The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs
| Author | Joanna Cole |
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| Illustrator | Bruce Degan |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Magic School Bus |
| Genre | Educational fiction |
| Publisher | Scholastic Corporation |
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Publication date
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September 8, 1994 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) also Audio book |
| Pages | 40 |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 33156881 |
| Preceded by | The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor |
| Followed by | The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane |
| "The Magic School Bus The Busasaurus" | |
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| The Magic School Bus episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 4 |
| Production code | Unknown |
| Original air date | September 23, 1995 |
| The Magic School Bus Explores In the Age of Dinosaurs | |
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft Home |
| Publisher(s) | Microsoft |
| Distributor(s) | Microsoft |
| Writer(s) | Joanna Cole |
| Series | The Magic School Bus |
| Platform(s) | PC (Windows, Macintosh) |
| Release date(s) | December 19, 1996 |
| Genre(s) | Educational |
| Mode(s) | Single player (multiplayer option in the "Dino Madness" activity) |
The Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs is the sixth book in Joanna Cole and Bruce Degan's The Magic School Bus series.
The kids are transforming their classroom into Dinosaur Land for Parents Night, as they are studying dinosaurs. Ms Frizzle then gets a letter from an old high school friend who is now a paleontologist and she decides to take the class on a trip to the dig. When she discovers that they are missing the bones of some Maiasaurs, she turns the bus into a time machine to travel back to the age of dinosaurs to find the bones. The class sees dinosaurs and learns the name of the different periods of the era and other information.
The episode's main aim was to show that dinosaurs weren't all terrifying monsters, like movies often make them out to be. The only period seen is the Cretaceous Period (all periods are visited in the book), which was due to time constraints for the episode and did not include every time period in the episode (Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous). In this episode, the kids visit Ms. Frizzle's old friend, Dr. Carmina Skeledon at a dinosaur dig, as opposed to Jeff in the book. Dr. Skeledon lets Arnold see a fossilized dinosaur egg that Ms. Frizzle finds as the kids are leaving, and he still has it when they go back in time. The kids watch as they entered the Ice Age and finally end in the Cretaceous. Having gone back "67 million years, give or take a month or two", as Ms. Frizzle tells them, the kids are frightened away by the appearance of large, long necked dinosaurs called Alamosaurus.
They separated and scattered, Arnold running to Phoebe and Liz. He trips on a rock, and the egg went flying, Liz catching it in time. Arnold lets Phoebe see the egg, but an Ornithomimus steals it from her. Arnold runs after the dinosaur, yelling "That egg doesn't belong to you! Come to think of it...it doesn't belong to me either!" Phoebe runs after him, Liz quickly running to tell Ms. Frizzle.
The rest of the class and Ms. Frizzle re-group, Liz explaining that Arnold and Phoebe ran off. Carlos, being paranoid about getting eaten by dinosaurs exclaims, "I knew this would happen! The dinos did them in!" The class hides out on a river bank, looking out for Arnold and Phoebe, and Ralphie spots them. They cross a herd of Parasaurolophus and land in an Edmontosaurus nest. The class continues on their way, only to find themselves with a Triceratops herd in a field. A pack of carnivorous Troodon chase a baby Triceratops, and the smaller Troodon are scared off by the larger Triceratops.
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