Beech, Linda

A special field trip on the Magic School Bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to see how ants live, work, eat, and reproduce as a group.

A guide for teachers for using Theodore Taylor's "The cay" in the classroom that includes chapter summaries, discussion questions, vocabulary builders, assessment strategies, reproducibles, and cross-curricular activities.

A literature guide to "The Great Gilly Hopkins," by Katherine Paterson, including a summary of the story, a list of characters, a profile of the author, and summaries and discussion questions on specific chapter groups, each with a selection of cross-curricular activities.

Presents forty short passages for close reading for fifth graders, focusing on main ideas and details, fact and opinion, inferences, and more.

Ms. Frizzle takes the class to the Sound Museum, where they learn the principles of sound with the help of a ghost and her great-granddaughter.

Srta. Frizzle's class learns about decomposition on a field trip to an empty lot.

Ms. Frizzle and the kids on the Magic School Bus find themselves inside a cake when they go to a bakery to learn about chemistry.

A special field trip on the magic school bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to see how ants live, work, eat, and reproduce as a group.