Families: Teaching and Learning

Series: Families Series

Duration: 16

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1976

Creator: Churchill Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Compares the skills and roles that children learn from their families by focusing on a Japanese family, an American family, and a Mayan Indian family in Mexico. Follows two Mayan children as they are taught how to care for the house and for coffee bean plants by their grandparents. Views an origami lesson as a Japanese woman instructs her children in the art of folding paper. Presents part of the daily routine of a young boy in California as he learns to build model planes with his older brother and washes the family dog according to his father's instruction., Depicts basic aspects of family life as seen in a Japanese family, an American family, and a Mayan Indian family in Mexico. Shows children learning various skills from parents, grandparents, and each other. For elementary grades.

Complete Record: Compares the skills and roles that children learn from their families by focusing on a Japanese family, an American family, and a Mayan Indian family in Mexico. Follows two Mayan children as they are taught how to care for the house and for coffee bean plants by their grandparents. Views an origami lesson as a Japanese woman instructs her children in the art of folding paper. Presents part of the daily routine of a young boy in California as he learns to build model planes with his older brother and washes the family dog according to his father's instruction., Depicts basic aspects of family life as seen in a Japanese family, an American family, and a Mayan Indian family in Mexico. Shows children learning various skills from parents, grandparents, and each other. For elementary grades.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.