Schoolhouse Rock! (Special 30th Anniversary Edition)

I have used the School House Rock DVD with young children and with preservice early childhood teachers. Music is a powerful medium through which to acquire and retain information. What's great about this DVD is it has all of the songs created for all of the subject areas. Everyone loves it. The children are captivated by the songs and images. The teachers love recalling how much they enjoyed watching the videos when they were growing up and they can remember the songs as if they heard them just yesterday. Parents can use this DVD at home and teachers can use it to supplement their instruction.

I purchased this product because a co-worker had brought it to work and it brought back old memories as a child getting up on Saturday morning. There were some new episodes that were cool and some that I had forgotten about. I was able to skip the Disney promo, select which episodes I wanted to play and select to view all. There were some episodes that had that grainy/old appearance but most were clear. I am glad that they brough this out.

In an effort to describe for our library catalog (I am a school librarian) what all is included in this 2-disc set (in short, everything), I compiled this table of contents that I thought might be helpful to others. Our teachers and students all love Schoolhouse Rock!

Disc 1: Top Ten Jukebox. Includes: Conjunction Junction; I'm Just a Bill; Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here; Electricity, Electricity; Interjections; The Preamble; Three Is a Magic Number; Interplanet Janet; A Noun Is a Person, Place or Thing; A Shot Heard 'Round the World.

Grammar Rock. Includes: Unpack Your Adjectives; Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here; Conjunction Junction; Interjections; Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla; Verb: That's What's Happening; A Noun Is a Person, Place or Thing; Busy Prepositions; The Tale of Mr. Morton.

Science Rock. Includes: The Body Machine; Do the Circulation; Electricity, Electricity; The Energy Blues; Interplanet Janet; Telegraph Line; Them Not So Dry Bones; A Victim of Gravity.

Money Rock. Includes: Dollars and Sense; $7.50 Once a Week; Where the Money Goes; Tax Man Max; Walkin' on the Wall Street; This For That; Tyrannosaurus Debt; The Check's In the Mail.

"I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College"

Multiplication Rock. Includes: My Hero, Zero; Elementary My Dear; Three Is a Magic Number; The Four-Legged Zoo; Ready or Not, Here I Come; I Got Six; Lucky Seven Sampson; Figure Eight; Naughty Number Nine; The Good Eleven; Little Twelvetoes

America Rocks. Includes: No More Kings; Fireworks; The Shot Heard 'Round the World; The Preamble; Elbow Room; The Great American Melting Pot; Mother Necessity; Sufferin' Till Suffrage; I'm Just a Bill; Three Ring Government.

"The Whole Enchilada"--choose to play songs in order or shuffle them.

Sneak Peeks of other Disney Films.

Disc 2:
Extra Credit--Quick List. Includes: Making of "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College"; Emmy Awards Featurette; "Scooter Computer and Mister Chips"; Weather Show; Nike Spot; Top 20 Shuffle; "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College" in surround; Audio Commentaries; Arrange a Schoolhouse Rock Song; Earn Your Diploma; Music Videos.

Good to have subtitles for all the songs, but it would be best if lyrics of all the songs come with the DVD.

Me and my mom just love School House Rock. It just brought back so many great memories for her. I think this is a great dvd to help younger children learn about history, math,language,science, and money.