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The Magic School Bus: Everything You Need

You may use these resources to build on students' interest in The Magic School Bus and provide opportunities for hands-on learning.

Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Revving Up Grades: 3–5 Since your students can't travel through the Magic School Bus's engine, to see what gets the wheels turning, they can explore another way to turn... Read more >	Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Rocks and Rolls Grades: 3–5 Arnold and the other kids enlist the power of water erosion to sculpt stone! Your kids explore how running water moves earth and creates new... Read more >
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Taking Flight Grades: 3–5 Ms. Frizzle's class does some flying and gliding during their adventure. Magic School Bus activity, your child will see how gliders coast. She'll... Read more >	Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Plays Ball Grades: 3–5 What a difference friction makes! When Ms. Frizzle's kids get off the Bus into the world of non-friction, they can't even walk. Your kids can work... Read more >
Activities and Games The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie Grades: 3–5 The Magic School Bus gets inside Ralphie's body by going through a cut on his leg. Germs can get in the body that way, too, but skin usually... Read more >	Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Gains Weight Grades: 3–5 Phoebe and her classmates find out that gravity pulls everything down. Your kids test whether gravity makes heavier things fall faster than... Read more >
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Works Out Grades: 3–5 Ms. Frizzle wins the school Teacherathalon, thanks to teamwork - heart, lungs, blood, and muscles all working together! Your kids make a personal... Read more >	Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Gets a Bright Idea Grades: 3–5 Arnold and Janet disappear! Or so it seems. When Ms. Frizzle's kids discover how light bounces, they shed light on a ghostly trick. Your kids... Read more >
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus for Lunch Grades: 3–5 When the Magic School Bus shrinks and goes into Arnold's mouth, the children watch his teeth chew food! The kids meet up with much smaller pieces... Read more >	Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus In a Pickle Grades: 3–5 Microbes turned Arnoldâ€™s tomato into a goopy, ploopy mess. Here, your students can discover what microbes need to grow -- and how cold affects... Read more >
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream Grades: 3–5 The Magic School Bus becomes a salmon looking for its tiny home stream. How? By knowing the scent and taste of home. Your kids discover that a... Read more >	Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Meets Molly Cule Grades: 3–5 Ralphie discovers that soap and water slip grease and grime away because of the special characteristics of soap molecules. Your kids investigate... Read more >
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Flexes Its Muscles Grades: 3–5 Ms. Frizzle's class uses a fantastical machine to see inside the human body. Your children can explore bones and joints by comparing their own... Read more >	Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Gets Planted Grades: 3–5 Inside a plant, The Magic School Bus kids discover that plant food is made from air, water, and sunlight. Your child discovers that plants will go... Read more >
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Holiday Special Grades: 3–5 Wanda's favorite doll is chopped into plastic pellets! She's crushed until she discovers the pellets can be recycled to make a new doll. Your kids... Read more >	Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Out of This World Grades: 3–5 If the asteroid Ms. Frizzleâ€™s class followed crashed to Earth, it would create a huge crater. Your kids can explore the "craters" that objects... Read more >
Activities and Games The Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad Grades: 3–5 Ms. Frizzle's class finds out how rot makes rich soil for new growth. Your kids discover the connection between rot and leaves mixed in damp soil... Read more >	Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed Grades: 3–5 Enjoy this Magic School Bus goes to seed activity. Ms. Frizzle's class hangs on inside the tiny bus as it hitches a ride on a wind-traveling seed... Read more >
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Makes a Stink Grades: 3–5 Ms. Frizzle's class explores Janet's nose to learn how we smell. Your kids investigate how well their own odor detectors can identify smells. They... Read more >	Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus In the Haunted House Grades: 3–5 When the Magic School Bus Kids play giant musical instruments, they see and feel the vibrations. Your kids can see and hear the results of... Read more >