On The Level
1980 · 15m · Drama
"On the Level" is designed to help young people understand what is happening to them as they grow up and to encourage their active participation in the hard work of adolescence-reaching maturity through social and personal growth. The twelve programs dramatize common teenage concerns like love, stress, conflict. and changing relationships with family and friends. The problem situations stimulate reflection and discussion about alternative courses of action for different individuals: the many approaches to problems. the many solutions. Programs objectify personal experiences and feelings so that you and your students can analyze and discuss them with no threats to individual privacy. Programs show the interactions of different aspects of the self-emotional, physical. intellectual, social. Look especially for the physical health implications that have been built into each of the programs.
Episodes
1. Face to Face (Dealing with Conflict)15m · 
2. Daddy's Girl (Changing Family Relationships)15m · 
3. Who Am I? (Developing Self-Concept)15m · 
4. Journey Through Stress (Coping With Stress)15m · Brad has a hard time dealing with stress at home with his father,at work with the customers,at wrestling practice with his coach and in the classroom while taking the test.The class watches Brad and talks about dealing with stress.
5. Surrounded (Peer Group Pressure)15m · Kelly is friends with Charlie who is a veternarian,She like Charlie better than her other friends.Kelly feels surrounded between Charlie and Matt and the gang.
6. A Little Help From My Friends (Friendship)15m · Hector and Javier are two best friends and they both have the same job.They both come to the same party and one of them gets drunk and they both get fired from their job that causes their friendship to be broken.
7. Getting Together (Love)15m · 
8. Side By Side (Prejudice)15m · 
9. Solo (Alone Vs. Lonely)15m · 
10. Behind the Scenes (Accepting Feelings)15m · 
11. What Next? (Career Aspirations)15m · 
12. Alternate Route (Thinking)15m · More Like This
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