TY - SOUND AU - Zaret,Hy AU - Collins,Dorothy AU - Evans,Dottie AU - Glazer,Tom AU - Singer,Louis C. ED - Marais & Miranda. TI - Ballads for the age of science PY - 2012/// KW - Children's songs KW - Science KW - Songs and music KW - Juvenile N1 - Compact discs; Previously released in 1961 by Motivation Records; Set includes booklet containing lyrics; Disc 1; Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans; 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; Dorothy Collins; 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; Marais & Miranda; 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; Marais & Miranda; 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; Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans; 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; Tom Glazer; 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); Dorothy Collins, Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans, Marais & Miranda ER -