Among their stellar inventions and advancements, cultures also produce strange and strangely wonderful things that express their values, their hopes, their myths. Cultures also include those special objects, like the Japanese Daruma Doll, Pez dispensers, and Magic Lantern shows.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/George-Washingtons-Civil-Lessons.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/7/2003 George Washington’s Lessons Transcript In 1745 George Washington was a 13 year old school-boy in Virginia when he wrote down a list of social rules in his workbook entitles “The Rules of Civility.” The list was the descendant of a courtesy book published […]
That’s the Concert Glee Club from the King Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu singing a song that celebrates those early explorers, the Wayfarers, from the ancient Marquesas and Polynesia.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dance-Dance-Revolution.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 5/15/2003 Dance, Dance, Revolution Transcript Despite all our knowledge about vitamins, foods, and exercise, so many of us are not eating or exercising the right way. Because of our poor habits, childhood obesity and other health problems are on the rise. Luckily, though, some […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/American-Sunday-School-Movement.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 5/14/2003 American Sunday School Movement Transcript In May of 1824 in Philadelphia, The American Sunday School Union was established to serve as a clearinghouse for the many Sunday Schools which had sprung up throughout the northeast, and the Ohio Valley. It was an interdenominational […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Tony-Sarg-Master-Puppeteer.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/24/2003 Tony Sarg, Master Puppeteer Transcript Although Tony Sarg wrote over a dozen children’s books, and as a youngster dreamed of becoming an illustrator, he possessed and displayed a mechanical ingenuity, even as a little boy, that lead him in another direction. Tony lived […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Albert-Einsteins-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/14/2003 Albert Einstein’s Childhood Transcript Albert Einstein is back, relatively speaking, that is. Einstein is the subject of a group of new books for young people — a picture book and early reader biographies, an imagined interview that a cub reporter has with the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Childrens-Literature-from-Italy.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/26/2003 Children’s Literature from Italy Transcript One of the oldest and most influential Italian folk tales is the legend of Cupid and Psyche, as told by the Roman philosopher, Lucius Apuleius who jotted the tale down, in Latin, in the 2nd century ad. The […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Children-Culture-and-Violence.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/18/2003 Children, Culture and Violence Transcript What do Children, Culture, and Violence have to do with each other, one might ask. Unfortunately, the answer is: everything. Just as violence is, alas, a factor in our everyday adult lives, every day, we find that violence […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Clara-Bartons-Childhood.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 12/26/2002 Clara Barton Transcript Clarissa Barton, the woman who became known as Clara, was born December 25, 1821, the youngest by ten years of five children. She was a shy girl and when she was nine years old, to help her overcome her shyness, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Beauty.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/24/2002 Beauty Transcript Along with Brains, Beauty is the other half of the theme of this year’s Chicago Children’s Festival. How these two qualities, smarts and good looks, ever got separated in our cultural life is a real puzzle, but we all know that it […]