Edward TelJcr. who helped develop the bomb; Paul Ni1Ze. who production of currency. Part 1. "What's it Worth." discusses what participated in the Strategic Bombing Survey, George Elsey. a sets the value of currency, how did money develop and how naval aide to Truman; Donald Russell. an aide to Secretary of money has changed over the centuries. Part 2. "It's as Gold," is State Arthur Byrnes; and other participants in the U.S.• Britain. all about gold and the value ofgold. Part 3. "Minting Money." Japan and Russia. takes you to the United States Mint in Philadelphia where you can watch the making ofaquarter. Part 4. "Printing Money," takes you to Washington DC to the Bureau ofEngraving and THE HISTORY CHANNEL - TRIO: AMUNDSEN, Printing to learn about paper money. Part 5, ''Money in Other SCOTT AND BYRD Countries," is about how currencies are made and used in other M-J,.H countries. ThursdJzy. August. 03, 9:00-10:00 am Exclusive expeditionary scenes and actual recordings TLC - TLC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: MONEY: chronicle the dramatic stories ofthese Arctic explorers. KIDS AND CASH: MONEY AND YOU K-3.~,SM l1li Tuesday, September. 12, 4:00-5:00 am Tuesday, October, 17, 4:00-5:00 am TLC - OFF-AIR TAPING Tuesday, November, 21. 4:00-5:00 am Tuesday, December. 26. 4:00-5:00 am Educators will be able to videotape "TLC Elementary School." the new commercial-free series and use up to two years This five part series profiles finance. youth and the entrepre from the last date the programs airs. For additional information, neurial spirit The first segment "What's aBank?" explores the contact The Learning Channel, 7700 Wisconsin Avenue, history ofbanking and includes a trip to a modem day bank. Bethesda. MD 20814-3522, (800) 321-1832. Subsequent segments explore how money is kept safe and secure. and what a checking and savings account are and how TLC - TLC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL they function. The series also profiles young entrepreneurs who K-3, 4-6, CC. SM have made money through their own successrul businesses, and TuesdJzys. 4:00-5:00 am, during the school year ice cn:am makers Ben and leny who own success provides a positive role model for managing a business and making money. The Learning Channel will become the first television network to air a curriculum-based, regularly scheduled prognm designed specifically for elementary school teachers to use in TLC - TLC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: OCEANS their dassrooms. Educators will be able to videotape the new K-3,~.SM commercial-free series and use up to two years from the last date Tuesday, August. 29, 4:00-5:00 am the programs air. Each hour ofprogramming will consist ofa Tuesday, October. 03, 4:00-5:00 am variely offive to IS-minute segments thatteaehas can inc0rpo Tuesday, November, 07, 4:00-5:00 am rate into the curriculum. The topics include life.cycle concepts Tuesday, December, 12, 4:00-5:00 am of animals. how things work. other chiIdm1. and stories about other cultures, as well as classic tales. Aseven-part series that provides young viewers with a vision ofthe ocean, its myths, inhabitants and human interaction. Part I Support Materials: Each hour will begin with a complete "In the Company ofWhales" explores how whales learn and table ofcontents to clearly identify the segments that are on the communicatc~ Part n. "The Man Who Loves Sharts... profiles tape to make it easier for teachers to usc. Educators may tape Stan Waterman. an undersea explorer who has dedicated his life and use "TLC Elementary School" in the classroom for two to undersWtding sharks; Part In. "The Loch Ness Monster." years. Educators' suggested activities and lists ofresourees examines the mydt ofthe Loch Ness mons=- by taking viewers related to the video segments will appear on air with each hour. on a scientific examination ofthe Iakc and its contents; Part IV "Coral Reefs" looks at the "rain forests ofthe seas;" Part V, TLC - TLC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: MONEY: "Acrylic Submersible" introduces artist Bruce Beasley. who has KIDS AND CASH: ALL ABOUT MONEY invented a way to use acrylic that is being used by the Naval K-3,4-6. SM Underseas Center to develop better research submersibles; Part Tuesday. September. 05, 4:00-5:00 am VI, '"Exploring Underwater" demonstrates how scientists design Tuesday. October, 10. 4:00-5:00 am special vehicles and robots capable ofstaying underwater for Tuesday. November, 14, 4:00-5:00 am long periods oftime; and Part vn, "Submarines" shows how Tuesday. December. 19, 4:00-5:00 am submarines - and crews - are able to stay under water for up to six months This five-part program examines the history and
26 C KIDSNET August 1995 TLC - TLC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: ANIMAL Educator Networks: Big Sky Telegraph (Montana); CoSN STORIES (Consortium for School Networking); FIRN(Florida Information K-3,4-6, SM Resource Network); Sendit Project (North Dakota); SERVE Tuesday, September. 19, 4:00-5:00 am (South Eastern Regional Vision for Education); Armadino Tuesday, October, 24, 4:00-5:00 am (Texas); and Tenet (Texas). Tuesday. November; 28. 4:00-5:00 am Tuesday. January. 02. 4:00-5:00 am TLC·ARCBAEOLOGY M-l,H,F Afive-part program focusing on animals from around the Sundays, 8:30-9:00 pm world. Part L "Animals ofthe Nile" fonows the 4,000 miles of Mondays, 8:00-8:30 pm the Ntle River to observe the animals who inhabit each geo graphic region along the river, Part n, "Animals of the Hosted by actor 10hn Rhys-Davies, the 13 half-hour Rainforest" visits the rainforest ecosystem of the Manu Bio episodes will examine past civilizations around the globe - from sphere reserve in Peru; Part m, "Emperors of Antarctica" the desert southwest ofthe United States to Great Zimbabwe, the introduces the Emperor penguins ofAn1lrCtica; Part IV, "Asian first city ofSouthern Africa, to early Roman expeditions in Elephants" foUows Parbarti Barua, India's only female mahout, Germany. Interwoven through many episodes is the usc of as she leads her elephants on a trek and reveals why the popula modem science and technology, such as computer simulation and tion ofAsian elephants is dwindling; and Part V, "The Big Wee' bone analysis, to solve intriguing mysteries and to challenge long looks at the weather and animals of the Australian north. standing beliefs about past civilizations. The series will animate history with original footage, riveting first-person accounts, archival film footage, computer animation, photographs, artwork, TLC - TLC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD and interviews with leading archaeologists. K-3,4-6, SM TLC - BATILES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Tuesday. September, 26, 4:00-5:00 am M-l,H Tuesday. October; 31. 4:00-5:00 am Thursdays, 10:00-10:30 pm Tuesday. December; 05, 4:00-5:00 am Tuesday. January. 09. 4:00-5:00 am This series recounts some ofthe most pivotal military confrontations the world has known and examines how each This fivc-pat't program introduces the culture and traditions of battle radically altered society and the world views ofthose people from around the world. Segment One, "People ofthe involved. Artifacts, reenactments and archival footage featured in Ntle" introduces the different groups ofpeople who live along the each episode provide a historical context for the environment in 4,000 mile expanse ofthe Ntle River, Segment Two, "People of which these campaigns were waged. the Rainforest" visits the Manu rainforest in Peru to see how the "Machiguenga" people have lived for hundreds ofyears; TLC - BEAKMAN'S WORLD Segment Three, "Mustang: The Tale ofTwo Journeys" takes K-3,~, M-l, LIT, SM, HV viewm to the remote region ofMustang in North West Nepal to Sundays. 9:00-9:30 am & 9:30-10:00 am see how people live in an area that has been isolated from the outside world for centuries; Segment IV, "Rice Harvesf' follows Based on the comic strip "You Can With Beakman" by Jok the members ofthe Shikdar family, who work together on a farm Church in Bangladesh; Segment V, "Counting Around the World" shows American children counting to ten in the language oftheir This half-hour series humorously explains scientific ancestors - English, Spanish, Omaha, Arabic, Swahili and matters to children and young adults using Iive-action and Vietnamese. animated elements. It is based on the comic strip "You Can With Beakman," running in about 100 newspapers. Performance TLC - THE DISCOVERY NETWORK'S EDUCATOR artist Paul ZaIoom stars as Beakman, a slightly nutty but always GUIDE ON-LINE SITES inquisitive scientist who has dedicated himselfto answering E, SM, ON-LINE questions about how the world works. Using state- of-the-art visuals and humorous situations, main topics spin off into subsets The Discovery Network's Educator Guide, a publication that of questions and answers which reveal relationships between offers lesson plans for selected Discovery and TLC programming principles ofscience and nature and how they affect our daily can be accessed at the following on-line sites: America On-Line: environment. keyword: DSC-E.I}, AskERIC at Syracuse University: Gopher Access: discovery.syr.educ:95 (some browsers require port #), or Support Materials: The book You Can with Bealanan, by Jok WWW Access: http://Discovery.syr.educ/Discovery/ Area Church is available at local bookstores across the country. The
() KIDSNET August 1995 27 book contains relatively simple science experiments designed to enactments to help chronicle the string ofevents that led up to interest children. the decision to drop the nuclear bomb. The prognun explores the dilemma that president Franklin D. Roosevelt and his advisors in TLC - DISMANTLING THE BOMB their search for answers, the mastermind operation ofJ. Roben M-J,H Oppenheimer, and the decision by Truman to complete a project Wednesday. August. 02, 9:00-10:00 pm he knew little about. "Dismantling the Bomb" is a one hour special that considers TLC - BOW,» THEY DO THAT the history, creation and disposal ofatomic weapons. The 4-6, M-J, H, F program examines the controversial beginnings ofthe bomb, Tuesdays. 8:00-9:00 pm looks at the political and technological dilemmas surrounding nuclear waste disposal and chronicles the search for a more cost "How'd They Do That" is a faetuaI series that profiles unique effective means ofhandling waste matcriaJs. The program and bizarre phenomenon. Topics examined range from how killer features historic footase ofatomic explosions and presents whales are trained to eat out ofa human hand to a unique French interviews with nuclear weapons designers, plutonium chemists car designed to aetually "fold-up." Hosted by Pat O'Brien and and nuclear bomb specialists who explain how weapons an: Dorothy Lucy constructed, how they operate and how they an: taken apart. TLC - HUMAN BEINGS H TLC-DAYONE saturdays, 10:00-11:00 pm M-J,H Sundtzy. August, 06, 8:00-11:00 pm Each hour long episode in this six part mini-series, focuses on a different aspect ofhuman behavior from body "Day One" is a three hour fact-based drama that traces the language to sexuality to parenting. Desmond Morris, an development and controversial use ofthe atomic bomb. The film internationally acclaimed zoologist and author of, "The Naked tells the story ofLco Szilard, a Hungarian-Jewish nuclear Ape," hosts the series and presents his view that human actions physiQst and refugee fiom Nazi Germany, who was one ofthe an: deeply rooted in our primeval past. first known scientists to develop atomic theory. Szilard enrolled his friend Albert Einstein to help endorse his theory and present TLC -I CAN DO IT PSA the plan to build a bomb to defeat the Germans to President P Roosevelt The program also tJaeeS the development ofthe Interstitial programming. check local listings "Manhattan Project" and considers the various scientific factions engaged in the development ofthe bomb as wdllS moral These 30-sec0nd public service announcements are questions about using tile bomb in Japan, after Germany was designed 10 boost preschoolers' self-esteem. Each oftile defeated without needing to use it. announcements focus on child stars who relate their experiences. TLC - HISTORY'S TIJRNlNG POINT TLC - PALEOWOllLD M-J,H, F K·3,~, M-J, SM September 1995 Sundays, 9:00-9:30 pm Each episode ofthis 13-part series will explore a momentous WttbJudays, 8:00-8:30 pm historicaJ event and provide insight into the people and places associated with it From the Beige ofConstantinople to the Dinosaurs are a special focus ofthe series. This 13-part marriage ofPocahantes to the dropping ofthe first atomic bomb, series combines life-size robotic creatures developed by Dinama· the series wiD describe how each event was a turning point that lion International and three-dimensional computer animation to has shaped the world as we know it today. explore such intriguing topics as dinosaur reproduction, flesh eating marsupials, the mystery ofextinction, and the strangest TLC - HISTORY'S TURNING POINTS: THE mammals to have inhabited prehistoric earth. Viewers also visit ATOMIC BOMB with paleontologists - fossil "bone doctors" - who an: helping M-J,H to shed new light on dinosaur life-styles and ailments that may Sundtzy. August, 06, 7:30-8:00 pm yield clues to modem human diseases. "The Atomic Bomb" uses archival footage ofthe bombing of Support Materials: Support Materials an: available for this Channe~ Pearl Harbor and Hisoshima and key participants, as well as re- program. Contact The Learning 7700 WISCOnsin Avenue, Bethesda., MD 20814-3522, (800) 321-1832.
28 o KIDSNET August 1995 TLC - READY, SET, LEARN! TLC - READY, SET, LEARN!: JOIN IN! P p Monday-Friday Monday-Friday, 6:00-6:30 am Monday - Color Day "Join In'" airs as part of The Learning Channel's "Ready, Set, Learn!," a six-hour commercial·free preschool block In this Tuesday - Animal Day haIf-hour multicultural program, three adult friends - zachary, Wednesday· Music Day Nicky, and Jacob - take viewers through a series of everyday experiences, inviting them to join in and sing, march, read, paint, Thursday - On The Move Day or dance along at home. The emphasis is on having fun while Friday -Do It Day learning useful lessons through normal daily activities. The series is designed to teach preschoolers social interaction skills, such as This six·hour commercial-free ptaehool programming block dealing with disappointment, learning patience, and making new is hosted by Rory, acritically acclaimed children's singer/ friends. songwriter and recipient ofthe 1992 Parents' Choice Award'gold rating. The programs are designed to help children develop key TLC - READY, SET, LEARN!: KlTIY CATS skins such as reasoning, whole language learning, social p interaction, basic reading, conceptualization, and imagination. In Monday-Friday. 8:30-9:00 am addition to daily themes, "Ready, Set, Learn," features "Letter Monday-Friday, 11 :30-noon Days" where Rory says children's names that begin with that day's special letter ofthe alphabet. "Letter Days" gives children "Kitty Cats" airs as part ofThe Learning Channel's their own special day in which they are featured on television. "Ready, Set, Learn!," a six-hour commercial·free preschool The fonowing "Ready, Set, Learn!" programs are in alphabetical programming block. This half-hour series features four order. mischievous puppets, two cats (Tango and Ricky), a bird (Flap), and a dog (Charlie), who sing, dance, and play their way into TLC - READY, SET, LEARN!: BOOKMICE real-life situations. The focus is on solving dilemmas creatively, P and each episode unravels an adventure that helps children learn Monday-Friday, 6:30-7:00 am some oClife's most important lessons, including making decisions, keeping a positive attitude, dealing with failure, "Bookmice" airs as part ofTIle Learning Channel's sharing and cooperating, and learning new words. "Ready, Set, Learn!," a six-hour commercial-free preschool programming block. This half-hour series features puppetry, nc-READY, SET, LEARN!: RORY AND ME people, live action, and animation combined with songs and P storytelling which introduce children to the thrill of books and Monday-Friday. 8:00-8:30 am reading. At the center of each episode are three curious mice Monday-Friday, 11 :00-11:30 am ZIzi, Norbert, and Leon - who live behind the walls of a neighborhood Iibmy. Acclaimed singer and children's songwriter Rory, is joined by her young puppet friend, Reddy, an adventurous 6-year-old TLC - READY, SET, LEARN!: IRIS, THE HAPPy neighbor. Through humor, animation, claymation, and folktales, PROFESSOR preschoolers Ieam life skins. Special segments show baby P animals and how they grow. Monday-Friday, 9:00-9:30 am Monday-Friday, 10:30-11:00 am TLC - READY, SET, LEARN!: THE MAGIC BOX p "Iris, the Happy Professor," airs as part of The Learning Monday-Friday, 7:00-7:30 am Channel's "Ready, Set, Learn!," a six-hour commercial·free Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am preschool block. Created by award-winning cartoonist Henri Desclez. this series places preschoolers in a wacky classroom "The Magic Box" airs as part ofThe Learning Channel's where the enthusiastic puppet Professor Iris reveals the extraordi· "Ready, Set, Learn!," a six-hour commercial-free preschool nary behind the ordinary - whether it's milk from cows, apples programming block. This half·hour series, considered the in a pie, or the change of seasons. Other puppets, such as The cornerstone ofthe "Ready, Set, Learn!" programming block, Skeleton, The Piano, The Plant, and Ms. Principal, join in the features the whole-language reading techniques developed by songs, dances, and lessons. education pioneer and series producer Wendy Pyc. The musical program uses colorful animated stories, songs, and alphabet
o KIDSNET August 1995 29 games to teach kids to read. Regulars on the show include the series profiles outstanding educators and their techniques, rap singer Alphabet Soup Woman and a cast ofclowns, magi examining such topics as the role of technology in the school, cians, and animals who bring to life the stories and themes innovative instructional methods, and interactive programming depicted in each episode. and teleconferencing. Each episode features 60- second "Teacher Tips" in which teachers share successful ideas and Support Materials: The Learning Channel has published a projects that can spark student interest and enrich the classroom brochure entided "Learning to Read with The Magic Box." The experience, and the humorous "Teacher Horror Stories" brochure offers 20 innovative tips to help parents encourage their segments in which veteran teachers share their favorite "scary" children to read. It is available free, while supplies Jast. to experiences in the classroom. parents and educators by calling (800)443-1212. Teachers may tape this program and maintain it for one year. Support Materials: "Teacher TV" video tapes are also available to purchase. To order by phone, call (800) 229 42oo~ TLC - READY, SET, LEARN!: ZOOBILEE ZOO to order by mail, write NEA Professional Library, PO Box 509, p West Haven, CT 06516. Teacher TV programs have one year Monday-Friday. 7:30-8:00 am taping rights. Monday-Friday. 10:00-10:30 am TLC - TEACHER 1V: SEXUAL HARASSMENT "Zoobilee Zoo" airs as part ofThe Learning Channel's AND SCHOOLS "Ready, Set, Learn!," a six-hour commercial-free preschool E,SM programming block. This half-hour series stars Ben Vereen, Sunday. Augu.st. 06. 12:30-1:00 pm leading an ensemble cast ofsingers, dancers, and acIDrs through adventure in discoveJy, creativity, and fun. vereen is "Mayor This episode looks at how the problem ofsexual Ben," a wise and magical leopard who presides over a Zoo of harassment is tackled through specific school-based policies and animal characters caDed Zoobles, each ofwhom represents a instructional programs. special interest in the crealive arts. TLC - SClENTD'IC AMERICAN WORLD TLC - TEACHER 1V: NATIONAL TEACHER M-J,H CERTDlCATION Wednudays, 8:30-9:00 pm & 1l:30-midnight E,SM Sunday. August, 13. 12:30-1:00 pm From medical advances to engineering, this series gives viewers a glimpse into the latest Don1iers ofscientific technology. "Teacher TV" explorers how educators and others are Scientists wiJJ explore topics such as fmding a new cure for developing the new National Teaching Standards. What issues cancer and predicting earthquakes, as they seek to connect are involwd in this national debate? "Teacher TV" views the current day inventions and advancements to those ofour controversy from all sides and studies how the new standards will ancestors. effect the future ofeducation in our country.
TLC - SMITHSONIAN'S GREAT BATTLES OF THE TLC - TEACHER 1V: TIME C1VILWAR E,SM M-J,H Sunday. August. 20. 12:30-1:00 pm Thursdtzys, 8:00-9:00 pm One ofthe toughest issues ateacher deals with today is that of This I3-part series presents acomprehensive look at the time. This episode focuses on time management From atten miJi1aJy, political and social history ofThe Civil War. The dance to grading exams, teachers willleam how to make the program puts cameras on the battlefield and the viewer in the most ofthe time they have. middle ofhistory. TLC - TEACHER 1V TLC - TEACHER 1V: mGHER ORDER TlllNI\lNG E,SM,HV SKILLS Sundllys. 12:30-1:00 pm E,SM Sunday. Augu.st. 27, 12:30-1:00 pm Discovery Communications, Inc., produces this series with the National Education Association. It is a forum for and by This episode of"Teacher TV" examines a kind of teachers to express their viewpoints on the state ofeducation in learning that goes beyond rote memory to deeper and richer our nation and the role oftechnology in the classroom. The understanding.
30 o KIDSNET August 1995 TLC - THE END OF THE WAR TLC - WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE: COSMIC M-J,H CATASTROPHES Thur~. August. 24. 9:00-10:00 pm M·J,H Tuesdays. 8:00-8:30 pm This hour long documentary is based on the diverse and Saturdllys. 9:00-9:30 pm moving recoUections ofveterans ofVE and VJ Days. In 1994, renowned historian Martin Gilbert began asking for recollections Narrated by Michael Goldfarb, National Public Radio's ofthe closing months ofWWll. He placed his appeals in London Correspondent, this 13 pan series provides a view ofour newspapers and corresponded with people he had been in touch universe as never seen before. Using cutting edge computerized with over the years for his critically acclaimed books on World graphics and animation, photography from observatories around War n. Gilben received hundreds of responses from all over the the globe, and the latest in solar scientific research, each half· world, voicing different perspectives. Through the use of archival hour episode gives an accurate and entenaining glimpse ofthe film, photos, and on-location footage, "The End ofthe War" mysteries and spectacles ofthe Cosmos. brings these letters to life, providing personal insight into the War. TLC -WONDERS OF WEATHER M·J,H TLC - THE REVOLlITIONARY WAR September 1995 M-J,H, F This 13-part series combines time-lapse photography, the November 1995 latest research in meteorology and original computer graphics to This six-pan series, narrated by author and former CBS highlight such forces as lighting, hail, hurricanes, tornadoes and news correspondent, Charles Kurault, will portray the epic war avalanches. and rebellion that forged our nation and defend the American character. "The Revolutionary War" will present little-known anecdotes told by expert historians, participation by battle re enactment groups, period an, maps, documents and magnificent locations, to tell the story of the six year rebellion. ME/(] - OFF-AIR TAPING TLC - THE SECRET LIFE OF MACHINES M-J,H All programming produced by MEIU has been cleared for Wednesdays. 9:30-10:00 pm educators to use in their classrooms without restrictions. For additional information, contact Mind Extension University, 9697 Radios and sewing machines, vacuum cleaners and combus East Mineral Avenue, P.O. Box 3309, Englewood, CO 80155· tible engines. This series reveals the history and mystery behind 3309, (800) 777-MIND. indispensable, conventional technologies. Hosted by British inventor Tim Huskin. Suppon Materials: An Achievement Television Network Guide for use by classroom teachers supports the live, interactive TLC - THIS CENTIJRY teleconferences. Each packet includes the Teacher Guide and M-J,H accompanying student handouts. The Guide is available on Thursdays. 9:00-10:00 am America On-Line (Keyword Achievement TV) or by calling The Mind Extension University Education Center at (800) 777 This anthology presents some ofthe most interesting events, MIND. people and developments ofthe 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Individuals such as Lawrence ofArabia, David Livingstone and MEIU - CAREER ENCOUNTERS Sir Henry Morton Stanley. H,SM Fridays. 1:30-2:00 pm TLC - UNDERSTANDING 4-6, M-J, H, F High school students beginning to think about career paths 1n development, check local listings will enjoy this 1G-part series that explores career opportunities in a variety of challenging and rewarding fields. Teaching, pediatric Walter Cronkite win serve as Executive Editor ofa new medicine, psychology, mechanical engineering, nursing, quaJterly series ofspecials on The Learning Channel that will architecture, health care and radiology are among the fields attempt to explain such complicated science subjects as the examined. microchip, relativity, viruses, black holes, and space flight. Suppon Materials: For suppon materials call (800)777 MIND.
© KIDSNET August 1995 31 MEIU - COMPUI'ER KIDS MEIU •RACE TO SAVE THE PLANET K-3.4-6 M-J.H Sundays. 8:30-9:00 pm Wednesdays. 5:00-6:00 am This program is designed to demonstrate basic computer Covers natural principles governing operations including skins to children ages six to ten. and to create a comfortable humans and the environment. emphasizing the attitudes and familiarity with computer technology for children who may not actions necessary to maintain a healthy ecosystem. have been previously exposed to computers. MEIU - THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION MEIU - DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY H H Saturdizys & SundJzys. 7:30-8:00 am SatwYiay & Sunday. 7:00-7:30 am This series' goal is to develop the sociological thinking of The mysteries of human nature are unveiled in this series on students. All facets ofthis telecourse are focused on engaging the psychology. The programs encourage personal development viewer on an emotional level. utilizing a straightfoward. while stimulating curiosity and critical thinking. New develop documentary approach that provides illustrations ofsociological ments in the field are measu~ against historical breakthroughs. issues and ideas. MFJU - LITERARY VISIONS M-J.H,UT SatwYiaysandSundays. 12:30-1:00 pm This program helps students develop a richer understanding offiction. poetry. and drama and the themes found in many genres. An intmduetion to literature and literary analysis. the M1V • OFF·AIR TAPING: CABU IN THE CLASS series features interviews with a multicultural group of writers. ROOM critics. scholars and actors sharing heir insights on both classic M-J.H, SM and contempomy writing. Dramatizations and reading help students focus on basic clements ofwriting such as chaJacteriza. Educators may m tape specific programs ftom a scheduled. tion and plot. commercial-free programming block. caIledMTVs"Cable in the Classroom." for use in the classroom during school hours. These monthly programs may be taped and maintained for one year. MEIU· MIND EXTENSION UNIVDSIn': THE Other programs outside this time period must not be taped EDUCATION NETWORK F.SM Support Marerial: Teacher's pides and lesson plans for each monthly program are available, along with free to borrow VHS Mind Extension University (MEIU): The Education copies ofthe program by calling (212) 258-8699. the Cable in Network. in association with 25 orthe nation's leading disIanc:e the Classroom Hotline. education providers. offers graduate and undagJaduate degree programs; interactive instruction for high school students. teachers and administrators; test prepmtion courses~ and a complete complement ofpersonal and professional development A programs and courses. For additional information on enrolling or NBC additional classes offered. call (800) 777-MIND. NBC • OFF·AIR TAPING MFJU· NEW MEDIA NEWS The standard H)·day. two-use rights for educators apply to all M-].H NBC broadcasts. Inquiries about the permanent retention and Monday-Friday. 8:00-8:30 pm. check loc41listings use ofOlympic. sports. and entertainment programming should This weekly technology news program emphasizes comput be made to NBC's Clip Licensing Office. Their fax number is ers and their functions in everyday life. In addition to regular (212)664-7541. Direct inquiries about the permanent retention segments about computers and emerging technologies. features and use ofnews programming can be made to: Nancy Cole, include segments like "Tracking the Trends" and "CD-ROM Director News Archives. NBC. 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Room 902. World." New York. NY 10112.
32 o KIDSNET August 1995 NBC - CALIFORNIA DREAMS dancing with Tony Award-winning dancer Gregory Hines and 4-6, M-J, H, CC exploring the wonders ofAlaska on an Alaskan glacier expedi Saturdays, II:30-noon tion. The show is shot entirely on location in various cities around the country and abroad. "California Dreams," chronicles the adventures of the high school rock group. Sly's cousin, Mark (Aaron Jackson) has NBC - SAVED BY THE BELL: THE NEW CLASS moved to town and joined the band. With his passionate idealism 4-6,M-J, CC and sweet disposition - not to mention his gorgeous looks - he Saturdays, lO:30-11:00 am is sure to become a favorite character. Lorena (Diana Uribe) has Saturdays, 11:00-11:30 am a hot-blooded personality with a temper to match - but under the attitude she has a heart of gold. Both join Samantha, Jake, "Saved by the Bell: The New Class," features the escapades and the rest ofthe crew for rehearsals in their new, hip loft-space of six teenagers as they take life head-on. The new class is back: and gigs at surf-side hangouts. In some special episodes, the Now a college student at Cal U., Screech (Dustin Diamond) group win travel to new, outside locations where they'll fmd revisits Bayside High for university credit - he has an internship more adventure and romance. as the Principal's Administrative Assistant. With back to back episodes, the first half hour will feature the gang as they make NBC - FAST BREAK their way through the school day at Bayside High. The second Fall 19.95 will feature allocation episodes as they head out ofthe classroom M-l,H to field trips, vacations, and weekend adventures. This Iive-action comedy series follows a group ofhigh school basketball teammates through the corridors and locker rooms of their high school to the streets of their small home town. The excitement intensifies when a talented, young girl unexpectedly joins the squad. NPR - OFF-AIR TAPING NBC - GULLIVER'S TRAVELS Permission from National Public Radio is required for 4-6, M-l, H, F, LIT educators to tape programs for classroom use. To request 1995/96 season permission, contact Mary Morgan, Department ofPublic Information, NPR, 2025 MStreet NW, Washington, DC 20036, Based on the novel by Jonathan Swift (202) 822-2305.
This four hour mini-serics featuring Ted Danson, tells the NPR - AFROPOP WORLDWIDE story of Lemuel Gulliver, who is shipwrecked and finaUy returns F home after an eight year absence. His wife Mary is overjoyed at Thursdays. 4:00-5:00 pm his return, but her happiness soon turns to fear for his mental health as Gulliwr recounts his bizane odyssey. Gulliver This weekly series explores different styles of music from chronicles visits to the tiny land ofLilliput, its counterpart, contemporary Africa. Bobdingnay, land ofthe giants, as well as his encounters with the Laputans and the Huuyhnhms, a society of beautiful talking NPR - AUDIO CASSEITES AVAILABLE FOR NPR horses. The mini-scrics features Omar Sharif and Mary RACE RELATIONS SERIES Steenburgen, with special effects by Jun Henson Productions. F In a four-part series, NPR reporter John Matisonn NBC - NAME YOUR ADVENTURE compares race relations and conditions here in the US with those K-3, 4-6, M-l, CC in South Africa. Saturdays. 10:00-10:30 am To order an audio cassette ofthis series, send a check for This fast-paced, live-action program lets teens fulfill their $25.00 (payable to National Public Radio) to: National Public most exciting dreams. Mario Lopez is the host and comedian Radio, Audience Services Department, 2025 M Street, NW, Jordan Brady and Tatyana Ali ("Fresh Prince ofBcI-Air") are Washington, DC 20036, (202) 822-2323. contributing hosts. Participants are selected from letters submitted by youths around the country. Lopez and Brady take NPR - BLACKLISTED the lucky viewers on the escapade oftheir dreams, which are M-J,H,F,SM both educational and entertaining. Some adventures that viewers Summer 1995 went on this past season include: swimming with dolphins, tap This dramatic radio series focuses on 19 Hollywood directors
© KIDSNET August 1995 33 and writers - one ofwhom was the late father of producer Tony use ofchildren's music in a variety of genres. Kahn - who were blacklisted in the 1950s. the six half-hour Support Materials: Each week's program of "Picke1beny Pie" programs feature an all-star cast including Josh Mostel playing comes complete with a free curriculum guide for public schools his blacklisted father Zero Mostel. "Blacklisted" will be based on and day care centers. The series is also available on cassette for a Kahn's memories, interviews, his father's letters and diaries and small fee. For more information contact Pickelbeny Pie, 305 3,000-plus pages from FBI ftles. It will use tape from testimony Dickens Way, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, (408) 427-3980 before Congress. Support Materials: A book will accompany the series. NPR - RADIO EXPEDmONS; OCEANS OF LIFE M-J, H, SM, CD, HA NPR· GRANDPA ART (October 1995 check listings) In early October, NPR and the P, K-3, ~, F, SM National Geographic Society will present "Oceans ofLife," a check iocailistings "Radio Expeditions" special. The hour long special examines Award-winning children's recording artist Grandpa Art oceanic biodiversity, the importance ofmaintaining nature's (Arthur Custer) hosts this series of26 quarter-hour programs variety, the effects ofover fishing, and threats to marine species, designed to improve the "science IQ" ofchildren ages 3 to 9. The habitats and ecosystems. The special begins in eastcm Panama at series will feature selections from Grandpa An's "Nature Songs the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and visits sites for Children " Each segment will also feature a conversation with including the coral reefs in the Bahamas, Florida's under water a specia1 guest on a nature-related topic. Speakers will include research habitat, Aquarius, the Pacific Ocean floor, and the guests from the New York Aquarium, the Bronx Zoo, and the world's largest fishing market in Tokyo. "Oceans ofLife" is part American Museum ofNaturaI History. one ofa two-part series on biodiversity underseas and on land. Part two, "Life on the Brink" will air in April 1996. Support Support Materials: Audiocassettes of"Nature Songs for Materials: CDs and audio tapes will be available in October. Children" m available from the Sun Group. Call 1-800-227 Please calf NPR services at (202) 414-3232 for more informa order 2712 for information. tion. NPR • HIROSHIMA: THE lUVEIl REMEMBERS M-J,H NPR· READ TO ME! K-3,~,LIT Fifty years ago this August. the world's first atomic bomb Check iocailistings virtually obliterated Hiroshima. Today Hiroshima is a thriving, rebuilt city, best known among Japanese for its winning pro This serialized radio book review show for kids is hosted by baseba11 team, the Carp. The 30 minute radio documentary popular children's entenaincrs, The Chenille Sisters. Using a "Hiroshima: The River Remembers," searches through the unique storytelling style, "Read to Me!" takes young listeners ~ city for people who remember the devastation of inside the pages ofthe latest children's literature. Each four August 6, 1945. Their voices and stories serve as testamentto a minute segment is devoted exclusively to one book title. Featured day that altered human history. books win include "My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me" by Maya Ange1ou, "The Greatest Table" by Michael 1. NPR· NPR WORLD WIDE WEB SITE Rosen. and "2095" by Jon Sciezka. "Read to Me!" will air on M-J,H,E,F, WWW Public Radio as part ofprogJlllls such as "Parents Journal," "Fresh Air," and "All Things Considered." Check with your local NPR program information, audio snippets of"I'm Carl public radio for air dates and times. KaseU." job offerings, and Bob Mondello movie reviews m available at the NPR. ~b Site at http://www.npr.org NPR· SCIENCE FRIDAY KIDS CONNECI10N M-J, E, SM,WWW NPR· PICKELBERRY PIE September 1995-A.pril 1996 P, K-3, SM, HA Weekly. check locailistings ·Science Friday Kids Connection" is ajoint project ofNPR and KIDSNET accessible via a Home Page the Internet "Pickelberry Pie" is a weekly, 30 minute radio program for Throughout the year, the project will focus on various environ young children ages 3 to 8. The program centers around the lives mental issues, culminating on Earth Day 1996. Seven schools ofthree tiny "Pickelbcrries" whose problems and concerns mirror from across the country have been selected to be key participants, those oftheir young listeners. Each week, host Linda Arnold but all students and teachers win be invited to join in the steps into the "pie" and helps the Picke1berries solve their activities problems with sensitivity and humor. The series is known for its
34 o KIDSNET August 1995 The Home Page will offer activities and information for both provided in the newsletter has also been complied into an index teachers and students, "Science Friday" programming infonna of songs and stories as a resource for educators and librarians. tion, message boards, a searchable database, audio clips from the These resources are available by writing to "We Like Kids," radio program, pictures, and links to other related Internet sites. KTOQ-FM, 224 4th St, Juneau, Alaska 99801, or fax to 1-907 586-3612. In addition, "We Like Kids" has also published three Support Materials: Curriculum resources developed specifi songbooks: "The We Like Kid! Letters & numbers Songbook," cally for this project will be available weekly. "Songbook," and "We Like Kids! Songs for the Earth." Each songbook contains a coUection of30 songs and is accompanied NPR - TEACHERS' GUIDE FOR FAMILY STORIES by a cassette featuring all the songs in the book. E,F,SM Ateachers' guide for "Class of 2000: Family Stories" has been prepared for use with audio tapes ofthe II reports. The guide contains background information about the changes taking place in American family life, suggestions for encouraging students to use storytelling and other strategies to discuss their own family situations and problems, and a list of available aids NICKELODEON - OFF-AIR TAPING for teachers, parents, and students. Both the tapes and the guides are available from NPR. Educators may only tape programs from a scheduled, commercial-free programming block, called "Nickelodeon's For further information, contact Sallie Bodie, NPR Outreach Cable in the Classroom," for use in the classroom during school Coordinator, (202) 822-2844. hours. Nickelodeon has waived all copyright restrictions for "Nick News" and "Launch Box" for 10 years as long as they are NPR - THE PARENTS JOURNAL WITH BOBBI used for non-commercial educational purposes. Other programs CONNER outside this time period must not be taped. F check iocailistings For additional copyright information, contact Nickelodeon, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, (212) 258-7773. "The Parents Journal with Bobbi Conner" is a weekly, syndicated national radio series for parents, grandparents and NICKELODEON - CABLE IN THE CLASSROOM: others who care for and about children. This is not a program NICK ELEMENTARY that dispenses "quick fix" solutions on childrearing, but rather K-3,4~,SM helps parents understand how children develop intellectually, Monday-Friday. 5:30-5:55 am socially, emotionally and physica1ly as well as how they learn. Each week host Bobbi Conner and nationally accJaimed guests Nickelodeon airs a commercial-free programming block discuss a variety ofcontemponuy parenting issues. By discover consisting of"Launch Box," "N"ack News," and "Nick News ing the whys oftheir children's actions, parents can combine this Special Editions," "Mr. WIZard's World" and "Mr. W1ZUd Teacher infonnation with their natural parental intuition and be better to Teacher." "Launch Box" is preceded by short tips for teachers prepared to meet many ofthe challenges of raising children. on how to incorporate the shows in their classrooms. Nlclcel odeon has waived all copyright restrictions for all Cable in the NPR -WE LIKE KIDS Classroom programs for 10 years, as long as they are used for P, K-3, 4-6, F, SM non-commercial educational purposes. weekly, check local listings Support Materials: To receive lesson plans for "Nick This 30 minute radio program, hosted by JeffBrown and an Elementary" programs call 1-800-964-NICK (enter the Cable in assortment ofjunior radio personalities, can be heard on close to the Classroom Menu and press Option 2 for specific monthly 50 NPR stations across the U.S. Each program has a theme curriculum, or Option 3 for workshop tips). the earth, moon, recycling, dogs &eats - and Jeff and the kids weave together an assortment of stories and songs to match it NICKEWDEON - NICK ELEMENTARY: MR. The program is designed to educate while entertaining and help WIZARD'S WORLD K-3,~,SM kids to develop a sense of self-respect, respect for others, and respect for the environment Mondays, 5:30-5:55 am Support Materials: A newsletter which aa:ompanies the This series uses everyday items to explore basic concepts of program lists all the songs and stories played on "We Like science and technology. Host Don Herbert explains scientific Kids"along with distribution/order information. The infonnation phenomena through the use of live demonstrations, experiments,
o KIDSNET August 1995 35 and film clips ofnatural wonders. NICKELODEON - ALLEGRA'S WINDOW P,F,HV Monday-Friday, 11.'00-11 :30 NICKELODEON - NICK ELEMENTARY: TEACHER TO TEACHER WITH MR. WIZARD This preschool show takes a look at life through the eyes ofa E,SM three-year-old. Featuring a mendly community ofcolorful Tuesdays, 5:30-5:55 am puppets and interesting people, each episode uses story and song to teD a complete, simple and captivating story from beginning to This educational series, hosted by Mr. W1Z8I'd, provides end, much like aBroadway musical. At the heart ofthe series is candid, close-up and in«pth visits to classrooms ofoutstanding Allegra, an exuberant puppet who shares the same emotional ups elementary teachers using hands-on, inquiry-based tcchniques to and downs as all preschool children. Allegra uses her inquisitive teach science. nature, vivid imagination and practical resourcefulness to solve problcms, make discoveries, have fun and learn new things. NICKELODEON - NICK ELEMENTARY: NICK Helping Allegra are her older brother, Rondo, her best mend, NEWS Lindi (a puppy), and other family, friends and neighbors. 4-6,SM Wedne.sdays. 5:30-5:55 am Support Materials: Home videos of·Allegra's Wmdow· are available at various retail stores. The kids' news show that asks the question Who? What? Where? and Why? Hosted by journalist Linda EUerbee, "Nick NICKELODEON - ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE News" covers stories with kids in mind. Each 30 minute, DARK! magazine-format episode ofthe program looks at cunmt events 4-6, M-J, LIT that affect kids. It asks the questions that kids in grades four to Sundays. 5:30-6:00 pm six ask and examines serious issues kids want to know more Satu1'days, 9:30-10:00 pm about such as the environment, gender stereotypes, AIDS and toy safety. Inspired by the classic art ofstorytelling, this anthology series begins each episode with a group ofkids known as "The NICKELODEON - NICK ELEMENTARY: NICK Midnight Society" who gather around a campfire to tell scary SPECIAL EDmON stories tiom American folklore that have been passed down for 4-6,SM generations. These tales provide suspense and dramatic tension Wednesdays. 5:30-5:55 am without resorting to violence, blood, and gore. Abig story deserves its own show. When an important issue NICKELODEON - CLAlUSSA EXPLAINS IT ALL needs the entire half hour all to itself, Nickelodeon creates a 4-<), M-], F, CC, HV "Special Edition ofNICk News." Topics like pollution. television Monday-Friday. 5:30-6:00 pm and race relations are discussed in depth with Linda Ellerbee as the host and moderator. This series examines life as seen through the eyes of Clarissa Darting, an imaginative 14-ycar-oId. Clarissa dreams of NICKELODEON - NICK ELEMENTARY: LAUNCH driving, keeps a pet alligator named Elvis in her bedroom, and BOX makes no bones about detailing her likes, dislikes, and fantasies. 4-6,M-], SM A constant in Clarissa's life is the plotting hom her bedroom Fridays, 5:30-5:55 am headquartm against a live-in enemy - her little brother, Ferguson (Ferg-face). The series is designed for classroom use as ajoint -venture with the Astronauts Memorial Foundation and NASA. "Launch Home videos ofthis program are available in local retail Box" is provided to teachers nationwide by Nickelodeon through stores. "Cable in the Classroom." The series includes film and TV footage ofactual NASA missions and activities, coupled with NICKELODEON - DOUG videos produced especially for kids by Nickelodeon. Each 4-6,M-J,HV program begins with 10 minutes ofbackground infonnation and Monday-Friday. 7:00-7:30 pm flexible classroom application for teachers, concluding with a2Q.. Sa.tu1'dIzys, 6:00-6:30 pm minute classroom segment This program features the world ofDoug, an impression For additional information, contact LAUNCH BOX (407) able 11 112-year-oJd who keeps a daily journal ofhis average life, 363-8500 or AMI' (407) 898-3737. which includes banjo playing, daydreaming about Patti Mayon naise, and his dog Porkchop. Doug is forever trying to make his
36 o KIDSNET August 1995 way through the Bluffington universe with his best friend . Skeeter, sister Judy, and school bully Roger Klotz. The key,to his NICKELODEON - HEY DUDE success in getting through the toughest ofscrapes are Doug s 4-6,F imaginings ofhow his brave alter egos (Quailrnan and Secret Saturday. noon-12:30 pm Agent Smash Adams) might behave. Sunday, 3:30-4:00 pm Home videos ofthis program are available in local retail "Hey Dude," a live-action drama, is set on a western dude stores. ranch and stars a cast ofteens who run the ranch. The program is filled with western adventure as the kids continually face new NICKELODEON - EUREEKA'S CASTLE challenges at home on the range. P,HV Monday-Friday, noon-12:30 pm NICKELODEON - JIM BENSON'S MUPPET BA BIES "Eureeka's Castle" is a toy music box inhabited by a P,K-3,CC cast ofpuppet creatures that include: MageUan, a bashful dragon; Monday-Friday. 10:00-10:30 am Batly, a spoiled bat who always wants to be the center of Saturdays, 9:00-10:00 am attention; and Eureeka, a kindhearted lady wizard. The series is designed to explore the changing environment and issues that This program features all ofthe best known characters from preschool children face. "The Muppet Show" - Kennit., Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Animal, Rowlf, and Scooter, as animated versions oftheir Support Materials: Home videos ofthis program are available childhood selves. Playing in their nursery, the youngsters let their at various retail stores. imaginations run wild, and animated sequences are combined with live-action footage to portray the characters' fantasies: a NICKELODEON - GULLAH GULLAH ISLAND book triggers a fantastic adventure down Alice's rabbit hole; a p'F cardboard box becomes Captain Nemo's submarine~ and a Monday-FridlIy, 11:30-noon vacuum cleaner is transfonned into a spaceship. The sing-a-long series stimulates active participation from home viewers around such familiar topics as birthdays, jokes, NICKEWDEON - LEGENDS OF THE BIDDEN shopping, baby animals, rhyming, collecting, drumming and TEMPLE preparing food. With the Daises and their three children at the 4-6,M-J heart ofthe show, a rich variety ofrelatives and neighborhood Monday-Friday. 4:30-5:00 pm children fonn an extended family that always includes the This series encourages kids to use both their mental and viewers, Each episode also includes an exploration ofthe unique physical capabilities as they trek through a Mayan ruin searching culture ofthe Sea Island region along the Carolina and Georgia for legendary artifacts. Six teams compete for the chance to coastline, with an up-closc look: at the community and its people, ~over lost treasures from the temple, a two-and-a-half story, 13 including artists, fisherman, weavers, park rangers, fanners and room structure fined with mysterious rooms. Each ofthe pcrfonners. Joining the kids in song, dance and movement episodes will be themed around a different, fact-based legend. games, abright-yeIJow tree ftog named Binyab Pollywog (a full body puppet) provides an added element offun and imagination NICKELODEON - MR. WIZARD'S WORLD in the Daise home. K-3,4-6, SM Support Materials: Home videos ofthis program are available Monday-Friday. 6:00-6:30 am at various retail stores. This series uses everyday items to explore basic concepts of science and technology. Host Don Herbert explains scientific NICKELODEON - HEY ARNOLD! phenomena through the use oftive demonstrations, experiments, 4-6 and film clips ofnatural wonders. Programs shown on Mondays Fall 1995 and Tuesdays in the 5:30 time slot air as part ofCable in the This animated series is set in the world of subways and Classroom and are commercial-free broadcasts. sandlot baseball, bus stops, comer delis and kick the can, all seen Support Materials: A2o-volume set of"Mr. Wtzard's World" through the eyes ofArnold, an imaginative nine year old boy. videos are available for educational distribution through Mr. Arnold, along with his best friend Gerald, must endure the trials WIZard Institute, 44800 Helm Street, Plymouth, Michigan ofchildhood - playground bullies, secret crushes, snow days 48170, (800) 992-8388. A Study Guide is also available on but their resourcefulness and imagination enable the two friends America On-Line, type keyword: KIDSNET. to triumph over the most challenging urban obstacles.
<::> KIDSNET August 1995 37 NICKELODEON - MAUlUCE SENDAK'S LlITLE environment, prejudice, and education. Hosted by Linda BEAR Ellerbee. P,ur Support Materials: Teacher's Guides are available caJ) 1-800 Mondilys, noon-12:30 pm 258-2344. "Maurice Sendak's Little Bear," the first animated series from the autbor/iUustrator of"Where the Wdd Things Are." The NICKELODEON - NICKELODEON ON-LINE series teUs the story ofa young cub taking his first steps of K-3,~, M-J, F, ON-LINE independence, always under the gentle guidance ofhis caring In Development mother. He learns that even though bear cubs have limitations Nickelodeon On-Line services - available on America On for example they can't fly - imagination and curiosity can open Line -win offer original content for kids including regularly exciting worlds ofexperience and exploration. schcdu1ed events, polling, programming information, bulletin NICKELODEON - MY BROTHER AND ME boards, a Nickelodeon magazine, video clips, sounds and more. 4-6,M-] Sundays, 7:00-7:30 pm NICKELODEON· NICKELODEON WILD SIDE Saturdays, 12:30-1:00 pm SHOW K-3,~,M·J The lives oftwo brothers from a middle class, African Sundays. 3:00-3:30 pm American family in Charlotlc, North Carolina is the focus of"this Based at the San Diego Zoo, kid hosts on "Nickelodeon sliee-of-life c:omedy. The cast is rounded out by the boys' older sister, Melanie, their spons columnist father and their mother, a Wddside" interact with all sorts ofunusual animals and introduce driver's education teacher. "Wild Adventures," previously taped segments from across the country that get up close to animals in their natural habitats. NICKELODEON - NICK JR. "Wild Adventures" are planned with wild horses in Arizona and P,HV grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park Monday-Friday. 9:00 am - 2:00 pm NICKELODEON - PAPA BEAVER'S STORYl'IME "Nick Jr." is the nctwork's preschool programming block. P,ur,HV Programs aired as part of"NICk Jr." includes "Rugrats," "Jim Monday-Friday, 12:30-1:00 pm Henson's Muppet Babies," "The Muppet Show'" "Allegra's Wmdow," "Gullah Gullah Island," "Papa Beaver's Storytime," During each baJf hour episode of"Papa Beaver's Storytime," "Eureeb's Casde," "The Busy World ofRichard Scarry," three little beavers sit and listen to their grandfather, Pap Beaver, "Maurice Sendak's Little Bear," and "Rupert," tell stories from France and other places around the world. Papa beaver's la1es feature charac:ters SlICh as Michka the Bear, Pearly Support Materials: Various NICk Jr. programs are available on Watcrdrop, the Little Red Hen and the Orange Cow. Part ofNick home video ("Eureeka's castle," "Allqra's Wmdow," "Gullah Jr.'5 preschool programming block. Gullah Island" "The Busy World ofRiehard Scarry," &, "Papa Beaver's Storytime") at various retail stores. Support Materials: Four tides from the "Papa Beaver's Story Tune," are available on VIIS for home use at retail stores. NICKELODEON - NICK JR. ROCKS P NICKELODEON· ROCKO'S MODERN LIFE Interstitial programming P,K-3,~,F Sundlly.s, 6:00-6:30 pm NICk Jr. presents abaIf-hour special composed ofthe first Saturdilys, 6:30-7:00 pm music videos created especially for preschoolers. "NICk Jr. Rocks" features kid's music: recorded by top children's artists as This anthropomorphic series takes us on ajourney through well as mainstream musicians. D-town, a squash and stretch world where modem life becomes a twisted caricature and everything is slightly askew. The quick NICKELODEON - NICK NEWS paced cartoon revolves around a wallaby, Rocko, whose day-to K-3,~,SM day ventures zip and bend with wild animated sight gags. Sundays, 8:00-8:30 pm NICKELODEON - ROUNDHOUSE The series focuses on current topics like the presidential 4-6,M·J election and the controversy around Columbus' discovering Sundilys. 7:30-8:00 pm America, as wen as issues ofspecific interest to kids, such as the Avariety show for kids full ofnon-stop original music,
38 o KIDSNET August 1995 dance, and comedy sketches. This program features an ensemble NICKELODEON - THE BUSY WORLD OF RICH cast of a dozen young actors, singers, and dancers who explore ARDSCARRY all aspects of"tween-age." The half-hour show also encourages P, K-3, LIT, SM, HV the use ofimagination by employing such theatrical elements as Mondays, 9:30-10:00 am "found object" props and "playacting." The program is taped Each episode of"The Busy World ofRichard Scarry" includes before a live audience at Nickelodeon studios in Orlando. three six minute stories linked by short musical interstitials that NICKELODEON - RUGRATS teach children basic safety tips and explain how things work. Featured characters include Lowly Worm, Huckle Cat, Hilda K-3,~ Hippo, Sgt Murphy, Mr. Fumble and Bananas Gorilla. This Monday-Friday. 9:00-9:30 am program will be broadcast commercial free. Saturdays. 8:30-9:00 am & 7:30-8:00 pm Sundays, 10:00-10:30 am Support Materials: Home videos of this program can be purchased at local retail stores. By using exaggerated shapes, sizes, and camera angles, this animated program presents a child's perspective ofa boy's life, NICKELODEON - THE SECRET WORLD OF ALEX his dog, and his fellow rugrats. Young Tommy Pickles leads the adventures with his sidekicks Chuckie, Phil and Lil, the twins MACK 4-6, M-] from next door, Tommy's pooch Spike. Monitoring the rugrats' SatW'days, 8:00-8:30 pm mischievous antics is a collec1ion of colorful adult characters, Sundays, 12:30-1:00 pm including Tommy's parents, Stu and Didi Pickle This weekly half hour adventure/comedy series follows an NICKELODEON - RUPERT "ordinary" twelve year«t girl in modem day suburbia who, P,LIT through an accident, mysteriously gains superpowers. Alex uses Tue~Friday. September. 12. noon-12:30 pm her powers not to fight aime, but to try to survive the everyday "Rupert," a young bear in red sweater, yellow checkered trials and tribulations of pretccndom. trousers and scarf, is one ofthe world's longest running children's characters. Rupert possesses a natural curiosity that NICKELODEON - U TO U leads him, along with his fellow residents ofNutwood Village 4-6,M-] Sundays. 2:00-2:30 pm Bill Badger, Algy Pug, Podgy Pig and Tigerlilly - on adventures made for young children in this animated series. "U to U" is an interactive magazine show that encourages kids to be active, rather than passive, viewers oftelevision. All the segments for the weekly, halfhour show are made by kids NICKELODEON - SALUTE YOUR SHORTS who coUaborate with professional artists, animators, musicians F,LIT and designers to create stories, artwork, music, jokes and Monday-Friday. 6:00-6:30 pm questions. "u to U" also features celebrity interviews and sneak Based on the book by Tom Hill and Steve Slavkin previews ofupcoming events. This series features the adventures ofagroup ofkids NICKELODEON -UTO UPRESENTS: LEITERS attending summer camp at Camp Anawanna. Each weelc the OF SUMMER kids learn about life and love while having an adventuresome 4-6, M-], ON-LINE summer. TuesdDy. August. 15. 4:15-4:445 pm NICKELODEON - THE ADVENTURES OF PETE U to Uconnects kids around the world and asks the question: AND PETE "What did you do on your Summer vacation?" Nickelodeon gave ~,M-] kids video cameras to record and share their summertime Sundays. noon-12:30 pm & 6:30-7:00 pm activities. These half hour taped segments are presented as video letters to pen pals who include the entire Uto Uaudience. the This series which is built around larger-than-Iife suburban show introduces a boy from Arizona whose summer vacation heroes and villains explores the "suburban mythology" of lasted ayear and a half when his family traveled in their plan to childhood, as seen through the eyes ofthe two brothers named Alaska and built a log cabin; two girls from Australia who try to Pete. surffor the first time; and a Los Angeles teenager who d0cu ments the art ofsand painting done by visiting Tibetan monks for his summer film class.
o KIDSNET August 1995 39 NICKELODEON -UTO UPRESENTS: LETTERS PBS - 3-2-1 CONTACT OF PLAY 4-6, F, CC, SM 4-6,M-J Moodily-Friday, 11:00-11:30 am, check local listings Thursday, August, 31, 4:15-4:45 pm Moodily-Friday, 5:30-6:00 pm, check local listings What do kids around the world do for fun? Nickelodeon gave This award-winning series introduces the worlds ofscience video cameras to kids for them to document what they do to have and technology to children. agood time and share it with their video pen pals on U to U. In Support Materials: Ateacher's guide containing program Iran, students at a girls' school unwind with a game of volleyball; outlines and suggestions for related activities is available from in Russia a 13 year old chess champion takes on 1S opponents CTW, One Lincoln Plaza, New York, NY 10023. "3-2-1 simultaneously. and in Brazil, a boy attends a school for circus Contact" is available for free taping otr-the-air by teachers performers. provided that tapes are erased after three years. NICKELODEON - WELCOME FRESHMEN A computer software program that provides a database to M-J,F help teachers coordinate their classroom lessons with programs in Saturdays &- SumMys, 4:00-4:30 pm the series or to match chapters ftom textbooks with specific This is a haIf-hour comedy series about the lives offive segments ftom the shows is available from CTW. For further freshmen attending Hawthorne High, in Anytown, USA. Using a infonnation, write 3-2-1 Contact Database, Children's Television shopping mall as its anchor, "Welcome Freshmen" segues from Workshop, One Lincoln Plaza, New York, NY 10023, Attn: conversations at the kids' local hang~ to comedy sketches Laurie Weisman. depicting their rec:ollections, fantasies, and fears. Alex and Kevin are now sophomores, although Walter must stay behind PBS -ADAY IN THE WARSAW GHETTO: A the reason changes depending on who Walter is 1alking to. New BIRTHDAY TRIP IN BELL ~~bers ofthe freshmen class include Erin and Manny, and M-J,H.F, CC JUDlor Grant becomes a focal point as Alex's love interest. Tuudtry, Augut. 29. 10:30-I1:00, check 10Cll1 listings In 1941, Nazi troops barricaded 380,000 Jews - one-third of NICKELODEON - WHAT WOULD YOU DO! the population ofWarsaw - inside the ghetto walls, cutting them F off' from the rest ofthe world. On September 19, 1941 Saturdays, 2:00-2:30 pm Wehrmacht Sergeant Heinz Joest celebrated his 43l'd birthday by taking photos inside the waDs ofthe Warsaw Ghetto, an act . ~ S~mers hosts this half-hour show that puts people munfamiliar SItuations, using hidden cameras, man-on-the-street which was strictly prohibited, even for a ranking German officer interviews, and in-studio stunts to see just how they react in a in unifonn. The photos he took document the bleak existence and given situation. slow death of the individuals held captive behind the waDs. The program intersperses the photos - made public by Joest at age NICKlLODEON - YOURS TRULY 84 - with music and observations ofghetto inhabitants who K-3,4-6 illegally kept diaries. Directed by Jack Kuper, aHolocaust Interstililll pl"Ogramming survivor. Megan Maxwell, a 12-year-old city girl, shares her priva1e PBS -AFIGB'IU. PILOT'S SfOllY thoughts and feelings as she records them in her diary in these M-J,H. F,CC 60-second vignettes. Tuesday, August, 29,9:00-10:30 pm, check local listings To commemorate the SOth anniversaJY ofthe invasion of France -D-Day - public television presents the personal story ~ of a highly decorated World War nfighter pilot. Quentin Aanenson, whose plane, the "Rebel Jack," hangs in the PBS - OFF-AIR TAPING Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, tells his story with still photographs, combat film, World War n era music and the letters Either the standard 1O~y, ~use rights or the seve~y Aanenson and his future wife wrote to each other during the war. ofl'-air rec:ord rights for educators apply to all PBS broadcasts. The story shows the transformation from acocky fighter pilot to Some PBS programs often have extended rights beyond the a professional warrior and ultimately, to an emotionally wounded standard ofl'-air taping guidelines. See PBS programming below survivor who tries to deal with the personal agony ofhaving for additional information regarding specific rights for each killed too much. series.
40 o KIDSNET August 1995 PBS· AMAN AND HIS SCHOOL: THE PROVI· documentary profiles of positive youth activities, and celebrity DENCE-ST. MEL STORY volunteer appeals. Participating PBS affiliates will also add local F,CC components to the program. The "Help-a-thon" will coincide Wednesday. August. 30. 9:30-10:00 pm. check /ocallistings with the national Children's Sabbath, a weekend ofprayer and discussion in Jewish, Muslim, Catholic and Protestant houses of This documentary examines how high standards, hard work worship that focuses on the needs and problems ofAmerica's and discipline result in academic success at an inner city school in young people. Chicago. The program chronicles the mission and methods of school principal Paul Adams, who, despite the challenges of an Support Materials: Children's Sabbath and Help-a-thon inner city neighborhood, leads first through twelfth grade resource materials wiU be available. students to astonishing achievements. Oprah Wmfrey, a strong supporter ofthe school, narrates. PBS· ACT AGAINST VIOLENCE: KIDS AND VIOLENCE: 'WHAT YOU CAN DO PBS •APUBLIC VOICE_'9S H,F H,F,SM 1996 Summer 1995 This one hour special will begin a public education effort to "A Public Voice...'95" wiU address two challenging issues on help parents and caregivers learn ways to help prevent violence. the national agendas - what should be done about juvenile This special will air in 1996. violence? and should immigration be restricted? The program will do so in away that reveals striking distinctions between how PBS - ALIVE lV the press, politicians and the public view these dilemmas. This H,F program will present the public in a unique light, deliberating in Check local listings National Issues Forums in all regions ofthe counny. "Alive TV" offers a coUcetion of30 minute discussions on Support Materials: Videotapes ofthe series will be available race, class, sex and gender presented in eye-opening mediums from PBS Video. video art, animation, drama, travelogue, dance video and satire. August broadcasts include: "No Accident," directed by Michael PBS • ACT AGAINST VIOLENCE Negroponte, is a dialogue between underground and above M-J,H, SM ground reality. Poet John Giomo who performs underground in 1995-1996 8eQSOn, check /ocallistings New York subways addresses an above-world that is too often oblivious ofthose things below (August 4); "Touched" is director In to 1995, The National Campaign Reduce Youth Violence, David Hinton's dance video that contains a subtle dialogue a Corporation for Public Broadcasting initiative, launched "Act between men and women, and "Red Book" by Janie Geiser uses Against VIOlence" a nationwide media and community develop flat, painted puppets figures to explore the point ofview ofa ment effort to combat youth violence. An ofradio program array woman who bas lost her memory (August 11); "Deserts, " by ming and television programs, including PSAs and town video artist Bill VIOla offers a meditation on the idea ofthe desert meetings" will be broadcast on local PBS stations. as a kind oflandsc:ape, a physical place that has primitive Support Material: Currently, elements of"Act Against elements and a future location simultaneously (August 18); and Violcnce" include the distribution of print, video and audio "Father's Daze" is a personal essay by Mark Pellington about his resoun:c materials to schools and community organizations. For father. a former Baltimore Colts linebacker, who suffers from more information contact The National Campaign To Reduce Alzheimer's disease. Youth Violence at (202) 879-9839. PBS - AMAZING GRACE WITH BILL MOYERS PBS - ACT AGAINST VIOLENCE: HELP-A-mON M-J,H,F H,F,SM Wednesday. Augu3t,16. 9:30-11:00 pm. check/ocallistings Saturday, October 21. check local listings This documentary explores one oftile most popular and The live, ~hour "Help-a-than," sponsored by Act Against enduring hymns in the English language. "Across distances of VIOlence, is designed to help recruit volunteers to work with time, nationality and society," host Bill Moyers observes, " young people in their communities. In pledge drive fashion, the 'Amazing Grace' has become a courier ofthe spirit to millions of "Help-a-thon" will ask adults to conttibute their talents and people." Jesse Norman, Judy Collins. JOhMy Cash, Jean Ritchie energies to activities for young people that provide positive and the Boys Choir ofHarlem are among those who sing the alternatives to crime, drugs and violence. The program will hymn and talk about its meaning. The program also teUs the story feature performances by entertainment superstars, mini- ofJohn Newton. the man who wrote the hymn.
o KIDSNET August 1995 41 PBS-ARTHUR PBS - BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY P, K-3, LIT, SM K-3,~, CC, 8M, PTV, WWW Fall 1996 Monday-Friday, 5:30-6:00 pm A series of30 minute animated episodes based on the Bill Nye, scientist/comedian teacher/author takes kids out of adventures ofan aardvark named Arthur. Each episode will the classroom and into the real world to turn them on to the consist oftwo independent stories and will feature original songs wonders of science. The man who'll do anything to demonstrate and music. A "viewer mail" segment of children's letters and a scientific point - including dropping out ofa helicopter into stories about Arthur will separate the segments. the mouth ofMount St. Helens! - uses comedy, special effects and music videos to make science accessible and fun. Segments Support Materials: Two CD-ROMs based on the book series include "Way-Cool Scientist." in which real scientists show kids are available. what it's like to make a living as a scienti~ "Check it Out," a science report with an emphasis on how kids can affect environ PBS - BARNEY &. FRIENDS mental issues; and "Follow Along at Home Experiments," where P, CC, 8M, HV, PTV Bill and young scientists perform experiments that viewers can Mondtry-Friday. 9:3()"'IO:00 am, check local listings safely and easily duplicate. Included as part of"PrY, The Ready Mondtry-Friday. 4:3()"'5:00 pm, check local listings to Learn Service" programming on PBS. Educators may tape and This haIf-hour, live action series, modeled after the popular maintain videocassettes for 3 years. award-winning home video series, "Barney and the Backyard Support Materials: A free science activity kit and teaching Gang" features a purple dinosaur named Bamey. The television kit geared to 4th grade science instruction is available by writing series uses songs. dances. and computer graphics to stimulate a to NYELabs, KCTS,401 Mercer St., Seattle, WA 98104. "Bill child's imagination. All episodes are built around individual Nye The Science Guy" also has his own newsgroup and World themes, each specifically designed to blend education and Wide Web Home Page: go to alt.tv.billnye (you11 need Expert entertainment with viewer puticipation. Included as part of Add) for details. "PTV, The Ready to Learn Service" programming on PBS. VJdeocassettes of"Bamey and the Backyard Gang" are PBS - BLOOPY'S BUDDIES available at local video stores, or contact The Lyons Group, 300 P East Bethany Road, P.O. Box 8000, Allen, TX 7SOO2- 1306, 1996 (800)527-4747, in Texas., (800) 442-4711. "B1oppy's Buddies," a series of30 minute progrIII1S for Support materials: The PBS EJcmcntarylSeconclary Service preschoolers. motivates children to get offthe couch as it delivers has included this program in their Tune-In Guide for teachers the timely messages of resiliency: don't ever be afraid to tty. Set and parents. These Guides highlight the educational value of in BIoopyvilIe. a brightly animated environment in which people upcoming National Program Service programming that will be of live and wort in buildings that symbolize what they do, episodes spedaI interest to schools and families. For more infonnation. will combine various elements in a magazine format please contact your local public television station. Educators Bioopycising routines will be intmpersed with informational may tape this program and maintain videocassettes until April segments dealing with health, body awamtess and safety. The 1998. cast includes children, a young woman who Icads the exercises and sema! Bloopy-like characters. Storytdling and "learning PBS - BA1TLEFIELD adventures" material shot on-location explore new places such as M-J,H,F,CC a eounty fair, are also featured during each episode. Mondays, 9:00-11:00 pm, check local listings Support Materials: A community outreach program has been "BattlefJeJd" is a new military series namted by actor Tim designed to teach children "Bloopy's B.ELL. Philososplty: Be Pigott Smith, uses graphics, original archive film and rare color wel~ Eat wen. Live well, Learn well." Contact 1-8004Bloopy footage to examine six ofthe most important battles ofWorld for more information. War n. The six. two hour programs analyze the battles ofFrance, Britain, Midway, Stalingrad, Nonnandy and Berlin from multiple PBS - BLOOPYCISE BREAKS viewpoints including the military and political circumstances P,K-3,PTV leacting up to each battle: the weaponry, equipment and combat Interstitial the readiness ofthe fighting forces, and uhimate costs to both the A series offifty 30 & 60 second exercise lnaks will air winner and loser. between regularly scheduled chUcRn's programming. "Bloopycise Bn:aks" utilize dance, movement and music to get
42 o KIDSNET August 1995 kids exercising. Included as part of "PTY, The Ready to Learn This 52-part series, based on the concept of language Service" programming on PBS. immersion, is both apublic television series and a ~semes!C" college-level credit course. Stu
o KIDSNET August 1995 43 Children's Television Workshop c~ this television PBS -I'LL FLY AWAY series to develop literacy skills among seven-to-lo-year-old M-J,H, CC children. The series attempts to ease the transition from early to Mondays, 8:00-9:00 pm, check local listings middle elementary grades by helping to build early foundations in The 90-minute movie that preceded the encore broadcasts reading and writing skills, making the printed word exciting and ofthe multi-award-winning series "I'll Fly Away" titled "Then relevant, and motivating young children to read and write. The and Now" features the 63-year-old Lilly in the present day, weekly half-hour mystery/adventure series features a group of relating her experiences with the civil rights movement to her 12· three boys, three girls. and an invisible ghost who solves a year-old grandson. mystery with the word clues the ghost provides. "Ghostwriter" has three-year off-air taping rights. PBS· IN THE MIX Support Materials: A national oU1l'eaCh campaign centered M·J,H, CC, SM around the Ghostwriter series is designed to reach children at Saturdays, 6:00-6:30 pm, check local listings home. in schooL and in community environments. For teacher "In The Mix," a weekly half-hour TV magazine show for materials, contact Therese Kahill. Childrm's Television Work young adults is hosted by an etJmK:alIy diverse ensemble of teens. shop Schools Coordinator. (212) 87~331. The National The show is a blend of issue-oriented segments. celebrity Newspaper Association ofAmerica and the NAA Foundation distributes a newspaper feature for young readers titled "Ghost. profiles, consumer reports. and music videos. Acadre of dynamic, inquisitive teen reporters cover topics ranging from writer." The price ofthis weekly newspaper feature is $90 per AIDS to violence; suicide to eating disorders; model scams to quarter. To order. write or fax a written request to NAA buying used Regular segments include: SHOUT (It Out) Foundation. 11600 Sunrise Valley Drive. Reston, VA 22091. fax: cars. (703) 620-1265. where teens in cities throughout the US voice their opinions on topics ranging from parents to TV commercials to relationships; PBS - GO FIND OUT! Teens Who Make ADifference, which highlights outs1lInding P,K-3,PTV teens nationwide; and Student Shorts, featuring student-produced Interstitial videos that get national exposure on "In The Mix." Support Materials: Special material will be provided for These program breaks, which air as part ofPTY, The Ready ~school to Learn Service, delim- educational messages to kids in a fun and high-school newspapers. Educators may tape way while encouraging them to mater information gathering this program and maintain in perpetuity. PBS Elementary/ skills. Secondary Service has included this program in its Tune-In Guide for 1eachers and parents. These Guides highlight the educational PBS - BlNRY HUGGINS value of upcoming National Program Service programming that K-3,4-6 will be ofspecial interest to schools and families. For more In development, check local listings information, please contact your local public television station. Beverly Cleary's fust children's book character, Henry PBS - K1DSONGS TELEVISION SHOW Huggins, will have his own 13-part television series. Henry is a P.HV IO-year-old boy who has a lot ofadventures and misadventures. check Jocallistingsfor dDtes and times PBS - HOOP DREAMS "The Kidsongs Television Show." is a series aimed M-J,H,F towards educating and entertaining the pre-school audience. The Wednesday. Nowmber 15, 8:00 pm show features a group of children (ages 8 to 12) who come together to produce and direct their own television show for kids. "Hoop Dreams" is the true story oftwo .African-American With a motto of"Madc for kids, by kids, and starring kids," each high school students who dream ofplaying in the National show features the "Kidsongs" music videos which stress phonics, Basketball Association. Fdmed during five years, "Hoop Dreams" music and world cultures. The children will be joined by Busby follows the lives ofWilliam Gates and Arthur Agee fi'om the and Ruby Biggle, fantasy creatures who live in Biggleland have summer after they leave elementary school through their entry the magical ability to be both big and little. into college. They soon discover that their dreams of glory become obscures amid the intense pressures ofacademics. family Support Materials: Home videos ofthis program are available life, economics and athletic competition at various retail stores.
44 C KIDSNET August 1995 PBS - KRATI'S' CREATURES PBS - MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD K-3, 4-6, M-J, SM P, CC, DVS, SM, PTY, WWW Spring 1996 Sundays, 9:00-9:30 am, check iocallistings Monday-Friday. 10:00-10:30 am, check local listings Created for elementary and middle age children, "Kratts' Monday-Friday, 12:30-1:00 pm, check iocallistings Creatures" features hosts Martin Kratt and Chris Kratt as they Monday-Friday, 3:00-3:30 pm, check local listings take kids on fun-filled journeys to the world's jungles, forests and Monday-Friday, 8:30-9:00 am, check iocallistings oceans to explore the wonders of nature and the animal kingdom. The series wiD combine curiosity, humor and scientific knowl "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" continues to encourage and edge to help kids learn in an entertaining way. stimulate emotional growth in preschool children. This program is a half-hour daily series and is included as part of "PTY, The Support Materials: A national outreach campaign id being Ready to Learn Service" programming on PBS. developed by Outreach extensions. National partners include Cooperative Extension Systems/4-H, American Zoo and Support Materials: A range ofsupport materials are available Aquarium Association and the Association ofYouth Museums. In to accompany this program including home videos, newsletters, addition a series ofeducational children's books and other books and booklets for children's and adults, including "Mister ancillary materials are being produced in conjunction with Rogers' Plan and Play Book' (600 fun & easy activities to "Kratts' Creatures." accompany the TV program. Contact Family Communications, 4802 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 for more infonnation. PBS - LAMB CHOP'S PLAY ALONG P, K-3, CC, SM, PTV PBS has also launched a world wide web "Neighborhood" Monday-Friday, noon-12:30 pm, check iocailistings site which features an audio welcome message ftom Mr. Rogers. Other components include searchable monthly PBS program Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop appear in a half-hour listings, and educational program study guides with activities for children's television series. Kids participate actively in songs, K-12 classrooms and a hyperlink directory ofInternet sites with stories, and magic tricks as they sing along, hop along, rhyme K-12 resources. Find the "Neighborhood" at http://www.pbs.org. along, and count along with Shari and Lamb Chop. The interactive program teaches young viewers that it is more fun to be a doer than a viewer. Educators may tape this program and PBS - MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, ##1577 maintain the videocassette for three years. Included as part of P,CC,SM "Pry, The Ready to Learn Service" programming on PBS. Tuuday. August. OJ, 8:30-9:00 am, check local listings Support Materials: The PBS ElementarylSecondary Service Mister Rogers shows a videotape of"How People Make has included this program in its Tune-In Guide for teachers and Books." Mr. McFeely delivers a book with a misprint and they parents. For more information, please contact your local public talk about how some mis1alc:es are easier to fix than others. television station. PBS - MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, ##1578 PBS - LONG AGO & FAR AWAY P,CC,SM K-3,F, LIT, CC, SM Wednuday. August, 02,8:30-9:00 am, check locililistings Saturdays, 6:30-7:00 pm, check Iocailistings "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" week of"Making This series captures the spirit ofchildren's literature, Mistakes" is intended, in part, to help children learn that making showcasing international television programs of classical and mistakes is part ofbeing human. In the Neighborhood ofMake contemporary children's books, folktales, and fairy tales. Believe, puppet Daniel Tiger wonders ifhe's a mistake, but Lady Support Materials: To order a free 32-page Discussion and Aberiin reassures him that he's just fine as he is. Activity Guide, send a check for a $3.00 postage and handling fee to: Anne Weinstock, Print Projects, WGBH, 125 Western PBS - MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, ##1579 Avenue, Boston, MA 02134. Seven~y off-air record rights are P,CC,SM available with this program. The PBS Elementary/Secondary ThursdlJy, August, 03, 8:30-9:00 am, check iocallistings Service has included this program in its Tune-In Guide for teachers and parents. For more information, please contact your Mister Rogers visits concert pianist Andre Watts, who local public television station. plays some of his favorite compositions and talks about how making mis1alc:es helps him be a better pianist.
1'0 KIDSNET August 1995 45 PBS· MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, #1580 life - the fU'St days of school. Mister Rogers visits a nursery P,CC,SM school and kindergarten classroom and discusses with a teacher Friday, August, 04, 8:30-9:00 am, check local listings the similarities and differences between the two. In the Neighbor hood ofMake-Believe, King Friday has given permission to begin Andy Holiner, teaches a group ofchildren some folk construction on a new school. songs. It's Poetry Reading Day in the Neighborhood ofMake Believe, and Prince Tuesday learns that even fathers can make mistakes sometimes. PBS • MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, ##1461 P, K-3, CC, SM PBS· MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, ##1386 Tuesday. August. /5, 8:30-9:00 am, check local listings P,CC,SM Monday, August, 07, 8:30-9:00 am. check local listings Mister Rogers visits a first grade classroom and compares kindergarten and first grade with a teacher. An important point Mister Rogers shows a film about kindcrgalten, talks Mister Rogers makes is that the best prepamtion for school is a about why children go to schoo~ and discusses how different desire to learn. In the Neighborhood ofMake Believe, Lady children feel about going. At Trow's Workshop, Mister Rogers Elaine Fairchilde is trying to help Prince Tuesday get ready for experiments with silk screening. In the Neighborhood ofMake school. Believe, King Friday makes a royal appearance on MGR-TV to grant Lady Elaine a broadcasting license. PBS· MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, #1463 P,CC,SM PBS· MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, ##1387 Wednesday, August, /6, 8:30-9:00 am, check local listings P,CC,SM Mister Rogers stresses that it is not necessary to know about Tuesday, August, 08. 8:30-9:00 am. check 1oc411istings everything before one begins school. In the Neighborhood of Make Believe, Lady Elaine Fairchilde tries to help Daniel Tiger Chrissy Thompson is this week's guest She is the get ready for his first day ofschool by making him learn numbers granddaughter ofMr. and Mrs. McFeely and has Spina Bifida. and letters, but she only succeeds in making him apprehensive. Mister Rogers learns how avideo tape recorder works at Negri's Music Shop. Mr. McFeely shows afilm about his PBS· MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, ##1464 granddaughter's activities in school. In the Neighborhood of P,CC,SM Make-Believe, Lady Aberlin gets a handy contraption that makes Thursday, August, 17, 8:30-9:00 am. check loCQllistJ"ngs her job as a cameraperson easier. Pretending is a good way to learn. In the Neighborhood of PBS • MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, ##1318 Make Believe, Prince Tuesday, Daniel Tiger and Ana Platypus begin their first day ofschool! Mister Rogers suggests that P,CC,SM children could play about going to school and what it might be Wednesday, August, 09. 8:30-9:00 am, check local listings like. Mister Rogers helps Chrissy and Terri Thompson put the finishing touches on their puppet S1Ige at Elsie Neal's Craft PBS· MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, ##1465 Shop. In the Neighborhood ofMake-Believe, Bob Dog's pretend P,CC,SM witch costume fiightens Henrietta. FridIzy. August, /8,8:30-9:00 am, check local listings PBS • MIStER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, ##1389 Mister Rogers talks about teachers and some ofthe ways they P,CC,SM help children to learn. Also, Mister Rogers talks with aschool Thursdo.y. August, 10, 8:30-9:00 am, check local listings bus driver and takes a ride on a bus. In the Neighborhood of Make Believe, King Friday and Dr. &: Mrs., Platypus are anxious Mister Rogers has a caring conversation with Chrissy to see their children at the end ofthe school day. The first week Thompson on the back porch while he shines his shoes. In the ofschool is a big event for children, but it is also a big event for Neighborhood ofMake-Believe, playing with a witch puppet and parents. making up a song about what fiightens her helps Henrietta. PBS· MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, ##1606 PBS· MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, #1461 P, CC,SM P,CC,SM Monday. August 21, 8:30-9:00 am, check local listings Monday. August, /4, 8:30-9:00 am, check local listings Mister Rogers visits the San Diego Wild Animal Park. Guide Mister Rogers talks about a my important time in a child's Joan Embery shows him live giraffes, elephants, tigers and other
46 C KIDSNET August 1995 animals like the pretend ones featured in this week's musical PBS - MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, #1687 story for children, "Josephine the Short-Neck Giraffe." p,eC,SM Tuesday. August, 29, 8: 30-9:00 am. check toea/listings PBS - MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, #1607 Even though identical twins look alike, each one is unique. p,ee,SM Exercise teacher, Marilyn Barnett, visits with twins who do Tuesdlly. August, 22. 8:30-9:00 am. check local listings "mirror" exercises. Mr. McFeely surprises Mister Rogers with a Mister Rogers visits a fl1m processing plant to learn how gift ofwooden shoes and a videotape ofhow people make them. people tum an unexposed roll offilm into finished photogmphs. Mister Rogers reads a book with photos of children with In the Neighborhood ofMake-Believe, the Neighbors continue disabilities who can do some exercises and not others - yet each their preparations for "Josephine the Short-Neck Giraffe," Fred one is special. Rogers' 13th musical story for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. PBS - MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, #1688 p,ee,SM PBS - MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, #1608 Wednesday. August. 30. 8:30-9:00 am. check local listings p,ee,SM Wednesday. August. 23, 8:30-9:00 am, check local listings All kinds ofguitars today! Joe Negri's guitar music adds to the fun ofMister Rogers' book ofchildren wearing animal costumes. The Neighborhood ofMake-Believe presents "Josephine Mr. McFeely visits with a video showing how people make the Short-Neck Giraffe," a musical story for children by Fred guitars, and Mister Rogers strums anew tune on his cardboard Rogers. Today we meet Josephine, who feels badly because her guitar. neck is short. Her mend, Hazel elephant, suggests that Josephine may feel more accepting ofherself ifshe attends the School for Growing. PBS - MISTER. ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, #1689 P,SM Thursday. August. 31, 8:30-9:00 am, check /ocallistings PBS - MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, #1609 p,ee,SM Who does the puppet voices in the Neighborhood ofMake Thursday. August. 24, 8:30-9:00 am, check local listings Believe? In another effort to de-mystify his television program, Mister Rogers shows how be works some ofthe puppets and As Fred Rogers' musical story for children, "Josephine visits with Lenny Meledandri, who does the voice for Prince the Short-Neck Giraffe" continues, Josephine and Hazel Tuesday...and also teaches Italian. In the Neighborhood ofMake Elephant enroll at the School for Growing, where they meet a Believe, Prince Tuesday's friends help him know he is special snake who can't hiss, an elephant with stripes and avery shy because ofwho he is inside, not because of his ~Iy robe. giraffe. But Josephine remains discouraged that her neck is short, and decides to leave the school. PBS - MISTER. ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, #1690 P,SM PBS - MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, #1610 Friday. September, 01. 8:30-9:00 am, check local listings p,ee,SM Fridizy. August, 25. 8:30-9:00 am. check toea/listings A surprise birthday celebration in the Neighborhood ofMake Believe helps eorney feel special today. Humming into a kazoo, "Josephine the Short-Neck Giraffe, "Fred Rogers' 13th Mister Rogers plays a birthday song and finds out how people musical story for children. concludes today as shy lR. Giraffe make kazoos. Blind musician, Eric Kloss, plays different flutes helps Josephine learn to accept her neck the way it is, and each with its own unique sound. Josephine helps J.R. feel more confident The musical ends with everyone singing, "I'm Glad fm the Way I Am." PBS - NATIONAL GEOGRAPmC SPECIALS: LOST KINGDOMS OF THE MAYA PBS - MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD, #1686 4-6,M-J,H, F, ee p,ee,SM Wednesday. August. 09, 8:00-9:00 pm, check local listings Monday. August, 28. 8:30-9:00 am. check loeal listings This special examines the ancient culture ofthe Maya, one of There's only one person in the whole world exactly like you the most highly developed civilizations ofits time. "Lost -:iust look in the mirror! This week of programs is full of Kingdoms" visits ruins ofMayan cities, re-creates ancient rituals, messages helping children appreciate their uniqueness and feel and features surviving descendants ofthe Maya to help viewers special. Even the raisin-nut sandwiches that Maggie Stewart and gain an insight into the past, present and future ofthis once ehefBrockett make are all different. There's also a videotape dynamic culture showing how people make dinner plates
o KIDSNET August 1995 47 PBS - NATIONAL GEOGRAPmC SPECIAL: KEEP This science documentary series is in its 20th season. ERS OF THE WILD Educators interested in purchasing or renting any NOVA 4-6, M-], II,F, CC, SM program should contact The WGBH Collection, (800) 828 Wednesday. August, 23, 8:00-9:00 pm WGBII, or write to The WGBH Collection, P.O. Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543. Eight unique animal keepers and their charges are profiled by National Geographic. In Dallas, Texas zoo keeper Support Materials: An expanded teacher's guide featuring Michele White House helps to transfer orangutan Pumpkin to a lesson plans, student activity sheets. and a 32-page student private primate sanctuary, after helping to nurse him back to magazine is available for $4.50 from NOVA guide. S&D Printing health from a nearly fatal illness. In Africa. former zoo keeper and Mailing, Easton Industrial Park, 6 Norfolk Avenue, South Andy Lodge works at sanctuary created by Anna Merz for many Easton, MA 02375. Program transcripts are available for $5 per ofKenya's few remaining rhinos. In Atlanta, Sue Barnard and copy ($10 for programs broadcast before 1985). Please make her volunteers care for sick and injured bats, championing the checks payable to WGBH Transcripts. Address orders to: cause ofthis misunderstood and often maligned creature. NOVA, (include program title), Journal Graphics, ]535 Grant Street, Denver, CO 80203, (303) 831-9000. Most NOVA productions are available for schools, libraries, and organizations PBS - NATIONAL GEOGllAPmC SPECIAL: SUR for purchase or rental. For more information, contact THE VIVORS OF THE SKELETON COAST WGBH Collection, P.O. Box 2053, Princeton, N] 08543, (800) 4-6, M-], II,F, CC, SM 828-WGBR Wednesday. August, 30, 8:00-9:00 pm, check local listings For the past nine years. Des and Jen Bartlett have PBS - ON VALUES: TALKING WITH PEGGY traveled the Skeleton Coast in the southwest Aftican country of NOONAN Namibia, tracking and filming a surprising array ofdesert F,CC,DVS dwelling wildlife. By scaling sand dunes in aIJ-temin vehicles or Tlntrsday, August, 24, 8:00-9:00 pm, check IDeal listings Oying their lightweight aittraft, the Bardetts have patiently ThW'sday, August, 31, 8:00-9:00 pm, cheek local listings documented how these rugged creatures have adapted to and Many Americans, regardless oftheir political persuasion, survived years ofharsh ex1mnes in this desolate region. believe that the country's fundamental institutions have lost PBS - NEWTON'S APPLE sway. Host Peggy Noonan and guests examine specific areas where the debate over national identity has been most volatile: 4-6, M-J. F. CC. SM the family, faith and culture. Saturt:lllys, 3:00-3:30 pm, check local listings Host David Heil joins field correspondent Peggy Knapp, PBS - PTV, THE READY TO LEARN SERVICE naturalist Nancy Gibson and guest experts to discover scientific P, K-3, 4-6, CC, 8M phenomena, how things work, and special animals. "Newton's PTV is a comprehensive school readiness initiative that Apple" explores North America's scientifIC landscape, from the combines programming with extensive outreach services for Canadian Arctic to Northern California. children ages two to 12. PTV taps the energies ofpublic Support Mataials: To order a free teacher's guide created television stations and their parInCI'S - community 01pJlizations, by the National Science Teachas Assoc:iaDon, write Newton's civic groups, schools, businesses, government and social services Apple Teacher's Guide, TeIEd, 7449 Melrose Avenue, Los agencies - to give parents and other caregivers tools, training Angeles. CA 90046. (213) 655-8970 or NSTA-SST, 1742 and materials that teach them to more etTectiveIy harness the Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20009. Educators positive power of TV to prepare kids for school. PTV responds to may tape "Newton's Apple" and keep itfor three years. These the National Education Goal that all children start school ready rights apply to aU "Newton's Apple" programs now being aired. by the year 2000. PTV programming includes "child friendly" For more information about these new exta1ded ofl'1ir record bIoc:ks of programming and innovative program breaks that rights, contactLynac Berge, (612) 229-14]4. The PBS deliver educational messages. E1ementarylSecondary Service has included this program in its Programs that are part ofPTV include: "Barney." "Bill Nyc Tune-In Guide for teaehers and parents. For more information, The Science Guy," "Lamb Chop's Play-Along," "Mister Roger's please contact your local public television station. Neighborhood," "Reading Rainbow," "Sesame Street," PBS-NOVA "Storytime." "The Puzzle Place," "Where in the World is Sandiego?" and "Wishbone" (see individual listings for M-J. II, F, CC, SM Carmen more information on these programs). Tuesdays, 8:00-9:00 pm, check local listings Support Materials: PTV features a variety offamily and
48 C KIDSNET August 1995 caregivers materials for distribution by local PBS stations, Viewers explore chain reactions through the eyes ofa including guides. a magazine and a bimonthly English-5panish little boy and a visiting mouse with a taste for cookies. Also, calendar of programming activities. Local stations offer various Host I.eVar Burton takes viewers to a bowling center where he outreach services and activities. For additional information, tries to master the chain reactions involved in bowling. contact your local PBS station or PTV at 703-739-5399.
PBS· RAlN OF RUIN: THE BOMBING OF PBS - READING RAINBOW: IS THIS AHOUSE NAGASAKI FOR HERMIT CRAB! M-J,H, F,CC K-3,CC,LIT Tuesday, August, 08, 9:00-10:00 pm, check local listings Wednesday, August, 02, 4:00-4:30 PM, check local listings The 75 hours between the atomic bombings ofHiroshima and Finding the right home takes an interesting twist when Nagasaki are among the most misunderstood in history. On the the home is carned around your back. Host I.eVar Burton takes a 50th anniversary of the end ofWorld War IT, this program look at animal real estate and shows his favorite flying neighbors presents the views ofscholars and eyewitnesses to provide an a house in his backyard. intriguing picture ofthis turning point in history and offers an account ofthe contradictions, interrelationships and ambiguities PBS· READlNG RAINBOW: AND STll.L THE ofpolitics and military strategies in times ofwar. TURTLE WATCHED K·3,CC,LIT ThIlTsday. August, 03, 4:00-4:30 pm, check local listings PBS· READING RAINBOW K-3, CC. 8M, LIT, PTV "And Still the Turtle Watched" recounts the timeless Monday-Friday, check local listings message of our responsibility to nature and our environment I.eVar explores various ways that children and adults are working '"Reading Rainbow'" is amagazine series hosted by I.eVar together to protect and preserve the earth. Burton that introduces young viewers to a varie1y of reading adventures. Picture books appropriate for beginning readers are PBS •READING RAINBOW: JUNE 29, 1999 adapted for each episode and are shown along with a medley of K-3,CC,LIT segments relating to each book's theme to motivate youngsters to Friday, August, 04, 4:00-4:30 pm, check local listings make reading a part oftheir lives. Each episode includes a segment where children review books they have read. Included Far fetched fact and fiction are explored in "June 29, as pan of"PTV, The Ready to Learn Service" programming on 1999." A science project apparently gone awry takes viewers to a PBS. whimsical world ofscience-fiction - or is it fact? Support Materials: "Reading Rainbow" is availabJe for free 1aping off-tbe-air by _hers as long as tapes are erased after PBS· READING RAINBOW: NOSEY MRS.lL\T three years. For information on teacher's guides, science guides, K-3,CC,LIT The Reading Rainbow Packet (includes Booldist and other RR Monday, August, 07, 4:00-4:30 pm, check local listings series information), or purchasing and renting a videocassette of When does a healthy curiosity become annoyingly any "Reading Rainbow" program, write Reading Rainbow, Great nosey? When you have a nosey neighbor! This episode takes a Plains National (GPN), P.O. Box 80669, Lincoln NE 68501 or humorous look at snooping around, and shows how an investiga call (800)2284630. The price for "Reading Rainbow'" cassettes tive mind can lead to great discoveries. In an infonnative is $52.50 to purchase and $30.00 to rent for one week. A interview, primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, explains how her own "Reading Rainbow'" record with 20 original "Reading Rainbow" curiosity helped her become a leading scientist in the study of tunes is available from Harper &. Row Publishing, Inc., Special primates. Markets Department, 10 East S3rd Street, New York, NY ]0022, (800) 638-3030. The PBS ElementaJy/Sccondary Service has included this program in its Tune-In Guide for teachers and PBS· READING RAINBOW: BORREGUITA AND parents. For more information, please contact your local public THE COYOTE television station. K-3,CC,LIT Tuesday. August. 08,4:00-4:30 pm, check local listings PBS· READING RAINBOW: IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE ACOOKIE Alittle lamb uses her wits to gain the upper hand and K-3,CC,LIT outsmart a hungry coyote. LeVar explores the sights and sounds Tuesday, August, 01,4:00-4:30 pm, check local listings of his Mexican-American neighbors, and interviews the musical
o KIDSNET August 1995 49 group Los Lobos, who invite LeVar to their home for a fun-filled ajourney through an intricate network, sometimes spanning the fiesta. world in an effort to get the mail delivered on time. Levar takes viewers behind the scenes ofthe postal service and introduces PBS - READING RAINBOW: SUMMER some of the dedicated staff who bring us closer to the people we K-3, CC,LIT care about, no matter how far away they are. Wednesday. August, 09, 4:00-4:30 pm, check local listings Lemonade on a garden porch; pumpkins and rust colored PBS· READING RAINBOW: STELLALUNA leaves; hot cocoa and snowmen; brightly colored tulips and K-3,CC,UT singing birds - the unique drama created by each season is Wednesday. August, 16, 4:00-4:30 pm, check local listings explored in "Summer." LeVar cycles through the seasons and The channing story ofa baby bat who is separated from shows just how special each seasonal change is to the plants, her mother and ends up being raised in a most peculiar way by a animals and world around us. fimily ofbirds. LeVar discovers a mysterious and fascinating world of nocturnal animals, and explores the not-so-siJent world PBS - READING RAINBOW: ONCE THERE WAS A of slumber and dreams. TREE K-3,CC Thursday. August. 10, 4:00-4:30 pm, check locallislings PBS· READING RAINBOW: MY SHADOW K-3,CC,UT "Once there Was a Tree," IIIJTIted by Eli Wallach, Thursday, August, 17, 4:00-4:30 pm, check loco.llistings beautifuUy weaves together the important relationship among all Jiving things, and our dependence on trees for food, shelter and "My Shadow" examines our fascination with light and the air we breathe. LeVar explores the magnificent life cycle of shadows: how they work, where they come fiom and how they trees in the forest and their importance to humans, animals and create such beautiful imagery together. LeVar demonstrates how the planet light and shadow can be used to teU the time, and even gets some fun lessons on the art of creating shadow puppets, as he sheds a lit1Ie light on shadows. PBS - READING RAINBOW: APPELEMANDO'S DREAMS K-3,CC,LIT PBS· READING RAINBOW: Rum LAW TBlULLS Friday. August. 11,4:00-4:30pm, check local listings ANATION K-3,CC,UT Narrated by Michael Leamcd, "AppeIenwIdo's Fridtly. August, 18, 4;00-4:30 pm, check local listings Drams," is the story ofa little boy who uses his dreams to create colorful images that brighten the world for himselfand his This story takes viewers on awhirlwind adventure, mends. LeVar demonstrates fun and creative ways to spark the exploring some ofthe unsung heroines ofaviation. Take atrip imagination and inspire the artist in all of us. through time, from the barnstorming days ofBCSIie Coleman, to the modem aviation machines oftoday, and witness a teenage pilot take to the air for the rust time, following in the footsteps of PBS -READING RAINBOW: THE LOTUS SEED the great women who went before her. K-3,CC,LIT Monday. August. 14, 4:()().4:30pm, check local listings PBS· READING RAINBOW: TIGKf TIMES The touching story ofa young Vaetnamese woman who K-3,CC,UT when forted to flee ber c:ountry, brings alotus seed with her as a Monday. August. 21, 4:00-4:30 pm, check locallirtings warm reminder ofher past. LeVar explores how traditions and heritage are passed down through generations when he meets LeVar Burton shows his friends how to have a great time fimilies who have come to the United States and embraced more without spending a dime, including checking out the public than one culture. libraJy.
PBS - READING RAINBOW: HAIL TO MAIL PBS· READING RAINBOW: MISS NELSON IS K-3, CC,LIT BACK Tuesday, August. 15, 4:00-4;30 pm, check local listings K-3,CC,UT Tuesday. August, 22, 4:00-4:30 pm, check local listings The seemingly simple act ofmailing a letter is revealed as Namted by Ruth Buzzi, this book is about surprises.
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