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The Magic School Bus Spins a Web

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SUMMARY

Ms. Frizzle starts up the Magic School Bus and the class learns some tricks from a master trapper, the spider. Learn how spiders trap their prey.

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(1) Explain how they caught the praying mantis in the movie. (Answer) Spun a web and trapped it. (Follow Up) How would you have caught it?

(2) How could they have stopped the praying mantis if the school bus did not come? (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) How else could the school bus have helped?

(3) Why did the general want to use Liz as bait? (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Name something you would use.

(4) Do you think you would like to ride on the Magic School Bus? (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Share with me what would you like to do if you did ride on the bus?

(5) Describe a praying mantis? (Answer) Insect that looks like it is praying. (Follow Up) Have you ever seen one?

(6) Remember the type of spider that hides in the ground. (Answer) Trap door spiders. (Follow Up) Have you ever seen a spider like that?

(7) Find the part where Ms. Fizzle tells them how to trap a trapper. (Answer) Get wrapped in her trap. (Follow Up) Did they find the spider?

(8) How does a spider know there is a bug in its web. (Answer) The signal wire. (Follow Up) Name some types of spiders?

(9) Find the part where the general gets caught in the web. (Answer) Page 23 (Follow Up) How does he get out?

(10) Name the person the general was going to use as bait. (Answer) Liz (Follow Up) How do they get her back? Activities

1. Have them design their own spider web that they could use to catch bugs.

2. Pretend you are on the bus, write a short story about an adventure you would go on.

3. Draw a picture of one of the different kinds of spiders you read about.

4. Think of a way you would trap the praying mantis in the movie and draw a picture of it.

Introductions

1. Bring in some pictures of various spiders. Ask if they know how a spider gets its food. Today we are going to read about how the bus spins a web.

2. Bring pictures of insects. Talk about how you would catch a bug. Now let us read and see how the bus does catching bugs.

3. Ask if they have ever wondered what it would be like to go into a movie and then be a part of it. To0day we are going to read about the bus and their adventure.

Book Title: The Magic School Bus Spins a Web Author: Joanna Cole Illustrator: Bruce Degen ISBN: 0-590-92234-3 # of Text Pages: 28 AR: 3.1 LEX: 460 Building Oral Vocabulary 2 favorite 13 centipede 19 Praying mantis Prediction Questions 5 Do you think the movie was all of the trip? 11 How can they get out of the web? 19 Tell me what you think the bus is going to do next? This resource is provided by THE LEARNING CORPS—Barren County Board of Education, an AmeriCorps project funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.