Ballads for the age of science
(Music CD)

disc 1. Space songs. Zoom a little zoom (Rocket ship) -- What is the Milky Way? -- Constellation jig -- Beep, beep! (Here comes the satellite) -- Why does the sun shine? -- What is a shooting star? -- Longitude and latitude -- It's a scientific fact -- Ballad of Sir Isaac Newton -- Friction -- Why are stars of different colors? -- Why do the stars twinkle? -- What is gravity? -- Planet minuet -- Why go up there? --

disc 2. Experiment songs. It's a magnet ; Vibration ; We know the air is there (Hi, ho, fiddle dee dee) -- We're making heat -- Ice is a solid -- Why do I have a shadow? -- Rocks and gems and minerals -- The Earth goes around the sun -- Why is it raining raindrops? -- Where does the sun go at night? -- What's inside our Earth? -- Where does the sun rise? -- How many colors are in the rainbow? -- Who's afraid of thunder? -- It's a magnet (reprise) --

disc 3. Nature songs. Introduction to nature study -- Why do leaves change their color? -- What are the parts of a tree? -- What is an insect? (Cricket in a thicket) -- What is a mammal? -- How do the fish swim? -- Song of the rocks -- The birds have a language -- How does a bird sing? -- What does a bird have that I have not? -- How silk is made -- What's in the ocean? -- How do the seeds of plants travel? -- The balance of nature --

disc 4. More nature songs. Metamorphosis -- How does a frog become a frog? -- What is an animal (What is a plant?) -- Bobo the bear (The hibernation song) -- Song of the fossils -- How does a cow make milk? -- Eohippus (The evolution of the horse) -- The conservation song -- Why is the sky blue? -- What makes a rainbow? -- Let's wander through the seasons -- Why does a bee bzzz? -- What are the parts of a flower? -- The face of the Earth is changing --

disc 5. Energy & motion songs. What is energy (part 1) -- Grand Coulee Dam (How energy changes its form) -- E-lec-tri-city -- Engines (Mechanical energy) -- Solar energy -- Energy in roundabout way -- What is energy? (part 2) -- Kinetic and potential energy -- Jets (Action and reaction) -- Ultra violet and infra red -- What is chemical energy? -- How do we measure energy? -- Motion, motion, everywhere -- Thumbnail introduction to atomic energy --

disc 6. Weather songs. What makes the weather?

What is the atmosphere?

Where is the stratosphere?

The water cycle song

Why does the wind blow?

How clouds are formed

Warm fronts, cold fronts

What is humidity?

The hurricane song

Why is it hot in the summer?

Highs and lows

What makes the lightning?

Stratus and cumulus

Snowflake, snowflake

What does the glass of a greenhouse do?

What is climate?

What makes the weather? (reprise).