# Thinkabout ★ "Lost" Skills Essential to Learning Series

Thinkabout ★ "Lost" Skills Essential to Learning Series Created by the Agency for Instructional Technology in 1979. One web site referred to Thinkabout as " The Agency for Instructional Technology's Finest Hour. " ... implying that it WAS the Best Series they ever created. It was only 44 Years old when I posted it ... you decide if it's a "Golden Oldie" or a "Moldy Oldie" - after all of these years. Thinkabout is a series of sixty programs to help students in 5th and 6th grade become independent learners and problem solvers by strengthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and reinforcing their language arts, mathematics and study skills. The series is broken up into thirteen themes: Finding Alternatives, Estimating & Approximating, Giving & Getting Meaning, Collecting Information, Finding Patterns, Generalizing, Sequence and Scheduling, Using Criteria, Reshaping Information, Judging Information, Communicating Effectively, and Solving Problems. " From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinkabout_(American_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. The 60 programs produced were aimed for…

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 1979
- By: Agency for Instructional Technology
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/thinkabout_1979)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/thinkabout_1979?play=1)