Future Tense: Science songs

Nothing pains me more.

John Gordon and Greg Crowther--Ilove you!!! As a child of the seventies I loved schoolhouse rock songs on saturday mornings. As a mother of the nineties Bill Nye the science guy warmed me with the episode closing music video imitations of pop songs with science lyrics.

My five year old heard a real B52's song and pointed out the similarity to the Bill Nye song we had recently heard on an old videotape. Hah! She remembered it was about the bloodstream.

My boys know song lyrics better than their address and really do learn that way!!!!

Now here's the source of my real excitement. I am a RN with a constant interest in things scientific and a singer with a decade of church choir experience where expression and understanding are essiential. Knowing melody is a given. Range of musical exposure is essiential. I could die a happy woman if I could join the science recording industry and join with other science music lovers to teach through song. Any agents ready to sponsor my winning combination--I'm the woMAN (hear it? the Joe Jackson song I'M THE MAN

I readied my 4th graders for their yearly state tests in science, social studies and government by writing words to tunes like "working on the RR" "glory Hallelujah" ,. The subjects were "laws of motion", "photosynthesis" and so forth. I accompanied them with my accordian or guitar,and we sang them every morning for about a month before the horrid tests. I think it helped, and theythought it was hokey but a fun way to study some of the basics they needed to have for a background for the tets.