While searching for educational songs we found this old webpage (2007) with quick time pro audio files of the “singing science records” sung by Tom Glazer, Dorothy Collins and others: http://web.archive.org/web/20070404205037/acme.com/jef/singing_science/ from the 1950s/1960s
Does anybody have the lyrics or know where we can get them from?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Early Learning17!
So glad you have come across these gems! We LOVE them, and I posted about them a few months back. We have all of them and have been playing them for years, since we found Jeff’s site (he is the guy that found a copy of the LPs in his parents house and converted them)
I know there were some worried that due to their age the science would be outdated, but I have not found this to be the case (and we are scientists). The concepts in the songs are just detailed enough to teach, but not SO detailed that you have to worry about erroneous or outdated info)
Also, even the most tried and true EL programs, that we LOVE contain mistakes all the time. Don’t believe me? We LOVE TW and have just explained as we go (for ex: the next time you show the lesson with atomic structures? Look carefully at Hydrogen 
they actually show an isotope (deuterium) 
and yes, I let TW know. Winnie was extremely kind, grateful, and generous, even offering me a free overview course :biggrin:
I have sent Jeff an email asking if the lyrics are available! For the most part, they are very easy to understand, but there are so many of them that it would take ages to type them out. Lets see what he says!
Alternatively, the group They Might Be Giants (Here Comes Science) have remade a handful of them, and they are much more modern to listen; too bad they only did a few…
And of course their lyrics are available for free on the web.
Here is a favorite:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=me06I9GDM_k&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dme06I9GDM_k
I love the videos from They Might Be Giants. I just discovered those today on another thread.
I found this great free printable mini unit designed for pre-k to 2 on the Scientific Method and Living/Nonliving things. I thought it would be a perfect compliment to the first thread in BFSU Science Curriculum K-2.
There is a sorting diagram for living/nonliving things. There is a “color the living things” page. A science experiment. A page to record data of nonliving/living things, and then some pages to make it into a book. Its a really nice freebie.
http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/spaul/living-and-nonliving-mini-unit
Great, please keep us posted about the lyrics. It is true, i quickly saw his email address on the 2007 webpage yesterday but couldn’t write to him straight away and then just completely forgot about it…
Kerileanne, what about the cientific details in peter weatherall’s songs? I suppose he is good, I just wonder if the melodies arent a bit monotonous for little kids?
Thanks in advance!
hi keri could you please let us know what did your dh do to be able to print the pdfs ??
xxx
viv
Yes, the melodies are monotonous a bit ( at least to my taste lol ) but surprisingly enough both of my kids ( 3 and 2) love them. We use it a lot when we drive in the car, along with a big collection of other educational audios and they never ask me to fast forward them!
Viv-
Thanks for reminding me! I will ask him to go through it with me!
Early Learning 17-
I agree with Skylark that the melodies themselves are not exceptional music! But the genius of Peter Weatherall Music is the detail, and putting all of the information in a cohesive song! There are a few songs she REALLY likes, must I do tend to introduce lots of them as we go, to correspond to something we are working on. I think this makes it much more personal and ensures she understands…
I can then play them in the car or at home and she will remember so much more.
Her current obsession is with the human body, and the digestive system is the fav there lol I am SOOO blaming all of her public display of her knowledge of terms at the most inappropriate of moments on Peter Weatherall :biggrin:
Here is her first attempt at organ placement on ‘Mr. Bones’ (and his bow) after watching the Digestive System song a few times:
It took me forever to stumble upon this, but here is a decent printable of a toddler size skeleton. I just found it yesterday and the cute picture of A and her skeleton reminded me.
http://www.eskeletons.org/pdf/000646791.pdf
Also found here a blog post.
http://www.spelloutloud.com/2011/09/human-body-learning-about-bones/