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Science concepts: All animals need food, water, oxygen, and space and they have different features to help them meet those needs.
Featured song: The Chimichanga Song
Recommended grades: all
Science concepts: Habitats vs. ecosystems, roles of living things in ecosystems, wildlife conservation, effects of humans on ecosystems
Featured song: How Many Spots Has an Ocelot Got?
Recommended grades: 1st-3rd
Science concepts: Life cycles, living vs. nonliving things, variation between offspring of same species, how and why eggs are so different
Featured song: Who’s In That Egg?
Recommended grades: 1st-3rd
Science concepts: How offspring grow, advantages of metamorphosis, how climate affects growth, how body parts change to suit differing habitats
Featured song: Metamorphosis (Tadpole Into a Frog)
Recommended grades: all
Science concepts: Witness the amazing life cycle and spectacular migrations of monarch butterflies!
Featured song: Going Down to Mexico (The Monarch Butterfly Song)
Recommended grades: all
Science concepts: Characteristics of animals, arthropods, interdependence, changes in scientific knowledge
Featured song: Baby, You’re an Arthropod
Recommended grades: 2nd-5th
Science concepts: insect life cycle, pollen, nectar & honey, pollination, interdependence
Featured song: All About the Hive
Recommended grades: 2nd-5th
Science concepts: Life cycle of flowering plant, pollination, plant anatomy
Featured song: Bluebonnet Time
Recommended grades: 1st-4th
Science concepts: Needs and importance of plants, types of wetlands, flow of sun’s energy through the food web, services of natural ecosystems
Featured song: Living In a Wetland
Recommended grades: 2nd-5th
Science concepts: definition of adaptations and examples of adaptations for moving, attracting mates, eating and more; differences between individuals of a species
Featured song: The Right Beak to Reach It
Recommended grades: 2nd-5th
Science concepts: Adaptations for moving, animal anatomy, functions of muscles, lungs, heart, and more
Featured song: I’m a Cheetah!
Recommended grades: All
Science concepts: Photosynthesis, food chains vs. food webs, plants as producers
Featured song: Plankton Love Song
Recommended grades: 3rd-5th
Science concepts: Food chain, flow of energy through food web, importance of the sun
Featured song: How Many Spots Has an Ocelot Got?
Recommended grades: 1st-3rd
Science concepts: interdependence
Featured song: Living in Symbiosis
Recommended grades: 3rd-5th