EndedPBS1978-09-05

Trade-Offs

Name: Trade-Offs
Genre: Family, Kids
Released: 1978-09-05
Cast: Cindy Girling, Bert Adkins, Stephen Brown, Gordon Robertson, Ardon Bess

Family Kids

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PBS

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First aired

1978-09-05

Last aired

1978-12-12

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Synopsis and details

Trade-offs was an AIT program designed to improve economics instruction in the United States and Canadian schools. The series of fifteen lessons, for children from 9-13, helped students think their way through economic problems and increased their understanding of economics. On a broader scale, it helped them become more effective decision makers and ultimately more responsible citizens. Each lesson consists of a 20-minute color television/film program plus teacher's guide material to facilitate classroom follow-up. Each program begins with a short segment that identifies key points that students and teachers should watch for. This is followed by the dramatization of a fundamental economic problem relevant to the daily life of the student. Special visuals emphasize the economic principles and reasoning processes involved. The last portion of the program introduces, but does not resolve, another problem, and ends by posing a question to the viewers.