Musical Play: “Biomes: Animals and Plants in Their Habitats”

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What is this?An easy, flexible, 25-minute musical play for grades 1-5. Comes with the script, audio recording (with both a vocal and instrumental version of each song), and a teacher's guide. No music or drama experience needed!
Story & ContentFunny script ✓ Catchy tunes ✓ Flexible casting ✓ Dumb jokes
Elephant, snake, and beetle have escaped from the zoo! Where now? They meet lots of helpful friends on the quest for their own biomes. Learn more!
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Synopsis

Come join this motley group of animals as they search for their own proper biome! Sure, these animal heroes are cute, but looks aren’t everything in a world of distinct and tough environments. To survive (and be able to sing all their catchy songs), they’ll have to learn about desert, forest, grassland, freshwater, tundra, and marine areas for which they are especially adapted.

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Key Concepts

Biomes refers to and reinforces students’ familiarity with the following aspects of the elementary science standards:

  • Individual biomes: deserts, oceans, tundra, forests, grasslands, and wetlands (fresh water)
  • Habitat and species adaptation: different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them survive and reproduce
  • Food chains and competition for resources in an ecosystem
  • Decomposers (recycling matter from dead plants and animals)

Biomes is a great complement to your life science curriculum and a fabulous way for students to learn about animal and plant habitats. And, like all of our plays, this show can be used to improve reading, vocabulary, reading comprehension, performance and music skills, class camaraderie and teamwork, and numerous social skills (read about it!) -- all while enabling students to be part of a truly fun and creative experience they will never forget!

Aligned with national standards! View the standards and vocabulary. 

Publication Info

Author: Ron Fink (Composer) and John Heath (Book and Lyrics)

ISBN:
978-1-886588-52-3

© 2011
Bad Wolf Press, LLC

7 reviews for Musical Play: “Biomes: Animals and Plants in Their Habitats”

  1. Maci (verified owner)

    I teach 2nd grade and my students have loved practicing for our Biomes play. The songs are catchy, the characters are funny, and my students love it! Even my students who don't yet read have memorized their lines. We can't wait to perform for our families and school!

  2. David Lussier (verified owner)

    A fun silly informative play with cool songs. Great for K-3.

  3. Beth (verified owner)

    Biomes is a cute play for students in grades 2-4. We had to take some lines out and replace with current dialogue and one song has a reference to Forest Gump, which our students don't know. It's educational and I like that the students learn quite a few details about animals and their habitats.

  4. Diana Stratford (verified owner)

    The students love the upbeat songs and enjoy practicing parts. The repetition has helped my struggling readers improve and they have to pay attention to when their turn/part comes up. I love that these fit our teaching standards and that the kids love it.

  5. Rcarpenter (verified owner)

    This was such a fun musical. We did it with kindergarten and first graders. The vocabulary was very challenging but the kids rose to the occasion and learned every song!

  6. Julie Chilton (verified owner)

    I used this play with the 2nd grade, who were doing a PYP unit on biomes. I *loved* the script, but I ended up cutting most of the songs. They are simply too "wordy" and long for lower elementary. We used the opening number and "Go Find Your Place." Then, as the animals went from one biome to another, we sang the "Go find your place" refrain. We also used the chorus from "Fungi Are Your Friends." The parents LOVED it and so did the kids. Since I teach Performing Arts, I know the value of class plays – music and drama. One more thing – I think you should lose the Forrest Gump reference. It's dated and not really funny. (I changed those lyrics.)

  7. LK (verified owner)

    Our students are performing the play as a culminating activity for our Ecosystems unit of study. Students are excited to be performing as plants and animals in their most adequate biome. We are thrilled that the content is making profound connections with our GLAD Ecosystems Unit of study.

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The Show

We want you to know what you're getting, so the cast list and first third of the script are available here! Bad Wolf shows are written for flexibility and can be edited however you like to meet the needs of your actors, school, curriculum, parents, astrological chart, latest whim, etc. If you have questions about the portions of the script not shown, please contact us.

Casting

Flexible casting:
From 11-40 students. Use as many Starfish, Macaws, etc. in each scene as desired. Actors can easily play several roles, or a single role can be divided between multiple actors. All parts can be played by any gender.

CHARACTERS:

ZOO KEEPER
KINGSNAKE
HERCULES BEETLE
AFRICAN ELEPHANT
LEOPARD GECKOS
STARFISH
MACAWS
GRASS
POLAR BEARS
ALLIGATORS
MUSHROOMS
CACTI

and a CHORUS composed of all students who are not playing roles on stage at the time.

Script

This is the first one-third of the script.

(Alarm rings. KINGSNAKE, ELEPHANT, and BEETLE run onto stage. THEY scurry around, then the KINGSNAKE yells to the other two):

KINGSNAKE: Freeze! Here comes the zoo keeper!

(THEY freeze in silly positions. ZOO KEEPER runs in, looks all around but can’t find them.)

ZOO KEEPER (after looking around the stage, to audience): Some animals have escaped from the zoo! Keep your eye out. They’re very good at hiding—especially that elephant.

(HE exits. The THREE animals unfreeze, and then run off the other direction.)

Song 1

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CLASS:

Once there were some critters
So tired of the zoo
They want back to nature
But do not have a clue.

What habitat would suit them?
What spot would be their niche?
What could they adapt to?
What place would scratch their itch?

So one dark night
They all took flight
To find a brand new home
Who could have guessed
They’re on a quest
To find the right biome.

Biome
The right biome
They’ll search day and night
Biome
The right biome
We hope they can sight the right biome.
It could be a desert
That’s hot and very dry
It could be a grassland
With grass that’s four feet high.

It could be fresh water
In which you’d like to jump
It could be a forest
As long as it’s not Gump.

(ALL pause and shrug)

Yeah it could be
Some salty sea
There’s lots of life in there
They may go forth
Far to the north
To tundra cold and bare.

Biome
The right biome
They’ll search day and night
Biome
The right biome
We hope they can sight the right biome.
The right biome.
The right biome.

(KINGSNAKE, BEETLE, and ELEPHANT (= THE TRIO) enter, with two LEOPARD GECKOS right behind.)

BEETLE: Great job knocking over that fence, Elephant.

ELEPHANT: I did that?

KINGSNAKE: I thought elephants never forget.

ELEPHANT: Oh yeah. I forgot.

KINGSNAKE: Okay, Beetle, what do we do now?

BEETLE: I don’t know, Kingsnake. I guess we just settle down. Maybe buy a condo.

LEOPARD GECKO #1: You can’t do that!

ELEPHANT: Who are you?

LEOPARD GECKO #2: We’re Leopard Geckos. Remember? We escaped with you.

ELEPHANT: We ESCAPED?

KINGSNAKE (to GECKO): What do you mean, we can’t settle down here?

LEOPARD GECKO #1: You have to find your right biome.

BEETLE: Biome?

LEOPARD GECKO #1: Sure! The right habitat for your species—what you’re adapted to.

LEOPARD GECKO #2: Take us Geckos. We’re adapted to the deserts of central Asia.

LEOPARD GECKO #1: And we’ve adapted a great way to escape desert predators—when someone grabs my tail, it falls right off so I can escape. Then it grows back later!

LEOPARD GECKO #2: You need to find the right biome for each of you.

Song 2

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LEOPARD GECKOS:

Go find your
Go find your
Find your place.

Animals and plants adapt
Go find your place
If they don’t then they get zapped
Go find your place.

Camels can drink once a week
Because it’s dry
Put a penguin in their place
And kiss that bird goodbye.
Kiss that bird goodbye.

GECKOS and CHORUS:
Go find your
Go find your
Find your place.

GECKOS: You and where you live are linked
CHORUS: Go find your place
GECKOS: Either that or go extinct
CHORUS: Go find your place.

GECKOS:
Arctic foxes’ fur turns white
To match the snow
Put them on the forest floor
And suddenly they glow.
Suddenly they glow.

GECKOS and CHORUS:
Go find your
Go find your
Find your place.
Go find your
Go find your
Find your place.
LEOPARD GECKO #1: Good bye! We’re off to our biome.

LEOPARD GECKO #2: Good luck finding YOUR habitat!

(THEY exit.)

KINGSNAKE: We’d better get moving.

ELEPHANT: Where are we going?

KINGSNAKE: You heard the Gecko.

ELEPHANT: We’re buying insurance?

BEETLE: Come on. The ocean is right over there. Maybe that’s where we belong.

(THEY trudge across stage. STARFISH enter from other side. THE TRIO trudge back across stage and see the STARFISH.)

BEETLE: Hey look in that tide pool. Who are you?

STARFISH #1: We’re starfish, also called sea stars.

STARFISH #2: We live in the marine biome.

STARFISH #3: It’s the largest ecosystem.

KINGSNAKE: You think any of US belong here?

(STARFISH look them over very carefully.)

STARFISH #1: I don’t think so. At least not here in the tide pool.

STARFISH #2: But the ocean has a lot of different zones—estuaries, the open sea, the deep ocean.

STARFISH #3: There’s a lot of strange stuff out there—we’re sticking right here, close to shore.

Song 3

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STARFISH:

’Cause out in those waters
There’re floating sea otters
The whale and dolphin and shark
And deep in the ocean
There’re weird things in motion
And creatures that glow in the dark.

It’s nasty, oh brother—
They’re EATING each other!
And there isn’t one without scars.
Our tide pool’s not taxing
We sit here relaxing
Where starfish are always the stars.

STARFISH and CHORUS:

Close to shore
Close to shore
Stuck right here
Evermore
In this tide pool we’re nobody’s fool
Close to shore.

It’s nasty, oh brother—
They’re EATING each other!
And there isn’t one without scars.
Our tide pool’s not taxing
We sit here relaxing
Where starfish are always the stars.

Close to shore
Close to shore
Stuck right here
Evermore
In this tide pool we’re nobody’s fool
Close to shore.
Whew!

(THEY exit.)

KINGSNAKE: Come on. Let’s go this way.

(THE TRIO trudge across stage.)

BEETLE: Who made YOU our leader?

KINGSNAKE: I’m a KING snake. That makes me the king.

ELEPHANT (pleased): Does that make me a princess?

BEETLE: NO! You are an ELEPHANT.

ELEPHANT: But I feel so pretty.

KINGSNAKE: Does it seem hot to you guys?

MACAW #1 (as MACAWS enter): Of COURSE it’s hot. This is a tropical rainforest.

MACAW #2: We’re Macaws.

BEETLE: You look like parrots.

MACAW #1: We are! We’re one of hundreds of different kinds of parrots.

MACAW #2: Rainforests are home to more than half of all living plant and animal species.

KINGSNAKE: I’m not sure I’m cut out for all this heat and rain.

MACAW #1: Maybe you belong in a different kind of forest.

MACAW #2: A third of the land is covered with trees.

(This concludes the first one-third of the script.)

The Songs

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Standards

Common Core and Other National Standards

Science

Language Arts

  • Common Core Reading Standards for Literature: K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
  • Common Core Reading Standards: Foundational Skills:
    • K and 1st: Phonological Awareness, Phonics and Word Recognition
    • 2nd: Phonics and Word Recognition
    • 3rd, 4th, 5th: Phonics and Word Recognition, Fluency
  • Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards: Comprehension and Collaboration - K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
  • Common Core Language Standards: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use - K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
  • Common Core Standard 10: Range, Quality & Complexity: Range of Text Types for K-5th

National Core Arts Standards

Vocabulary

Curricular Terms

biome
habitat
adaptation
species
extinction
tide pool
ecosystem
estuary
tropical
rainforest
deciduous
evergreen
coniferous
diversity
canopy
Serengeti
savanna
prairies
steppes
ice cap
permafrost
ice shelf
food chain
fungi
decomposer
enzyme
Mojave
Amazon
swamp
pond
lake
stream
river
predators
thermoregulation

General Vocabulary-Building

critters
niche
quest
condo
zapped
Arctic
insurance
taxing
zone
galore
cuisine
migrate
flair
algae
tadpoles
absolutes
seep

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