The Train Set

 

1. The first lesson uses the  word locomotive to help you learn about motion.  
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3. Those terms easily combine into locomotion and you begin with your energy within a popular song.
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5. What is it?
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7. The main train set is circular and you use points to track the engine.  However, the centre will be used by you later making houses etc to fill the centre.
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9. Houses need roads, lighting, sewers etc.  You receive an introduction.
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11. The trains involve their own staff and onboard provision of human needs.  
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13. The main station includes you thinking about the staff, the passengers, the resting places, snacks, WCs, information etc thereby extending science into everyday life.
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15. What else is there to think about on the station?
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29. If there is an end of year Science Week the main hall can include both train sets placed at a good distance involving tickets, more-than-simple- understanding of points, communication, the difference between passenger and goods traffic, accidents and so on. 
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31. There's more so start thinking!

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