Women’s March
Women's March is a feminist movement that started with the biggest day of protest in American history the weekend before Donald Trump was sworn in as President. Today they're pushing…
Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf
You've probably heard this song. Have you ever wondered what those guys looked like? Here's a live performance from around the time the song was recorded. Like all classics, there's…
Plants and Worms to Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles (text)
ACT I Scene 1 3,500,000,000 years ago there were single celled organisms floating in the ocean. There are a lot of steps between them and us. If you focus on…
Extinction Rebellion Radio
Extinction Rebellion Los Angeles has a radio station. They have weekly hour-long interviews with activists from around the world. https://www.xrlosangeles.org/xrnow
The Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog
This week our story gets up to the evolution of animals. Here to kick things off is a frog sitting in his swamp, playing his banjo and singing a song.…
A Conceptual Detour of Evolutionary Biology (text)
ACT I Scene 1 Our story of the evolution of life has gotten up to multi-cellular life floating in the ocean. You know how many more steps there are…
Extinction Rebellion Creative Writing
https://xrcreative.org/ We've heard about the math and science of climate change. Visualizing what the predictions mean is what creative writing is for. Do you like fiction? Poetry? Music? Do you…
Winds of Change by Scorpions
Here's a classic song by a German band about people tearing down the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Another way to see the world as a…
The Evolution of Life (text)
ACT I Scene 1 The Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago. Life began about 3.5 billion years ago. So how did it happen? That’s another big mystery people have…
Rockin’ 1000
Here's another way to use music to bring people together. Here's a cover band that plays famous rock songs, where every concert has 1,000 musicians in the band. Hundreds of…