45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
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MSB has done it again!, June 4, 2005
This review is from: Magic School Bus - Bugs, Bugs, Bugs (DVD)
My daughter, who is 5 yrs old and now wants to be an entomologist, loves this dvd! IN A BEEHIVE taught her how the bees communicate and how honey is made. In GETS ANTS IN ITS PANTS she found out about the life and WORK of an ant colony. And in her favorite, BUTTERFLY AND THE BOG BEAST, she learned about camouflage for survival. The best part is that they put these three all on a DVD. The one complaint I have is that the episodes are not listed on Amazon in the description so I also ordered the vhs BUTTERFLY (its the same as on the dvd).
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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A Review of MSB "Bugs, Bugs, Bugs", July 15, 2005
This review is from: Magic School Bus - Bugs, Bugs, Bugs (DVD)
The previous reviewer summed up the stories on this DVD very well so I will only add that all of the MSB shows are great (especially when compared to what else is out there).
I started watching these with my children when they were two and four. Sure they miss out on some of the finer scientific fine points, but I am *sure* that they are gaining a foundation in a variety of scientific topics. Things that we can *build upon* later.
For example, I couldn't find my car keys and I asked my 5 year-old daughter if she had seen them. She then began gyrating around-much to my confusion. When I asked her `what the heck ` she was doing, she answered that she was `dancing' out the directions to them the way that bees do. LOL.
In any case, after watching this show, we go outside and 'dissect' some flowers. Or we do something like grow beans in a glass cup so that what we have seen in the show is reinforced.
Five Stars. Top notch Edu-tainment.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Bees, Ants and Butterflies, June 8, 2007
This review is from: Magic School Bus - Bugs, Bugs, Bugs (DVD)
I homeschool (unschool) my son, and the Magic School Bus series is GREAT for teaching kids science. We have 4 DVD sets and a few VHS's.
If you're unfamiliar with the premise, the central characters are Ms. Frizzle (a teacher), her class, Liz the lizard and the Bus. Ms. Frizzle takes her class on crazy field trips, where Bus--and sometimes the kids!--experience a transformation so they can get closer to the action. (For example, become a bee or turning into water droplets.)
One of our most recent purchases was Bugs, Bugs, Bugs! and it's excellent as always. These three episodes are:
*In a Beehive - Exploring bee behavior and a beehive
*Gets Ants in Its Pants - Learning about the industrial world of ants
*Butterfly and the Bog Beast - Metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly
There is also a few bonus features:
*Bug Challenges
*Find the Camouflage Butterflies
*Ant Olympics
This CD runs about 82 minutes and is supposedly geared towards children 3-8. Personally, I think the age-appropriate range is more like 6-10 because of the complex concepts introduced.
However, if younger kids enjoy it--more power to them! It certainly can't hurt to introduce science to younger kids if the Magic School Bus holds their interest.
My 8-year old son really enjoys the series now (he didn't get into it when he was younger), so I use the Magic School Bus series to supplement our learning/experimenting with science principles.
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