Enjoy good-time learning with scientific lyrics set to fun, toe-tapping historical tunes! These award-winning CD/text/workbook sets are rigorous, systematic—and humorous! Sing along with everything from fiddles to Irish pipes to brass bands. Produced in a variety of traditional styles by one-man-band Bobby Horton.
Texts include foundational concepts and vocabulary, in-depth explanations of lyrics, line drawings, and sheet music with guitar chords for your own science sing-alongs. Workbooks are reproducible.
Tackle geological concepts such as plate tectonics, intrusion, landforms, earthquakes, volcanoes, minerals, rocks, erosion, weathering, soil, and more.
Tracks:
(click on each track title for an MP3 sample)
- Introduction to Geology (old time) to the tune of "Battle Cry of Freedom"
- Plate Tectonics (swing) to the tune of "Wabash Cannonball"
- Landforms and Intrusion (march) to the tune of "Washington Post March"
- Earthquakes (old time) to the tune of "Little 'Baccy Box"
- Volcanoes (Irish air) to the tune of "The Minstrel Boy"
- Minerals (Tin-Pan Alley) to the tune of "Invalid Corps"
- Igneous Rock (light military swing) to the tune of "Anchors Away"
- Sedimentary Rock (orchestral jig) to the tune of "Bonnie Blue Flag"
- Metamorphic Rock (folk) to the tune of "Just Before the Battle, Mother"
- Weathering of Rocks (Irish air) to the tune of "Wearing of the Green"
- Hydrology and Erosion (swing) to the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
- Erosion and Waterways (folk) to the tune of "Shenandoah"
- Ground Water (classical) to the tune of Handel's "Water Music Suite"
- Mass Movement (medium bounce) to the tune of "The Boll Weevil"
- Glaciers (old time) to the tune of "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean"
- Wind Erosion (sea shanty) to the tune of "Blow Ye Winds in the Morning"
- Soil (folk) to the tune of "My Grandfather's Clock"
- Topographic Maps (sea shanty) to the tune of "Life on the Ocean Waves"
- Conclusion to the tune of "Washington Post March" Part C only
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