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…
Our Lives Matter S1E10: A Conceptual Detour of Evolutionary Biology
There are a lot of steps in between the evolution of multicellular life and the evolution of the plants and animals as we think about them today. We can fill…
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…
Our Lives Matter S1E09: The Evolution of Life
Genes are molecules. Evolution is caused by the replication, variation, and selection of genes. For life to begin on Earth, the geology of the Earth had to start a chemical…
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…
Get the Party Started by Pink
What does valuing diversity mean? What's an in-group that everyone can belong to? Planet Earth is a party that everyone's invited to. Let's get the party started! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW1dbiD_zDk
The Big Bang to the Periodic Table of the Elements (text)
ACT I Scene 1 The universe began with an extremely dense concentration of energy. Then it exploded in the Big Bang, kind of like a gigantic supernova. Physicists…