The Magic School Bus At the Waterworks

The book At the Waterworks from the series The Magic School Bus written by Joanna Cole is a fun educational, science picture book. The stories from The Magic School Bus series are about a elementary class that Mrs. Frizzle teaches. Mrs. Frizzle is a very strange teacher that teaches her class about science in very interesting ways. In this particular book she brings her students on an imaginary trip through the water works. Though these trips are imaginary, I think the goal of these series is to show that science is truly an exciting subject, and can be taught in many unique ways that students will enjoy. Mrs. Frizzle has always reminded me of my 5th grade teacher Mr. Gange. Though we never went on crazy trips through the water works or the human body, he still developed science lessons that were very unique and a blast for all the students to be involved in. He first off incorporated science in very simple ways like covering his desk with science gadgets that we were allowed to play with during indoor recess. Also, when we were learning about how to take good observations, we got to make and play with a substance called ooblick. I always will remember how to take good observations because playing with the ooblick has stuck in my mind. Mr. Gange developed lessons with the goal of teaching his students, but also for us to explore and have fun. One other major experience with Mr. Gange that reminds me of Mrs. Frizzle is our field trip we took to a children's museum. We were learning about the organs of the human body in the class, so we went to a museum that had a bunch of replicas of the human heart. There were mazes, puzzles, jungle gyms, and many more apparatuses children could first hand experience that represented the human heart. This experience was one of my favorite field trips, and I even felt like I learned something when I left.