Download: My House.mp3

Lesson Plan: DANCE (special thanks to Brandy Parker)

My house is a triangle
I turn on the lights, inside the 3 angles
I jump outside to turn on the outside lights
My house is a rectangle
I turn on the lights inside the 4 angles
I go outside to make, to make the outside bright

Woa, outside where everything is external
And inside where all the things are internal

My house is a perfect circle
The inside walls are curved and purple
I jump outside to turn on the outside lights
My house is a perfect square
All 4 walls are equal and bare
I go outside to make, to make the outside bright

Woa, outside where everything is external
And inside where all the things are internal

My house is a triangle

Download: Plain Plane Figures.mp3 

Lesson Plan: DANCE (special thanks to Brandy Parker)

Make a circle with your right arm
Keep it small at first
Slowly make it bigger
Watch those curvy lines turn
All the points are surely equal
From the center of the swirl
All the points are equidistant
I swing my right arm because I’m sure

Chorus:
Circle, square and triangle
Add rectangle to the shapes I know
These plain plane figures
Straight sides I show
Or round and round they go

A square with your fingers
Yea in the air
The lines are straight and equal
You should have four out there
Now take one of the straight sides
And stretch it just a hair
Make a square, a rectangle
Two lines are longer, now that’s a pair!

Become a triangle
With your shoulders and your arms
You’ve got three of the straight lines
Three angles and the charm
A triangle is sharp
And I may like it the best
A little odd with only three points
But maybe better than the rest

Download: Halfway Up.mp3

Lesson plan: DANCE  (special thanks to Brandy Parker)

If you want to get to the top
You have to start at the bottom
Yea then you get to the middle
And know you’re half way up
If you want to get to the top
You have to start at the bottom
Yea then you get to the middle
And know you’re halfway up, halfway up

My top is the highest part of my head
And my bottom is my foot when it treads
And my middle is halfway to each end
Your top is the highest part of your head
And your bottom is your foot while it treads
And your middle is halfway to each eeeend

If you want to get to the top (of a mountain)
You have to start at the bottom (or the foot)
Yea then you get to the middle
And know you’re half way up (you’re halfway)
If you want to get to the top (of a ladder)
You have to start at the bottom (or the foot)
Yea then you get to the middle
And know you’re half way up

Download: 46 Pairs.mp3

Lyric Explanation:46 Pairs

Kinesthetic Lectures: 46 Pairs

Special Guests:
Marianela McCammon - violin, hand claps
Gavin McCammon - b3 organ, hand claps

Verse 1:
In Interphase G1 the cell is growing
Then in S the chromosomes replicate, twist up and shorten
So the 46 pairs of sister chromatids are here
Some say attached at the hip, I say attached at the centromere
Uh oh, in G2 the cell prepares for the show

Chorus:
We’ve got 46 chromosomes, now 46 pairs
Yea that’s enough right there for two diploid cells
Prepared in interphase, now there’s no place to hide
Oh hey mitosis, maybe we will divide

Verse 2:
The nuclear membrane it dissolves in a bath
Of all that jelly cytoplasm on the prophase lap
Now the chromosomes are free to float wherever they please
But on the metaphase plate they plant their metaphase feet
Oh no, it’s given spindle fibers time to grow

Bridge:
In anaphase the cell stretches adding cytoplasm
While the protein-heavy spindle fibers - get up and at ‘em
They reach out and pull the sister pairs apart
You 46 to the left, you 46 to the dark

Verse 3:
A new nuclear membrane forms around each set
Of the 46 chromosomes, wound tight and thick
We call it telophase, when the middle gets pinched
And the cytokinesis applies that cytoplasm wrench
Uh oh, two identical 2n cells in tow

With Special Guest: Brandy Parker

Download: Uppercase Dominates.mp3

View: Uppercase Dominates - Lyric Explanation 

View: Uppercase Dominates - Kinesthetic Lectures

Verse 1
Gregor Mendel, yea the Father of Genetics
Studied heredity, noticed characteristics
Were transmitted from the parents to the offspring
He showed traits, passed down through generations
In pea plants with different types of pollination
They grew fast and were easy for developing

Chorus
Show me that genotype
A combination of lowercase and capital letters
We donate to the zygote site
To see our phenotype, our signatures
One powerful allele is all that it takes
To show the dominant trait
Uppercase dominates!

Verse 2
Distinct traits, Mendel looked at pod color
Cross-pollinate a green pod with a yellow
Filial 1, all the pods were intensely green
Plants in F1 are cleared for pollination
Passing traits down to the F2 generation
Three-quarters green, one-quarter were yellow peas

Bridge
The recessive trait was not gone
It was only masked by a powerful version
Of the dominant - all along
Each parent passing characteristics on
Donates a stronger or weaker allele
Of a trait at random

Verse 3
Big G for Green, Mendel’s dominant allele
Little g, it’s recessive and it’s yellow
Each plant donates one version when they pollinate
Homozygous dominant, two big Gs, impressive
Two little gs result in yellow pods, that trait’s recessive
One big G one little g, the power green makes its play

Download: Fruits and Vegetables.mp3

View: Fruits and Vegetables Dance - Kinesthetic Lecture

View: Fruits and Vegetables Dance

It’s time eat my fruit
It’s time eat my vegetables
They will pack my body with vitamins and minerals
This fruit will keep me healthy and strong
These vegetables give me energy all day long

Cookies high in calories and fat
Hey there cookie - you have nothing to add!
I’d rather eat a rainbow of some fruits and veggies!

It’s time eat my fruit
It’s time eat my vegetables
They will pack my body with vitamins and minerals

Gimme a “V” - for vegetables
Gimme an “F” - for fruit
Gimme a “V” - for vegetables
Gimme an “F” - for fruit

It’s time eat my fruit
It’s time eat my vegetables
They will pack my body with vitamins and minerals

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Lesson Plan: Newton’s First Law

With Special Guest: Brandy Parker

1st Verse:
The sign limits miles per hour, now we’re heading east
This magnitude with direction, a vector quantity
Speed is distance over time with no direction
That’s only magnitude, no vector quantity prediction
You’re going my way, yeah you’re going with velocity

Chorus:
Newton, first go borrow Galileo’s law
That an object at rest will stay at rest
And one in motion won’t change at all
Until force is applied
Accelerating velocity over time
Adding momentum
Hey inertia, force is on the line

2nd Verse
600 miles per hour, yeah we’re flying east
A magnitude with direction, a vector quantity
A force applied to magnitude for 10 seconds
600 to 1,000 miles per hour, same direction
Accelerating 40 miles per hour, per second, at least

Bridge
The frictional force on an object, if that whole object is still in motion
Will cause a change in its momentum, decelerating now in this direction
We’ll get decreased velocity
Decreased distance over time if, like we’re heading east

3rd Verse:
The product of mass and velocity - keep on moving now
Yeah momentum caused by a force can go right through this wall
I’d rather get hit by a tennis ball traveling, east
Than a blowing ball at the same velocity
That’s why you don’t see smaller smaller people people playing football

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Lesson Plan: Solids, Liquids & Gases

Kinesthetic Lectures: Shake

Verse 1:
Ice is a solid that cools my drink
It has a melting point, like most things
It melts at 32 (or hi-hi-higher) degrees
That solids now a fluid liquid
Yeah, the state has changed

Chorus:
If energy is entering
The particles speed up and bring
A Solid to a liquid, then a liquid to a gas
But if the energy is exiting
The particles slow naturally
From gases to liquids, then liquids to solids
Come on
The states of matter cycle all around

Verse 2:
Water - a fluid fluid at the liquid state
A freezing point of under 32 degrees
Will make it solid - or we can boil it
And watch it evaporate
See all those bubbles filled with gas
That’s water vapor - we can watch it escape

Bridge:
Matter has mass and volume
And it takes up space
Solids, liquids and gases
Yeah, they can relate
They need hot or cold
To change their states
And depend on how fast
Their particles shake
Shake, shake, shake, shake
Shake, shake, shake, shake
Shake, shake, shake, shake

Verse 3:
Water vapor - it starts to cool way up in the clouds
The fluid tiny gas particles slow down
They combine, becoming liquid little drops in the sky
Gas to liquid as the condensation grows now
Precipitation falls down

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View: Exponentially Lyric Explanation

1st verse:
5 raised to the power of x equals y
Replace the x to find
The coordinates that define
An exponential line
Replace the with x with -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
These ordered pairs define
A growing curve left along that line
Like (-2, 1/25) and (5, 3,125)

Chorus:
With a coefficient greater than 1
And a positive exponent
This results in growth
The curve explodes like a population
Coefficient between zero and 1
This results in decay
The curve starts high
And falls toward zero, exponentially

2nd verse:
1/5 raised to the power of x equals y
Replace the x to find
The ordered pairs that define an exponential line
Replace the x with -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The coordinates define
A decaying curve left along that line
Like (-2, 25) and (3, 1/125)

Bridge:
Growth with a coefficient greater than 1
And a positive exponent
Or coefficient between zero and 1
With a negative exponent
Decay - coefficient between zero and 1
And a positive exponent
Or coefficient that is greater than 1
With a negative exponent

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View: U Lyric Explanation

1st verse:
ax^2 + bx + c = y
Set y to zero so we we we we we we can find
The x intercepts (x,0) and (x,0)
Because this U-shaped curve
Can cross the x line, two times

Chorus:
Negative b plus or minus the square root of
b squared minus 4ac
All over 2a
Give up the two x…
The two x intercepts
Where that quadratic curve
Crosses the x axis
Take the equation y = x^2 + 5x - 39
a is 1, b is positive 5
c is - 39, keep the sign

2nd verse:
x^2 - 5x + 4 = 0
a is 1, b -5, c is 4
It’s a free throw
To use the formula to get two x intercepts
A U-shaped curve hits the 1 and the 4
Along the x

Bridge:
If y = -x^2
It means the U is inverted
With a pretty wide world
If y = 10x^2
That means the U is quite normal
With a narrow curve

3rd verse:
-x^2 -5x -4 = 0
a -1, b -5, c -4
It’s for real
We use the formula to get the two x intercepts
Inverted U at -1 and -4
Along the x