Tag: Education
Back to School with Unicorns
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Back-to-School-with-Unicorns.mp3 Author Alisson Clark Air Date 9/7/2004 Back to School with Unicorns Transcript As the summer draws to a close, the newspaper arrives at our house stuffed with advertisements for back-to-school supplies. Although it’s been years since I’ve needed any of them, the sight of all those crisp new folders, […]
Just a Peep at Peep
That’s the theme song, sung by Taj Mahal, for Peep and the Big Wide World, a new animated television show for preschoolers that is meant to introduce them to some basic scientific ideas and practices.
Report Cards
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Report-Cards.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 6/2/2004 Report Cards Transcript It’s the end of the school year, and that means: report cards. Remember how just the sight of a stack of those neatly-folded, buff-colored cards, waiting on the corner of our teacher’s desk, could send shivers of expectation through the […]
European Union Comics
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/European-Union-Comics.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 4/29/2004 European Union Comics Transcript To counter the problems of increasing xenophobia and environmental pollution in Europe, the European Union has designed a very innovative set of books for children. Written as simple, entertaining narratives with brightly colored illustrated, these texts are meant to […]
Money Cent$
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Money-Cent-Review-of-Books-for-Kids-about-Money.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 4/22/2004 Money Cent$ Transcript It’s National Teach Your Children to Save Day, and in today’s market, that means moving to a much higher level than the traditional piggy bank. We adults know that we’re not saving enough, or investing as shrewdly as we should, […]
An Early (Sometimes Edible!) School Book
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/An-Early-Sometimes-Edible-School-Book.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/4/2003 An Early (Sometimes Edible!) School Book Transcript A hornbook was what children used in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries to learn their ABC’s and to learn to read. Actually, it wasn’t a book at all, but rather a quarter-inch slab of oak […]
Back to School in Sumer
You’re hearing Janet Smith’s recreation of some of the oldest music in the west, from ancient Sumeria, in what is now called Iraq.
For Art’s Sake
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/For-Arts-Sake.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/26/2003 For Art’s Sake Transcript With the new school year just beginning or just around the corner of Labor Day, you may find something missing in your children’s school day this year, if it hasn’t already disappeared: art. Art classes used to be one […]
CrossGen Comics for the Classroom
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/CrossGen-Comics-for-the-Classroom.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 5/27/2003 CrossGen Comics for the Classroom Transcript Ever wish you could’ve written a book report on the latest Batman comic rather than whatever happened to be on the school approved reading list? Well, what if Batman was on the list, and was even endorsed […]
Prudence Crandall
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Prudence-Crandall.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/3/2002 Prudence Crandall Transcript Prudence Crandall was a woman who possessed the ability to discern something coming to an end and the seeds of a new beginning. In 1831, the leading citizens of Plainfield, Connecticut, were overjoyed when Crandall, a young Quaker school teacher, […]