Thinkabout — Season 1, Episode 56: Solving Problems: One Thing Leads to Another
Kids, Family • 15 min • 1 season, 60 episodes
Episode synopsis
Margie and Janet are babysitting when things get a little mixed up. Realizing they can do better, they start their own babysitting service to earn money. They even figure out how to get their own phone so they can keep the business going, until everything suddenly goes awry.
About Thinkabout
Thinkabout, "a cooperative project for acquiring skills essential to learning", was 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. The sixty 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, with additional support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, one of very few CPB-funded programs not distributed by PBS.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Finding Alternatives: Why Bother?
- E2Finding Alternatives: Brainstorming
- E3Finding Alternatives: Blockbusting
- E4Finding Alternatives: You Can Remember
- E5Estimating and Approximating: Estimating
- E6Estimating and Approximating: Approximating
- E7Estimating and Approximating: Using Estimating and Approximating
- E8Estimating and Approximating: Find Your Guide
- E9Giving & Getting Meaning: What's the Meaning?
- E10Giving & Getting Meaning: Meaning is More than Words
- E11Giving & Getting Meaning: Remember the Audience!
- E12Giving & Getting Meaning: But What Does It Mean?