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Looking to inspire young minds when it comes to science? Adopt the Ms. Frizzle frame of mind! I remember watching The Magic School Bus in school when I was younger. They were usually substitute days, but they were awesome! I loved watching it then and I love that my children can still enjoy it today!
If you’re looking to watch your favorite episodes, you can watch The Magic School Bus on Netflix or you can purchase the complete series on DVD.
Another way to have some fun with Ms. Frizzle is with the Science Club! Get an exciting new Magic School Bus Science Kit delivered to your doorstep every month for a YEAR! These science experiments for kids include making clouds in a bottle, making rain, the greenhouse effect, making a thermometer, making a tornado, creating your own weather chart, and more! Educents has the award-winning Science Kit subscription for 50% off (+ free shipping within the US)!
Learning about bacteria is fun, but has your family ever GROWN bacteria? Let the “professionals” show you how AMAZING it can be!
In the World of Germs kit, Magic School Bus scientists grow bacteria and fungi, test antibiotics, make a fungus bubble, grow mold, wake up fungi, cultivate bacteria in yogurt, and use yeast to inflate a balloon!
And of course, you can find some The Magic School Bus Books:
The Magic School Bus Lost In The Solar System
The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body
The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor
The Search for the Missing Bones (The Magic School Bus Chapter Book, No. 2)
Scholastic Reader Level 2: Magic School Bus: Ocean Adventure
The Magic School Bus Blows Its Top: A Book About Volcanoes (Magic School Bus)
And if you have a LeapPad in your house, check out this The Magic School Bus Oceans Learning Game that works with LeapPad Tablets, LeapsterGS, and Leapster Explorer! There’s also a LeapFrog Learning Game: Magic School Bus Dinosaurs (for LeapPad Tablets and LeapsterGS)
If you don’t want to do the yearly subscription to the science club I talked about above, check out these smaller single kits:
The Magic School Bus: Soaring into Flight
The Magic School Bus: Back in Time with the Dinosaurs
The Magic School Bus – Jumping Into Electricity
Maybe you’d even like a Magic School Bus shirt!
Here are a few school buses that the kids can play with and create their own adventures with some help from Playmobil, Green Toys, Fisher Price, LEGO and more!
What are some of your favorite memories from The Magic School Bus?
Heather says
This is really smart. My kids love watching MSB on DVD and I have not seen these kits before. Joanna Cole did an excellent job in creating books that help kids who love a story get exposure to facts. There is a lot of research in how we read these to kids to make sure they access the facts (we often read just the story – but all of the facts are in the graphs, charts, speech bubbles, etc.), but that is something we can work on!