Biology
Decomposition
The Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 1 · Episode 6
The school bus shrinks down to bug level and the class finds itself learning about the fascinating world inside a rotting log, and the importance of the process of decomposition.
Habitats
The Magic School Bus Hops Home · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 1 · Episode 5
By visiting a frog's home, Ms. Frizzle's class learns about habitats.
The Magic School Bus All Dried Up · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 1 · Episode 7
The School Bus takes the class to the desert to explore this unique biome.
The Magic School Bus in the Rain Forest · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 3 · Episode 12
Elementary students learn about the rain forest while they go on adventure to find the source of the ingredients of hot chocolate for their teacher.
The Magic School Bus Gets Swamped · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 4 · Episode 4
The class learns why swamps are so important when a business wants to replace one with a shopping mall.
The Magic School Bus Takes a Dive · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 4 · Episode 11
Ms. Frizzle's class starts by looking for sunken treasure but ends up learning how a coral reef's fragile ecosystem works.
The Magic School Bus In the City · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 4 · Episode 12
Ms. Frizzle's class explores a city at night to learn about what animals live there, and that food, shelter, and safety are all that's needed for animals to live.
Microbes
The Magic School Bus in a Pickle · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 2 · Episode 6
Ms. Frizzle's class learns how microbes work at micorscopic scale to transform cucumbers into pickles.
Insects
The Magic School Bus Gets Ants In Its Pants · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 1 · Episode 12
Inside an ant colony, the class learns about their complex society and how the queen, forager, builder, guard ants all work together to make the nest function.
The Magic School Bus Butterfly and the Bog Beast · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 2 · Episode 3
The class learns about butterflies from the Friz.
The Magic School Bus Spins a Web · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 3 · Episode 2
An elementary class gets the class into spiders by entering a horror film. While everyone remains safe in the end, this episode should probably be avoided for younger or more sensitive children.
The Magic School Bus In a Beehive · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 3 · Episode 4
The class enters a beehive to learn how this complex community works.
Fish
The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 3 · Episode 8
The students of Ms. Frizzle take to a river to learn about salmon and their habitat.
The Magic School Bus Goes to Mussel Beach · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 4 · Episode 2
A class of children learn about the intricate tidal pool ecosystem as while they try to find a better home for mussels.
Plants
The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 1 · Episode 11
The class learns about how plants make seeds by going inside a flower and seeing the pollen, nectar, and eggs, and finding out the role bees play in the process.
The Magic School Bus Gets Planted · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 3 · Episode 11
Ms Frizzle's students learn about how plants create food by getting inside a sweet potato plant.
Mammals
The Magic School Bus Going Batty · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 2 · Episode 9
Ms Frizzle's students turn into bats to find out how they see and navigate in the dark.
Reptiles
The Magic School Bus Cold Feet · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 2 · Episode 12
Using their versatile school bus, a class visits a reptiles to learn about these cold blooded animals.
Birds
The Magic School Bus Cracks a Yolk · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 4 · Episode 1
Ms. Frizzle's class goes inside an egg to see how the embryo develops.
The Food Web
The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 1 · Episode 4
Fossils
The Magic School Bus and The Busasaurus · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 2 · Episode 4
The School Bus goes back in time to see the dinosaurs and learns about how paleontologists learn about the past.
Cells
The Magic School Bus Goes Cellular · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 4 · Episode 5
The school bus enters Arnold to find out why his skin has gone orange, and learns about how skin cells get their nutrients.
Human Muscular System
The Magic School Bus Flexes its Muscles · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 2 · Episode 2
Ms. Frizzle's class figures out how bones and muscles work together to make your body move.
The Magic School Bus Works Out · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 3 · Episode 9
Ms. Frizzle needs her muscles to work well for an athletic competition, so her students travel inside her to learn how oxygen gets used by muscles, and how muscles create lactic acid when oxygen becomes scarce.
Human Digestive System
The Magic School Bus for Lunch · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 1 · Episode 2
The class enters the digestive tract through the mouth and follows it through the stomach and intestines. Thankfully it comes back out the way it went in (a burp), not another way.
Human Immune System
The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 1 · Episode 3
Ms. Frizzle brings teaches about antibodies and white blood cells by roaming around in a student who's home sick.
The Senses
The Magic School Bus Makes a Stink · Netflix · Amazon
Magic School Bus · Season 4 · Episode 10
Ms. Frizzle's class enters a nose to see how molecules of different shapes meet up with receptors to cause us to smell things.