Beech, Linda

Presents tips and reproducible materials for teaching Jim Murphy's "The Great Fire" in grades six through nine, including author details and section-by-section summaries, discussion questions, and cross-curricular activities.

Contains forty short passages paired with graphic organizers designed to build reading comprehension skills in students in grades six through eight.

Provides forty high-interest passages paired with graphic organizers to help kids learn how to find the main idea, understand cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence events, and more. Includes reproducibles and a CD-ROM that contains companion activities to use on a SMART board.

Describes what happened during the "Exxon Valdez" oil spill in 1989 and discusses its causes, impact on wildlife and the environment, and aftermath.

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.

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

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