The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow

Genre: Science Fiction
Age Appropriateness: primary, intermediate
Media: Pen and ink

This is another great example of science fiction because inventive ideas are introduced into our real world, like when the bus turns into a bug that can fly and land on the flowers to investigate their growth

process. The book provides a lot of information and facts to the reader about how things grow, it is just impossible for a bus to shrink and start flying.

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LibraryThing member hubele

This book is a great way to make learning about plans fun. The class goes on a field trip and ends up on a seed. You can read the book while doing a lesson on plants.

LibraryThing member KaseyGater

This book is a very exciting way to learn how plants grow and the ways in which seeds can be planted. Ms. Frizzle takes her class on yet another excellent science adventure, and allows us to come along for the ride. There is also great detail in the illustrations and a lot of very useful

information within the text.

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LibraryThing member jroy218

Joanna Cole's "Magic School Bus" series walk the fine line between fact and fiction but give the reader a lot of information on different science topics. This book discusses the way a plant becomes pollinated and reproduces. I like these books because they peak students' interests. There is a lot

happening all at once, so the reader has to follow along. I do like at the end of the book they have a note from "Ms. Frizzle" which goes into a little more depth on the most important parts of the story. My students like these books because they like the story that goes along with them. I am happy they like them so they can gather even more information on science topics!

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LibraryThing member library1234

i like this book because you learn the different parts of a plant.You can also learn what is in the flower.i gave this book a 5 in rating.

LibraryThing member awalls4

In my opinion this is a great informational and narrative text. I think the writing is engaging for the reader in a narrative form but it also provides educational information for the reader. Ms. Frizzle and her class go on a trip in their bus that turns into a bee, they land in a flower and learn

about the parts of the flower. “I think we’re on this center part—the stigma”, this was said by one of the students. There is also a letter provided in the back of the book signed by Ms. Frizzle. The letter discusses what pollen is and how seeds travel from flower to flower and what parts of the flower are used in the process. I think it presents the educational information in a narrative form in the structure of a letter from Ms. Frizzle. I think the main idea of this book is to present the information of how plant seeds travel in a fun and imaginative way for a reader.

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LibraryThing member rdg301library

There is a photographer at Mrs. Frizzle's school to take pictures of a garden they are growing. Ms. Frizzle and her class go to Phoebe’s old school and go inside one of the plants that she had planted so it will grow in their garden for the photo. It turns into a learning experience of how plants

grow and how seeds are made.

This book really gets the imagination going. The characters in this book make the reader wish to have Ms. Frizzle as a teacher to go on all these exciting adventures and see how things are done or made. The style of the writing is enthusiastic and interesting; it keeps the reader wanting to know more.

Reading Level: Primary

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LibraryThing member akwon3

I liked this book for two reasons. One reason I liked this book was for language. Since it was an informational book, there were a lot of vocabulary words that were relevant to the topic. Not only were the vocabulary words in this book relevant to the topic, the vocabulary words were also age

appropriate. For example, since this book is targeting students in K-2nd Grade, one vocabulary word was anther, which is the part of the flower that makes pollen. I thought that anther was a very age appropriate word. Another reason I liked this book was for the plot. Most informational books do not have a plot, but this book was also somewhat of a modern fantasy book as well due to their Magic School Bus. I thought that combining the two genres is an effective way to get children interested in informational books. The plot of this book would keep children engaged while also learning about plants and seeds.

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