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Thinkabout (UK TV Series)
Thinkabout is a name used for two unrelated children's educational television series: * Thinkabout (US TV series), US educational television series from 1979; seen mainly on PBS stations * Thinkabout (UK TV series), a 1984 to 1986 BBC Two's in-school science programme for children; revived from 1990 to 1992 as Thinkabout Science {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thinkabout (US TV Series)
''Thinkabout'', "a cooperative project for acquiring skills essential to learning", is an instructional program for children, produced in 1979 by the Agency for Instructional Television, in association with various contributing television stations in the United States and Canada. It was distributed to PBS and educational stations across the US and Canada as late as the mid-to-late 1980s. A sequel, '' Thinkabout II'', followed. The 60 programs produced were aimed for fifth and sixth grade students to understand their learning process in topics as varied as language arts, mathematics, study skills, as well as thinking skills. ''Thinkabout'' was funded by various state and local agencies, including the Exxon Corporation, with additional support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, one of very few CPB-funded programs not distributed by PBS. Program listing *1. Why Bother? *2. Brainstorming *3. Blockbusting *4. You Can Remember *5. Estimating *6. Approximating *7. Using ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thinkabout (UK TV Series)
Thinkabout is a name used for two unrelated children's educational television series: * Thinkabout (US TV series), US educational television series from 1979; seen mainly on PBS stations * Thinkabout (UK TV series), a 1984 to 1986 BBC Two's in-school science programme for children; revived from 1990 to 1992 as Thinkabout Science {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio channels, it is funded by the television licence, and is therefore free of commercial advertising. It is a comparatively well-funded public-service network, regularly attaining a much higher audience share than most public-service networks worldwide. Originally styled BBC2, it was the third British television station to be launched (starting on 21 April 1964), and from 1 July 1967, Europe's first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour. It was envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming, and while this tendency has continued to date, most special-interest programmes of a kind previously broadcast on BBC Two, for example the BBC Proms, no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
