Teaching Themes
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.
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Gets a Bright IdeaGrades: 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... |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus for LunchGrades: 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... |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Goes UpstreamGrades: 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... |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Out of This WorldGrades: 3–5 If the asteroid Ms. Frizzle’s class followed crashed to Earth, it would create a huge crater. Your kids can explore the "craters" that objects... |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Gets PlantedGrades: 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... |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Flexes Its MusclesGrades: 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... |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus In the Haunted HouseGrades: 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... |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Goes to SeedGrades: 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... |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Spins a WebGrades: 3–5 In this Magic School Bus activity, Ms. Frizzle's class takes a field trip. The class goes inside a 1950s science fiction film starring giant... |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Sees StarsGrades: 3–5 Dorothy Ann has a nifty new telescope, but she still enjoys looking at the stars with eye power alone. Your kids report star counts and explore... |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Blows Its TopGrades: 3–5 Explore an underwater volcano with your class. |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Wet All OverGrades: 3–5 teach about the water cycle with this fun hands-on lesson plan based on the Magic School Bus series. |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Goes to Mussel BeachGrades: 3–5 Teach about life in the intertidal zone with this lesson plan from the Magic School Bus series. |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Gets SwampedGrades: 3–5 Should Walkerville get rid of the swamp by the river and replace it with a fantastic new shopping mall, or build the mall somewhere else? Teach... |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Under ConstructionGrades: 3–5 The Magic School Bus kids discover that the right bridge design can carry them across an alligator-infested bathtub. Challenge your kids to bridge... |
Extension Activities, Book Resources The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System Extension ActivitiesGrades: 3–5 Extension activity for The Magic School Bus® Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole. |
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Vocabulary Builders, Book Resources The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar Vocabulary BuilderGrades: 3–5 Vocabulary builder for The Magic School Bus® Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole. |
Activities and Games The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a StormGrades: 3–5 Weatherman Ralphie mixes heat with air to create an updraft, and the Magic School Bus rides high into the sky! Your kids can see a small updraft... |
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources The Magic School Bus Explores the World of Bugs Lesson PlanGrades: 3–5 Ms. Frizzle turns her students into bees, spiders, butterflies, grasshoppers, and more to show them how these insects live. Young readers will... |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources Magic School Bus: The Wild Whale Watch Lesson PlanGrades: 3–5 Students will pique their scientific curiosity and explore the undersea world of whales. |
