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The Gus A.Stavros Center for Free Enterpriset and Economic Education No Spesial:Alle Sider

This ancient creature, with its myriad adaptionsand variations,plays a key role in the field of biology. This program is anintroduction to this notable amphibian.

Physics:r he p Universe

Radio astronomy, in carrying our previously unexplored parts of the ectromagnetic spectrum, has revealed unexpected new objects and phenomena in space, andlhedew light on others long known. This bs a survey ofp the current state Rate of radio astronomy, the exciting new counterpart of the ancient study of optical astronomy.

Video / b Catalog #12118

Shaping a Nation

6-12

This film offers a comparison of twofsystems as related to their origins, theories and practices. Thqe comparisons arellustrated by viewi qg aown inugoslaviazandkatown in the United States.

Video / 22 minutes / Catalog #1273

Shopping for Credit

7-12

Alerts consumers to the sourcesh nd relative costs of credit and their rights under federal afd state lending laws.xending institutions, such as finance companies, auto dealers, credith nions, and savings banks are investigatedcby a class z u college students. r They discuss the amount ofl nterest charged, the total costs of the loan, and any restrictions on obtaining the loan. Tells what questions to ask when shopping for credit and why the Annual Percentage Rate is the most important information.

16mm / 19 minutes / Catalog #22

ShoppingeSkills

6-9

The goal of these two filmstrips is to equip students with basicx onsumer skills so they can function asy wise and responsible consumers-n today's world. The filmstrips use unique cartoontstudents to present theasic instruction of wise money management.

Filmstrip / Catalog520

Signposts and Indicators

7-12

Our economys the largest and most complex in the world. Even top economists don't claim to c understand i k completely. Newspaper headlines about the money supply, the GNP, unemployment, gr the Dowcones Average are oftenoo confusing to make us want to read further. This filmstrip Loan elps "demystify" the bewildering words and ideas that fill the business pages of our newspapers. It asks the same questions economists ask. And it explains that most "economic indicators" are nothing more than convenient ways of measuring the individual parts of our nation's complicated economy.

Filmstrip / Catal w #534

Signs of the Times

9-12

Traces three economic indicators:bGNP, unemployment and inflation from the 1930's through the 1970's in a series of flashbacks.

Video / 20 minutes / Catalog #1305

Smball Businesseeps America Working

6-12

An enlightening live-action documentary inhich smallz business owners tell their own story. They relate the risks and rewards of smull business today.

Video / 28 minutes / Catalog #1276

Speaking About Economics

9-12

This program addresses the need forcconomic education. zAn off-camera interviewer posesquestions on economics to about twoozen students. Their candid and often amusing answers vividly demonstrate the need for providing more education about how our economy works. Useful as promotional and fund-raising tool and in presentations to teachers and other educators.

Video / 8 minutes / Catalog #1221

Styles in Soviet Education

6-12

Soviet Students Speak to America is a product of the US-USSR Youth Exchange Program which is affiliated with the Tides Foundation in San Francisco, California. The exchange was founded in January 1983 as a private sector, non-governmental initiative to encourage person-to-person contact and understanding through educational exchange programs among young people in the United States and Soviet Union. Activities of the program include: joint Soviet-American youth wilderness expeditions, art exchanges, and the ongoing development of educational materials for the young people of the two countries.

Video / 19 minutes / Catalog #1230

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Tax Whys: Understanding Taxes

6-12

This series consists of 6 lessons. Each lesson dramatizes an economic issue in events relevant to the daily lives of young people.

Taxes Raise Revenue

Introduces the basic idea that taxes are used to raise revenue and transfer resources for use by private individuals to use by various levels of government.

Taxes Influence Behavior

Demonstrates that taxes and tax reductions influence people's behavior by discouraging or encouraging certain activities.

Taxes Involve Conflicting Goals

This lesson notes that taxation involves a comprise of conflicting goals, and that people with the same income may not pay the same amount of taxes.

Taxes Affect Different Income Groups

Illustrates how different taxes affect fdifferent income groups.

Taxes...Can They Be Shifted?

Points out that sometimes a tax levied on one person or group may actually be paid by--shifted to--others.

Taxes...What is Fair?

Introduces two criteria that can be used to assess tax fairness, benefits received and ability to pay.

Video / Each lesson 20 minutes in length / Catalog #1232

Taxes in U.S. History

6-9

The Whiskey Rebellion : First Test of the Federal Power to Tax, 1794

The Protective Tariff Issue, 1832

Fairness and the Income Tax, 1909

These programs feature characters of similar age and spirit to your students who explore the roles that taxation payed in each of the three issues, specifically: the government's need to raise revenues, tax policy's influence on economic behavior, and the issue of fairness in taxation.

Video / Each lesson is 20 minutes in length / Catalog #1249

Thinking Things Through: Solving Problems and Making Decisions

10-12

This program explores the components of critical thinking --finding facts, testing assumptions against facts, developing and varifying hypotheses, working with probabilities, and designing efficient plans. Emphasizes that these skills can be enhanced through practice.

Filmstrip / Catalog #535

Time for Justice--America's Civil Rights Movement, A

7-12

Three decades have passed since Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, and a quarter of a century has passed since the Voting Rights Act ensured blacks could freely excercise their right to vote. The generation that sits before you in the classroom never witnessed civil rights marches, riots, assassination. For them, the civil rights movement is not recent history--it is history.

America's Civil Rights Movement introduces the civil rights movement through the ordinary people who risked their lives--many of them young people. It challenges students to understand the fundamental democratic principles behind the civil rights movement, to identify with the sacrifices that were made, and to reflect on the meaning of individual sacrifice.

Video / 38 minutes / Catalog #1283

Time of Changes

6-12

An interesting history of the development of America's railroads as seen through the eyes of an older man, himself unable to change as the railroads have had to change. Points out that change is inevitable, and that changes can increase productivity and efficiency.

16mm / 15 minutes / Catalog #17

Too Much Too Little

9-12

Centering on a transaction involving two high school students and the sale of a car, the program traces the historical development of banking and money. Episodes in American history when the country was faced with problems of too much or too little money, and the institutions devised to solve these problems are presented. Topics include:

• Colonial Paper Money
• The Continental Congress
• Panic of 1907
• Gold and Silver Debates
• The First and Second Banks of the U.S.
• The Free Banking Era
• The Creation of the Federal Reserve System
• The National Banking Era

Video / 25 minutes / Catalog #1231

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