This song, along with 18 other science songs, is available on "What's in the Water?"
We got a little bitty ball sittin’ here on the floor
We got a little bitty ball and we want it to do more
We got a little bitty ball and we think we know for sure
That ball’s got nothing in store.
We got a little bitty ball and we’re holding it high.
It takes a little bit of work to hold the ball up toward the sky.
But all the work we did to get it here is being stored inside.
And if we drop it, goodbye!
We got a bigger ball now and we’ll hoist it in the air.
It takes an awful lot of work to hoist this big ball anywhere.
But when we do more work we store more energy in there.
Let’s drop this ball and compare!
We got these two balls here at the top of a slide.
And the heavier ball stores more energy inside.
And when we let them both roll down the slide for a ride
The heavy ball’s gonna fly!
So when you lift something up, you work against gravity
And the thing you lift up stores potential energy
And the higher up you lift it, the more energy there’ll be
Waiting to be set free.
More when things are heavy!
Potential energy!
