Summary
The Fixies — tiny helpers who live inside our machines — reveal how an electric tram carries many people through the city on rails. A quick full episode (about 6 minutes) from the how-things-work cartoon, easy to drop into a science or STEM warm-up.
Viewer safety
All ages
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
This episode shows how an electric tram carries many people through the city on rails.
- How is a tram different from a bus or a train?
- Why do trams run on rails and wires?
- How do you get around your town?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: tram, rails, electric, transport, city.
Try it: List the ways people travel in a city and circle the ones that use electricity.