CAI: Magic School Bus

The Magic School Bus provides online drill-practice games for topics such as life science, archaeology, and space. In drill and practice, learners complete practice exercises to refresh or increase fluency in content knowledge and skills, most commonly in mathematics and language arts. Use of this strategy assumes that leaners have received some instruction on the concept, principle, or procedure they are practicing. To be effective, the drill and practice excercises should include feedback to reinforce correct responses and to remediate errors leaners might make along the way. Information is presented in small chunks, allowing students to review the material in small bits. Also, practice is built into the small chucks of information, giving immediate opportunities to try out the new knowledge in some positive way. The company the publishes the software is Scholastic Inc.