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Sprinklers and Fountains

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JJ Harrison via Wikimedia Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ For the last two weeks we have focused in understanding concepts such as "Why and how things work?". To kindle the curiosity of kids we started by sharing questions that they wonder about in the world of science. These were the following questions that some of them have 1. What happens if a star crashes on the Sun?. 2. What is inside a black hole?. 3.Do aliens exist?. 4. What causes lightning to happen?. 5. Why do we laugh when we get tickled?. After our discussion about the answers to the above questions we moved on to focusing on our activity that was planned for the day. Since it is summer we thought about sprinklers being on everywhere near the gardens. 1.So, how does the sprinkler work?. What is the principle?. 2. Can we make our own sprinklers using basic things around?.  Most garden sprinklers work with the centrifuge sprinkler system. In this the cent