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Museum of Television and Radio               Integration Plans
http://www.mtr.org
Contact:  Scott Frank    1.310.786.1099
E-Mail:  sfrank@mtr.org

The Museum of Television and Radio is one museum with two locations.  The museum first opened in Manhattan in September 1991.  The second facility opened on March 18, 1996 in Los Angeles.  The Museum of Television and Radio is a non-profit organization funded to collect and preserve television and radio programs and to make these programs available to the public.

The museum has expanded the collection to include more than 100,000 programs, covering news, drama, public affairs, documentaries, performing arts, children's programming and advertising.

Videoconferencing with the Museum of Television & Radio allows you and your students access to the Museum's archive of more than 100,000 programs which span the history of radio and television and illuminate our nation's history and culture. The programs are available to visitors at our two Museum locations in New York and Los Angeles and, through the Education Department's videoconferencing program, to an extensive off-site audience of educators and students.

During each videoconference, a Museum Educator uses thematically linked collection clips to explore ideas and stimulate discussion with the off-site audience.

Schools can participate by connecting to the Museum via videoconference at 384 kbps (with three ISDN lines). If necessary, the program is also available at 128 kbps (with one ISDN line).

Program Overview: FREE

Technical Demonstration: FREE

60 minute field trip: $125

Custom classes: $200

Videoconference Programs

Muppets and Puppets
 
Grades K - 3

This class opens a window to the delightful world of Jim Henson's Muppets and other puppets on television, exploring many aspects of puppetry and character development.


Fractured Fairy Tales
 
Grades K - 4

Online Information and Printable Activities

A humorous selection of Rocky and Bullwinkle clips from the Museum's collection provide a way to examine story structure and the elements common to all fairy tales.

Around the World

Grades K - 4

Online Information and Printable Activities

Students learn about the many different ways people live and work, comparing their own experiences to those of children from all over the world.

Tooned In to Animation

Grades 1 - 5

Students learn about different techniques and styles of animation, and consider which stories are best told with this dynamic and creatively liberating process.

Think Green

Grades 2 - 5

In this class students explore the complex relationship between the earth and its inhabitants. They learn about the media's advocacy role in protecting the environment and also how they themselves can work to preserve the planet.

The Fine Art of Persuasion: Television & Advertising

Grades 4 - 8 & 9 - 12
 
Online Information and Printable Activities
What is advertising and what are its methods? Through careful analysis, students discover how advertising has developed certain tools and techniques that capture viewer attention to promote a product, a person, or an idea.

The Civil Rights Movement on Television

Grades 5 - 12
 
Television played a vital role in the civil rights movement, both as observer and participant. By watching significant television work from that era, students explore the role that television played in recording and shaping the struggle for equal rights in America.

The Master of Suspense: Hitchcock on the Box

Grades 5 - 12

Alfred Hitchcock enlivened the suspense genre with tongue-in-cheek introductions, macabre humor, and twist endings. Students analyze Hitchcock's use of the ordinary to create exciting, even frightening, television drama.

The Art of the Television Documentary

Grades 6 - 12

By examining a variety of documentaries from the Museum's collection, students learn how different techniques serve different visions and think about what types of stories are best suited to the documentary form.

Animation: Not Just for Saturday Morning

Grades 6 - 12

By presenting rare and unusual examples of televised animation, this class helps to expand the definition of this popular technique and provides students with the critical vocabulary necessary to evaluate and discuss it.

Presidential Campaign Ads

Grades 7 - 12

Students examine presidential campaign advertisements from the past fifty years to learn how candidates attempt to win the hearts, minds, and votes of the American people. Participants deconstruct ads to identify effective advertising styles and techniques.

Raising the Curtain on the Cold War

Grades 9 - 12

Fears of war and the atomic bomb consumed America during the 1950s. By examining programs from this pivotal period, students learn how television reflected and perpetuated the paranoia and hysteria that were pervasive at that time.