lungs, and necessity of proper sleep and rest. Health — Your Teeth and Their Care Health — Your Eyes at Work Health — Hmu Your Ears Work Health — Your Nose and Throat Health — Your Skin and Its Care Health — Your Eood and Digestion Health — Y'our Bones and Muscles Health — Your Heart and Lungs Health —Sleep and Rest Matter-Energy Series (50 frames each) 35si filmstrip. Purchase: Pop Sci. Elementary and intermediate. • Facts on matter and energy, including atomic energy. Each filmstrip designed for a specific grade. Things in the World that Help Us -3 &4 Hoiu Things in the World Change Man's Use of Power — 7 if 8 Plants and Animals Series (50 frames each) 35si filmstrip. Purchase: Pop Sci. EAementary, intermediate. • Presented in terms of pupils' own experience, develops concepts concerning the inter-relationship of plant and animal life. A Home for Water Plants and Animals — 3 ir 4 Balance Among Lixnng Things — Communities of Lining Things — 7 1-8 Safety in the Laboratory (53 frames) 35si slidefilm. Purchase: Visual Sciences. • Each frame drives home a powerful lesson in safety. A COMPLETE LISTING OF SOURCES OF THESE FILMS BEGINS ON PAGE 40 12 Weather Series (50 frames each) 35si filmstrip. Purchase: Pop Sci. Elementary, intermediate. • Makes possible cummulative experience in this area of science study. Develops concept concerning weather, its effect on out lives and our adjustment to it. Correlated with The How and Why Science Books, published by the L. W. Singer Co. Each filmstrip designed for different grade levels. We Learn About Weather — Grades 3 & 4 Changes iji Weather — Grades 5 ir 6 Understanding Weather Conditions — 7 if 8 Sound Films for General Science Airplanes and How They Fly (1 reel) 16sd. Purchase: YAF. Intermediate, junior high. • An elementary explanation of how an airplane flies from the light private plane to the largest commercial transport, newest jet fighter and heaviest bombers. Friction (11 min) 16sd. Purchase: YAF. • What friction is, what causes it, means of reducing or increasing it. Gravity (10 min) 16sd. Color or b/w. Purchase or rent: Coronet. Junior high, senior high, college. • Everyday examples of the force of gravity and its major effects on our solar system, tides and the effects of distance on gravitational pull. For general science classes. Liquid Air (11 min) 16sd. Purchase or rent: Almanac. • Manufacture and use of liquid air and other gases explained in simple experimental terms. How liquid air flows like water, the effect of pressure and temperature on form as iron is liquified, liquid oxygen and its uses and the manufacture of nitrogen, neon, hydrogen and liquid helium at 269 degrees below centigrade zero. Nature's Techniques (11 min) 16sd. Purchase or rent: Almanac. • Many of man's technical achievements were inspired by nature. Smoke screens, portable batteries, the paracola of a projectile and many other techniques are shown to be copies of natural phenomena. Our Changing World (80 min) 16sd. Rent: Ott. • Development of the earth since the beginning of time. Emergence of life from the oceans to start growing on dry land and how first land plants were designed to help break up the solid rock. Geological development of the earth. Ends with the advent of man on earth and our entering into the "Atomic Age." Pottery from the Wheel (15 min) ]6sd. Color or b/w. Purchase: Instructional. Intermediate, junior and senior high. • Process of making and finishing pottery from clay to the finished product. Story of a Storm, The (10 min) 16sd. Color or b/w. Purchase: Coronet. • How a storm grows and travels by means of animation. Sun's Family, The (1 reel) 16sd. Purchase: YAF. Elementary school. • Explanation of the Solar System for elementary school science classes. Thunder and Lightning (1 reel) 16sd. Purchase: YAF. Elementary school. • Explains frictional electricity in a manner suitable for elementary school science classes. Thermometer, The (10 min) 16sd. Purchase: Instructional. Intermediate, junior high. • Temperature, its measurement and its effect on materials. From the Experiences in Science series. Web of Life Series — Part I and II. (17 min each) 16sd. Purchase: EBF. Junior and senior high, adult groups. • Uses fossil remains and other prehistoric relics to make the point that communities of plants and animals have existed on earth only to be replaced by others when they have failed to adjust themselves to changes in their environment. Growth and development of the climax forest, emphasizing the meaning and significance of a state of balance, which is symbolized by the web of life. Second part, A Strand Breaks, traces the consequences of a state of imbalance in nature. Results of overgrazing and hunting are explored. The Strands Grow A Strand Breaks What Makes Things Float (10 min) ]6sd. Purchase: Instructional. Intermediate, junior high. • Simple explanation of how and why things float. SEE & HEAR "uma. J. I