Just a Whole Boatload of Schoolhouse Rock
I came across one of the Schoolhouse Rock videos and was going to post it for old time’s sake, then I figured that everyone would have a different favorite, so I better post them all. That was also before I remembered how many of them there are!
Anyway, I wasted half the day gathering as many as I could find, so here they are – at least for as long as they last on YouTube. (I sure hope everyone is on a broadband connection!)
EDIT: OK, YouTube was having some serious performance problems and I mistook them for an issue with embedding too many videos in one page. So I removed about half of them using “cut and paste”, then accidentally copied something else and lost all of that work. Damn!
I’ll have to go back and add the others I had found later when I’ve got several hours to spare. But for now here are 9 of my favorites anyway.
How a Bill Becomes a Law
Conjunction Junction
Interjections!
Rufus Xavier Sasparilla
Grammar The Tale Of Mr Morton
Mother Necessity
The Preamble
Elbow Room
Electricity
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GeorgieGirl,
Well, it took me hours to find them all, but I thought it was worth it because I also enjoyed them as a kid. I believe you can also buy them on DVD now if you want to have a permanent copy, so try Amazon if that is the case.
Take care,
John
OMG, Where in the world did you find all these!!! I grew up watching them. I would love to know where to find them for my grandchildren.
I just love Schoolhouse Rock – it reminds me of all those Saturday mornings with my brothers watching cartoons! And what a cool way to embed knowledge in a child’s brain, you know? :)
John, thanks for posting these :)
My daughter’s in first grade and as she’s gotten older you try to find the things you felt influential in your youth to help pass on.
Today is definitely a different age with Spongebob, etc. I wouldn’t say things are different at all, since we had uneducational tv in my day, but it did seem a LOT less riddled with ads and marketing =/
That said, this morning, my daughter sat on my lap and we watched the “How A Bill Becomes A Law” together. Since she was on her way to the bus afterwards, it was rewarding to see her tell all her friends about the vid because it also had a bus :o So thanks :)
The kids still like Sesame Street, but it’s become less about sesame street and more about Elmo I think. I was asking if my daughter knew who Cookie Monster was and she replied, “Yeah, he’s a character on the Elmo show”.
I figured that was close enough :)
Actually today YouTube has problems. Every video they are serving is slow and their site is also running extremely slow. I don’t know what the problem is.
John
Wow, that took up a lot of time. Especially on a day when my connection isn’t feeling at its best. Nice ones…. whatever bits I saw.