Video: How Rap Battles Are Helping High Schoolers Learn to Love Science | Underwire | Wired.com: "
Back in 2002, the immeasurably talented MC of Blackalicious known as Gift of Gab wrote a lyrically athletic track called “Chemical Calisthenics.” For those who could follow his rapid-fire style, it was an immensely great science lesson and one of the best raps about chemistry ever. But he’s got nothing on Jabari Johnson, a high school senior from Harlem who can rhyme about kinetic energy better than most people can talk about it.
“Here’s the lesson, I know it kinda hurts but if you truly want to work then there must be progressions cause, FD=W the rule, and the unit measurement for the product is called joules, cool,” Johnson raps on “Quest for Joulelry,” which outlines the physics equation of Force times Distance equals Work."
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