The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses
Genre: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Author: Joanna Cole
Age Group: 4-8 years old
Awards: Cooperative Children's Book Center Awards
Grade Levels: Prekindergarten-3rd grade
Summary: In this adventurous book, Ms. Frizzle's class and Mr. Wilde, their assistant principal, accidentally take a bus trip to the human senses and travel through an eye, ear, the nose and skin. As Mr. Wilde accidentally shrinks the bus, they travel through a police officer's eye, and. this is where the books starts to explain the parts and functions of the eye. They then explore another sense, this time through a child's ear, then a dog's nose, on the tongue of Ms. Frizzle, and through a cat's ear. On the sides of each page, additional. and important information about the senses are explained in brief details.
Evaluation: As a teacher, I think it's very appropriate to use and read this book in your elementary classroom. This gives the students surface-leveled knowledge about some parts of their body and the function of them. Given an additional. activity at the end of this reading, I would have copies of a picture of at least one of the body parts that. make up the human senses, and then I would have fill-in-the-blanks that point to each part of the organ and they can identify which part it is according to the word bank. Afterwards, they can finish coloring the organs.
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