Lyrical Life Science Volume 1 - Set

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.

Study the scientific method, characteristics of all living things, birds, cold-blooded vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, fungi, genetics, and microscopic protozoa, viruses, and bacteria.

Includes:

1. Scientific Method (Dixieland acoustic) to the tune of "Dixie"
   
2. All Living Things (1950's style) to the tune of "I Love the Mountains"
   
3. Invertebrates (Folk/schtick) to the tune of "Clementine"
   
4. Cold-blooded Vertebrates (Martial/Acoustic) to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
   
5. Birds (Folk/schtick) to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It"
   
6. Algae, Fungi, and Nonvascular Plants (Classical) to the tune of "Go Tell Aunt Rhodie"
   
7. Vascular Plants (Martial) to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
   
8. Protozoa (Bluegrass) to the tune of "Listen to the Mockingbird"
   
9. Genetics (Old-Time) to the tune of "Shortnin' Bread"
   
10. Viruses (Fife and Drum) to the tune of "Yankee Doodle"
    
11. Oh Bacteria (Swing) to the tune of "Oh Susanna"

Oh Bacteria (to the tune of "Oh Susanna")

Oh, lacking any nucleus, you do have a cell wall
You live in water, air and soil, and anywhere at all
You reproduce by fission, and you do so very fast
And under harsh conditions in an endospore you last
Oh bacteria, though simple and so small—
Without you ecosystems would not function well at all
In dairy products you have shown yourself a cultured friend
And to genetic engineers, your DNA you lend
You even help to fight diseases caused by your brethren
You make antibiotics which destroy or weaken them . . .