The Magic School Bus Explores in the Age of Dinosaurs

The Magic School Bus is the basis for a multimedia project for children headed by Scholastic. The Magic School Bus characters and stories appear in television shows, books, board games, and CD-ROM computer games, always with a lesson to be learned and an emphasis on fun and understanding. In the show and games, magic is used to demonstrate science and technology. Often, schoolmates Arnold, Phoebe, Carlos, Mikey, Wanda, and the other kids in Ms. Frizzle's class are shrunk or transformed, to help them see everyday science from a whole new perspective. Of course, having a Magic School Bus to take the class to all sorts of fantastic places helps to keep the learning fresh and interesting. This episode begins as Ms. Frizzle discovers that there are some snapshots missing from her special photo album. The class wants to help their teacher to replace the missing photos but since the pictures she is missing were of dinosaurs, this means a magical trip back through time. The kids climb aboard The Magic School Bus and head back into prehistory. The class visits sites in the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Eras, hoping to catch a glimpse of the many creatures that lived in those times. 15 games and activities make learning about dinosaurs fun and 20 multimedia reports help to reinforce new concepts in a comfortable, lasting way.