5.8 /10 1 Votes
Country of origin United States
Canada Running time 15 Minutes Original release 1979 – 1980 Final episode date 1980 | 5.8/10 TV No. of episodes 60 Original network syndicated First episode date 1979 Number of episodes 60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Educational television, Children's television series Similar Wordsmith, The Write Channel, Big Blue Marble, The Electric Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 and KOCE-TV, in association with various contributing television stations in the United States and Canada. There was also a sequel, titled Thinkabout II. It was distributed to PBS and educational stations across the US and Canada as late as the mid-to-late 1980s.
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The sixty programs produced were aimed for fifth and sixth grade students to understand their learning process in topics as varied as language arts, mathematics, study skills, as well as thinking skills.
Thinkabout was funded by various state and local agencies, including the Exxon Corporation, with additional support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, one of very few CPB-funded programs not distributed by PBS.