Science is real Science is real From the Big Bang to DNA Science is real From evolution to the Milky

Way I like the stories About angels, unicorns and elves Now I like those stories As much as anybody else But when I'm seeking knowledge Either simple or abstract The facts are with science The facts are with science Science is real Science is real Science is real Science is real From anatomy to geology Science is real From astrophysics to biology A scientific theory Isn't just a hunch or guess It's more like a question That's been put through a lot of tests And when a theory emerges Consistent with the facts The proof is with science The truth is with science Science is real Science is real Science is real

MEET THE ELEMENTS Iron is a metal, you see it every day Oxygen, eventually, will make it rust away Carbon in its ordinary form is coal Crush it together, and diamonds are born Come on come on and meet the elements May I introduce you to our friends, the elements? Like a box of paints that are mixed to make every shade They either combine to make a chemical compound or stand alone as they are Neon's a gas that lights up the sign for a pizza place The coins that you pay with are copper, nickel, and zinc Silicon and oxygen make concrete bricks and glass Now add some gold and silver for some pizza place class Come on come on and meet the elements I think you should check out the ones they call the elements Like a box of paints that are mixed to make every shade They either combine to make a chemical compound or stand alone as they are Team up with other elements making compounds when they combine Or make up a simple element formed out of atoms of the one kind Balloons are full of helium, and so is every star Stars are mostly hydrogen, which may someday fill your car Hey, who let in all these elephants? Did you know that elephants are made of elements? Elephants are mostly made of four elements And every living thing is mostly made of four elements Plants, bugs, birds, fish, bacteria and men Are mostly carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen Come on come on and meet the elements You and I are complicated, but we're made of elements Like a box of paints that are mixed to make every shade They either combine to make a chemical compound or stand alone as they are Team up with other elements making compounds when they combine Or make up a simple element formed out of atoms of the one kind Come on come on and meet the elements Check out the ones they call the elements Like a box of paints that are mixed to make every shade They either combine to make a chemical compound or stand alone as they are

I am a paleontologist I love diggin' in the dirt With just a pick and brush Finding fossils is my aim So I'm never in a rush 'Cause the treasures that I seek Are rare and ancient things Like Velociraptor's jaw Or Archaeopteryx's wings Now all the kids Who wanna see 'em Are lining up At our museum I am a paleontologist That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am I am a paleontologist That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am Could it be an herbivore Crushing plants with rounded teeth Or ferocious carnivore Who moves so quickly on its feet It's like pieces of a puzzle That I love to try and solve It's so fun to think about How a species has evolved And all the kids Who wanna see 'em Can check 'em out At our museum I am a paleontologist That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am I am a paleontologist That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am Is it a T-rex? (I keep digging, digging, digging, digging) (Digging, digging, digging, digging) Maybe a Triceratops? (Digging, digging, digging, digging) (Digging, digging, digging, digging) Or a Carnotaur? (Digging, digging, digging, digging) (Digging, digging, digging, digging) (Digging, digging, digging, digging, diggin') Pachycephalosaurus? I am a paleontologist That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am I am a paleontologist That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am That's who I am, that's who I am, that's who I am

The Bloodmobile The Bloodmobile The Bloodmobile A delivery service inside us We begin in the heart's right ventricle And travel to the lungs Red blood cells get oxygen To take back to the heart Then from the left side of the heart And out to every cell Delivered by the Bloodmobile The food that's been digested Is waiting at the dock To be taken to the tissues In the body's grocery truck So from the small intestine It's carried everywhere Delivered by the Bloodmobile The Bloodmobile The Bloodmobile A delivery service inside us The white blood cells are soldiers That fight infectious germs They make the antibodies Their weapons in the fight The army is transported Wherever they must go Delivered by the Bloodmobile We need to send a message To tell a limb to grow Or speed the heart or regulate Your hunger or your sleep The hormones are the message They're sent from many glands The messenger's the Bloodmobile [Spoken:] Somebody's got to haul out the trash To the liver and the kidneys It's not a pretty job Carbon dioxide gets carried To the lungs to be exhaled And the garbage truck is the Bloodmobile The Bloodmobile The Bloodmobile A delivery service inside us To carry oxygen, nutrients, things that fight infections Do the trash collection and deliver the mail And we're all (and we're all) Delivered by the Bloodmobile

Electric car Electric car On roads so dark To change the end Rewrite the start Electric car So good, so far Electric car On verdant green Invent a turn Invent a dream Electric car The new machine Let's take a ride in an electric car To the West Side in an electric car How can you deny an electric car? Won't you take a ride with me? Come on and take a ride with me Electric car Beside the tree Roll past the dock Roll past the sea Electric car Roll silently Electric car On roads so dark To change the end Rewrite the start Electric car So good, so far Let's take a ride in an electric car To the West Side in an electric car How can you deny an electric car Won't you take a ride with me Come on and take a ride with me No diesel, steam, or gasoline Let's take a ride in an electric car Happiness resides in an electric car You can even drive an electric car Won't you take a ride with me? Come on and take a ride with me Let's take a ride in an electric car To the West Side in an electric car How can you deny an electric car? Won't you take a ride with me? Come on and take a ride with me

THE APE Well, I got the invitation That you sent to everyone And I told you family picnics weren't exactly my idea of fun You replied that everyone but me said they were going to come Which is how you talked me into going to the reunion When you said everyone, you really meant it My brother the ape My brother the ape I received the photos you sent And I don't regret that I went Or the sight of everybody stiffly posing under one tent But I don't feel I belong and I keep wanting to escape And I fail to see the likeness between me and my brother the ape They all kept saying (they all kept saying) How much we look alike (how much we look alike) I don't think that we look alike at all (I don't think that we look alike at all) But I'll admit that I look more like a chimp Than I look like my cousin the shrimp Or my distant kin the lichens Or the snowy egret or the moss And I find it hard to recognize Some relatives of ours Like the rotifer, the sycamore Iguanas and sea stars My brother the ape My brother the ape They say you don't get (they say you don't get) To choose your family (to choose your family) But there's no other one to choose (but there's no other one to choose) So that's why I'm writing this now And you can tell my sister the cow That I meant to thank her for the gorgonzola And I'll allow that I've been acting like a stranger But you guys are all so strange Though I think of what I'm like And I can see we're all the same So this time next year, we'll meet at my place My brother the ape My brother the ape

SHOOTING STAR A shooting star is not a star It's not a star at all A shooting star's a meteor That's heading for a fall A shooting star is not a star Why does it shine so bright? The friction as it falls through air Produces heat and light A shooting star, or meteor Whichever name you like The minute it comes down to Earth It's called a meteorite A shooting star is not a star It's not a star at all (a shooting star is not a star) A shooting star's a meteor (it's not a star at all) That's heading for a fall (a shooting star's a meteor) A shooting star is not a star (that's heading for a fall) Why does it shine so bright? (a shooting star is not a star) The friction as it falls through air (why does it shine so bright?) Produces heat and light (the friction as it falls through air) A shooting star or meteor (produces heat and light) Whichever name you like (a shooting star, or meteor) The minute it comes down to Earth (whichever name you like) It's called a meteorite (the minute it comes down to Earth) It's called a meteorite

MEET THE PLANETS Mercury Venus Earth Mars Asteroid Belt Ceres Pallas Vesta And a bunch of other stuff Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Don't forget about Pluto Eris And a bunch of other stuff Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune And a bunch of other stuff (And a bunch of other stuff) And a bunch of other stuff (And a bunch of other stuff) And a bunch of other stuff

WHY DOES THE SUN SHINE? The sun is mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees Yo ho it's hot, the sun is not a place where we could live But here on earth there'd be no life without the light it gives We need its light, we need its heat, we need its energy Without the sun, without a doubt, there'd be no you and me The sun is mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees The sun is hot It is so hot that everything on it is a gas Iron, copper, aluminum and many others The sun is large If the sun were hollow, a million earths could fit inside And yet the sun is still only a middle-sized star The sun is far away About 93,000,000 miles away, and that's why it looks so small And even when it's out of sight, the sun shines night and day The sun gives heat, the sun gives light, the sunlight that we see The sunlight comes from our own sun's atomic energy Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions Of hydrogen,carbon, nitrogen and helium The sun is mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees

WHY DOES THE SUN REALLY SHINE? The sun is a miasma Of incandescent plasma The sun's not simply made out of gas No, no, no The sun is a quagmire It's not made of fire Forget what you've been told in the past (Plasma!) Electrons are free (Plasma!) Fourth state of matter Not gas, not liquid, not solid The sun isn't a red dwarf I hope it never morphs Into a supernova'd collapsed orb Orb, orb, orb The sun is a miasma Of incandescent plasma I forget what I was told by myself Elf, elf, elf (Plasma!) Electrons are free (Plasma!) Fourth state of matter Not gas, not liquid, not solid (Plasma!) Forget that song (Plasma!) They got it wrong That thesis has been rendered invalid

Roy G. Biv R is for red O is for orange Y is for yellow And G is for green B is for blue I for Indigo And V is for violet And that spells Roy G. Biv Roy G. Biv is a colorful man And he proudly stands at the rainbow's end (So you'll see him) Roy G. Biv is a colorful man And his name spells out the whole color spectrum (So you'll see him) Roy G. Biv is a colorful man (So you'll see him) And he proudly stand at the rainbow's end (So you'll see him) Roy G. Biv is a colorful man And his name spells out the whole color spectrum (So you'll see him) You'll never see a unicorn But you'll see a rainbow And inside every rainbow Is the spectrum of light You'll never see Roy G. Biv But he's inside the rainbow 'Cause inside every rainbow Is the spectrum of light R is for red O is for orange Y is for yellow And G is for green B is for blue I for Indigo And V is for violet And that spells Roy G. Biv Roy G. Biv is a colorful man (So you'll see him) And he proudly stand at the rainbow's end (So you'll see him) Roy G. Biv is a colorful man And his name spells out the whole color spectrum (So you'll see him) Roy G. Biv is a colorful man (So you'll see him) And he proudly stand at the rainbow's end (So you'll see him) Roy G. Biv is a colorful man And his name spells out the whole color spectrum (So you'll see him)

PUT IT TO THE TEST If there's a question bothering your brain That you think you know how to explain You need a test Yeah, think up a test If it's possible to prove it wrong You're going to want to know before too long You'll need a test If somebody says they figured it out And they're leaving any room for doubt Come up with a test Yeah, you need a test Are you sure that that thing is true? Or did someone just tell it to you? Come up with a test Test it out Find a way to show what would happen If you were incorrect (Test it out) A fact is just a fantasy Unless it can be checked Make a test Test it out If you want to know if it's the truth Then, my friend, you are going to need proof Come up with a test Yeah, you need a test Don't believe it 'cause they say it's so If it's not true, you have a right to know Put it to the test (put it to the test) Yeah, test it out (put it to the test) Yeah, put it to the test (put it to the test) Put it to the test (put it to the test)

Photosynthesis Photosynthesis Photosynthesis Photosynthesis Photosynthesis does not involve a camera Or a synthesizer Although that's interesting too Photosynthesis is how plants take in light From the sun and turn it into energy It's actually a thing on which most life depends Here on the planet Earth Photosynthesis Photosynthesis Photosynthesis With plants Chlorophyll cells take in carbon dioxide Now that's the air that we breathe out Combines it with water and exposes it to sunlight And that's how plants can make their own food Photosynthesis is why plants need light And photosynthesis is why humans need plants Because through photosynthesis plants make oxygen And humans need oxygen to breathe Photosynthesis Photosynthesis Photosynthesis

CELLS Life is made out of cells Cells make copies of themselves (copies of themselves) And they make copies of themselves (and they make copies of themselves) And they make copies of themselves Different cells have different jobs But they all have one thing in common Inside of every cell is a twisted ladder A recipe for life called DNA The directions are written out in the ladder's rungs Where they can be found In every cell of everything that lives A cell knows what it has to do To grow into some moss or a shrew Algae or a kangaroo Bug or a sunflower Dwight David Eisenhower A frog, a fish or you Cells are small, too small to see But together they can make a tree Within the cell there's a tiny spiral staircase That tells the cell just how it's going to grow The instructions are spelled out in letters One on every step In a language that the cell knows how to read Inside the cell is a tiny double helix Another fancy word for DNA Which could also be a spiral staircase Which could also be a twisted ladder Which could also be a spring Which could also be a spiral staircase Which could also be a twisted ladder Or a crazy looking spring

SPEED AND VELOCITY When I'm on an airplane And we're on a runway Ready to take off And then we're in the air Motion, direction, acceleration Motion, direction, acceleration I've got speed (that's how fast I am moving) I've got velocity (that's my speed and direction) When I'm on my Big Wheel Skateboard Roller coaster Race car Motorcycle Rocket ship Into outer space Motion (keep movin', keep movin', keep movin') Direction (which way, anyway, uptown, all around) Acceleration (let's go faster) Acceleration (let's go faster) I've got Speed (that's how fast I am moving) I've got velocity (that's my speed and direction) I've got speed (that's how fast I am moving) I've got velocity (that's my speed and direction)

Computer assisted design Computer assisted design See how you get from a thought to an object Computer assisted design It takes an idea and makes 3D stuff Computer assisted design Bam Crunch Bolt Smash Crash Twitch Computer assisted design See how you get from a thought to an object Computer assisted design It takes an idea and makes 3D stuff Computer assisted design

Solid, Liquid, Gas Solid Liquid Gas Solid Liquid Gas Ice is a solid Water is a liquid Steam is a gas Rock is a solid (rock is a solid) Milk is a liquid (milk is a liquid) And air is a gas When water's warm enough It's a liquid When it's cold enough It's a solid And when it's hot enough It's a gas So could you make the air so cold it would be solid? Could you make rock so warm it would be liquid? Could you make milk so hot it would be a gas? Solid Liquid Gas

THE BALLAD OF DAVY CROCKETT (OUTER SPACE) Davy, Davy Crockett Traveling through outer space Reborn in the stratosphere and Saturn-bound Flying fast and miles off the ground Jumped from the spaceship just to look around And shot off his gun without making a sound Davy, Davy Crockett King of this brand new place Davy, Davy Crockett Traveling through outer space Off went his rocket at the speed of light Flying so fast there was no day or night Messing around with the fabric of time He knows who's guilty 'fore there's even a crime Davy, Davy Crockett The buckskin astronaut Davy, Davy Crockett There's more than we were taught Hiding in the cargo was a robot drone Programmed to destroy Davy's spaceship home Davy switched out his brains, now the drone's a dog clone Named him Copernicus and threw him a bone Davy, Davy Crockett King of this brand new place Davy, Davy Crockett Traveling through outer space Davy, Davy Crockett King of this brand new place Davy, Davy Crockett Traveling through outer space