Thinkabout was a series of sixty programs to help students in Grades 5 & 6 become independent learners and problem solvers by strenthening their reasoning skills and reviewing and reinforcing their language arts, mathematics and study skills. The series was broken up into 13 themes which were Finding Alternative, Estimating & Approximating, Giving & Getting Meaning, Collecting Information, Finding Patterns, Generalizing, Sequence and Scheduling, Using Criteria, Reshaping Information, Judging Information, Communicataing Effectively and Solving Problems
It aired on PBS, TVO, TV Ontario, TVOntario.
Here are some images from the start of the show:
THINKABOUT EPISODE LISTING:
1. Finding Alternatives: Why Bother?
2. Finding Alternatives: Brainstorming
3. Finding Alternatives: Blockbusting
4. A Tip: You Can Remember
5. Estimating and Approximating: Estimating
6. Estimating and Approximating: Approximating
7. Estimating and Approximating: Using Estimating
and Approximating
8. Tip #2: Find Your
Guide
9. Giving & Getting Meaning: What's the Meaning?
10. Giving & Getting Meaning: Meaning is More
than Words
11. Giving & Getting Meaning: Remember the Audience!
12. Giving & Getting Meaning: But What Does
It Mean?
13. Giving & Getting Meaning: The Bigger Picture
14. Giving & Getting Meaning: Where Are You
Coming From?
15. Challenge #1: Time Capsule: Make a Present
for the Future
16. Collecting Information: What Do I Know?
17. Collecting Information: Where Should I Go?
18. Collecting Information: What Should I Do?
19. A Tip: There are Ways to Remember
20. Classifying: Classifying Objects
21. Classifying: Classifying Information
22. Classifying: Stereotyping People
23. A Tip: There Are Many Ways to Go