It needs more steam.

The sandpit is often one of the busiest places at kindergarten, and it is a great place for working theories to develop. We see lots of group play and discussion often centres around volcanoes, rivers, water ways, lakes, treasure and gravity.Yesterday Innes, Michael, and Logan used a pipe and filled it with water from small buckets....... slowly. "It needs more steam" said Innes. Is steam useful, I pondered? We talked about what was needed to make steam, "water" said Michael, some trains have steam "yes" said Logan "they do, they have coal and fire too." Is steam made by pressure?

 

Perhaps we could visit the vintage machinery museum and find out more about how useful steam has been over the years. What it was used for, and we can talk about what it is used for now.

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