Here’s How (dropped from the WVIZ/PBS collection)
Curriculum Areas: Science
Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
Show Length: Twenty 10-minute programs
Usage Rights: Expired
Production Date: 1991
Distributor: TVO 1-800-331-9566 http://www.tvontario.org/sales
Availability: No longer available from WVIZ/PBS
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CLOSED CAPTIONED: YES
This program has been dropped from the WVIZ/PBS Instructional Television collection. If you have already obtained a copy of this program on tape or DVD from WVIZ/PBS through broadcast or duplication, your rights to that copy have expired; you can contact the distributor, TVO, to purchase retention rights for your copy.
How does it work? How is it made? Whose idea was it? Here’s How! attempts to answer some of the questions that fill a child’s world. In straightforward documentary style, with commentary from an animated balloon, a white mouse, and children in the classroom, each program examines a process or invention. Starting with some historical background on the featured item or procedure (these range from hockey pucks to houses, Popsicles to postal systems), the 10-minute programs feature related classroom projects, show the modern manufacturing or construction process, and finally offer suggestions for follow-up activities. An ideal series to motivate whole-language activities.
1. Balls
2. Bicycles & Pucks
3. Crayons & Markers
4. Balloons
5. Chewing Gum
6. Elevators
7. Peanuts
8. Radio & Television
9. Clocks & Watches
10. Ice Cream & Popsicles
11. The Postal Station
12. Light Bulbs
13. Roads & Bridges
14. Tunnels
15. Dolls
16. Trucks
17. Houses
18. Soup
19. Printing a Newspaper
20. Soap
