The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses

Author: (USA) Cole
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book has won the "Magic School Bus" Non-fiction Award for Excellence in Reading from the American Journal of Education. The best-selling, most-awarded, and most-loved "Magic School Bus" has arrived in China!
- A bold and unconventional teacher;
- A magically transforming school bus;
- An easy and humorous classroom;
- Fun and accessible science;
- Thrilling and exciting experiences—all in the science book, "The Magic School Bus"!
Recommended by the National Library of the United States for all preschool and elementary school children as a natural supplemental reading material. With a global circulation exceeding 58 million copies, it is one of the signature books of Scholastic. For the students in Miss Frizzle's class, humor is certainly the most important thing! But in their latest adventure, they also learned about sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and more senses! When Miss Frizzle left school, she forgot something important, and the new assistant principal rushed out of the Magic School Bus to chase her. The whole class followed in a frenzy. Before the day ended, they tracked Miss Frizzle all the way, exploring the human eye, ear, tongue, and even playing in a dog's nose. Why can humans and animals' eyes see the colorful world outside? Why can ears distinguish different tones of sound? Why is a dog's sense of smell more sensitive than humans'? The seemingly simple questions raised by the children sometimes make it difficult to answer. Life science is considered the most complex and rapidly developing natural science, yet many questions remain unanswered to this day. Clearly, explaining any phenomenon in the life process is not an easy task. However, after browsing this book that introduces the senses and sensory knowledge of humans and animals, you will find that science is not as distant from you as you might think. Some students had an accident while chasing the teacher on the bus, and the vehicle suddenly shrank to the size of dust, entering Officer Jones' eye. A thrilling and perilous adventure began in the sensory world of a "giant." The students followed the light from the outside through the cornea and pupil of the eye, entering the retina. Here, it's like a huge circular "movie screen," where all the objects the eye sees are imaged. Through nerve bundles, the children actually saw everything Officer Jones saw in the cerebral cortex! Over the entire day, the students explored the eye, ear, tongue, and even entered a dog's nose! They experienced firsthand the entire process of vision, hearing, smell, and taste—truly a sensory journey in every sense of the word! Boring and abstract scientific terms are transformed here into the tangible reality of the real world. You truly see the rod and cone cells that perceive light and color, which are usually only visible under an electron microscope, and you feel the hair cells in the cochlea that receive sound, which convert sound wave vibrations into neural signals. All sensory information eventually reaches different parts of the brain through different neural pathways, producing different sensations. The production of sensations is truly mysterious and complex. Perhaps the children's senses may excite us even more—they have developed an interest in entering the of science and exploring unknown fields in the future.