What is "thinkabout"

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, in association with various contributing television stations in the United States and Canada. It was distributed to PBS and educational stations across the US and Canada as late as the mid-to-late 1980s.

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, with additional support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, one of very few CPB-funded programs not distributed by PBS.

Thinkabout is a name used for two unrelated children's educational television series:

• Thinkabout (US TV series), US educational television series from 1979; seen mainly on PBS stations
• Thinkabout (UK TV series), a 1984 to 1986 BBC Two's in-school science programme for children; revived from 1990 to 1992 as Thinkabout Science