jose schools, and with the help of a former stanford student, students are learning rap to make science fun. >> well, i'm sorry y'all ♪ ♪ since the '30s clarences that pluto is not a planet, and they argue that daniel is out of pocket, and don't dis pluto. >> reporter: the sixth graders studied pluto and then wrote these lyrics. >> pluto is the big daddy until they found the little one -- >> music can be powerfully integrated if you go beyond a step of these are the facts, and take it to debate and argument based on evidence. >> reporter: tom mcfadden is a stanford grad and full bright fellow who grew up loving rap. he teamed with five schools in san jose to add a little hip-hop to the curriculum. >> we need to think outside of the box and remove the box and take the students outside of the classroom and help them to understand that the content they are learning is so applicable to the everyday lives. >> it is a lot of fun, because then you get to tell the facts about the planet and rap it. it makes it fun. >> and in science i learned more about astronomy. >> an attempt to bring in story telling and narratives and history so that instead of th