Author/Illustrator: Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
Genre: Science Fiction
Major Awards: N/A
Age Group: 4th - 5th
Summary:
Just like all of Mrs. Frizzle's classes, there is always an adventure. In this book, her class is learning about the solar system so Mrs. Frizzle decides to take them out of this world, literally. The class takes a trip to the solar system in the school rocket bus. While they are in the solar system they look at all the planets and the moon learning about them. After they were done they headed back to Earth to write up a chart of all they learned and then it was time to go home. The students told their parents everything they learned and that they went to space, but who would believe that a school bus took them there?
In my class, I would use this as an introduction to the solar system to get the students engaged and wanting to learn more about the solar system. I think these books are age-appropriate for upper elementary because of all of the science-related information it has.
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