Joanna Cole

The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks

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Why this book counts

  • Earth Science
  • Environment & Ecology
  • Engineering & Technology
  • Story / Adventure

The Magic School Bus carries the class through the path water takes into and through a waterworks. By traveling with the water, readers connect the natural water cycle to the engineered collection, treatment, storage, and delivery systems behind a household tap.

The science inside

  • Water Cycle & Hydrology
  • Engineering & Design
  • Earth Systems & Geology

Your child will meet:

  • Water moves among Earth's surface, atmosphere, ground, and living systems through a continuing cycle.
  • A public water system collects source water and uses multiple treatment steps before distribution.
  • Pipes, pumps, storage, treatment equipment, and monitoring work together as an engineered system.
  • Clear-looking water is not necessarily safe, so drinking-water quality depends on testing and treatment rather than appearance alone.

Use it this way

Have your child draw a route backward from a home faucet to treatment, storage, source water, and the wider water cycle, adding a question mark where the local path is unknown. Check that question later on your utility's public information page, and never taste water from an unknown outdoor, plumbing, or experiment source.

Parent effort: Simple activity

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Scholastic is re-releasing the ten original Magic School Bus titles in paperback. With updated scientific information, the bestselling science series ever is back! The classic title that started the award-winning series! Join Ms. Frizzle and her students as they follow the trail of water, from its sky-high source to the school bathroom sink on this wet and wild fieldtrip. After parking the school bus on a cloud and shrinking to raindrop size, Ms. Frizzle's class gets to see the waterworks from the water's point of view.Don't miss the all-new Magic School Bus: Rides Again book series and the animated show streaming on Netflix now!

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