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Automotive Student: Hi guys. How’s it goin’?

Dan: (Nodding toward his student.) He’s fixin’ his windshield wipers.

Automotive Student: We’re tryin’ to fix my windshield wipers. We’ve got to find out what’s wrong, first.

Dan: This is his car.

Automotive Student: Take it all apart…try to find out why they’re not working right.

Dan: (Picks up a windshield wiper and holds it where children can look at it closely.) See, here’s where the washer fluid comes in, in that little hose right there. It comes up out of that tank you were pointing out over there. And the fluid comes up here (pointing), travels up here (pointing), and it’s got a squirter right there, and that’s what squirts on the window, like that (motioning toward the windshield). Isn’t that neat?

Jace (4.8): And then it wipes it.

Dan: Ya’, and then the wiper blade…you want to feel that? (Holds wiper where children can touch the wiper blade.) That’s rubber.

Automotive Student: That’s what wipes the water off.

Dan: Ya’, that’s what cleans the window off so you can see.

Jace (4.8): You know what, on my Dad’s car, you know what he let’s me do? He let’s me go….

Transition to view of the motor that runs car wipers.

Dan: See that. Look at that. Isn’t that neat? You need all that just to make your wipers work. You see all that linkage in there move? Isn’t that neat?

Sallee: (To Alex.) You know what, maybe I could hold you up. Can I hold you up so you can see better? I’ll give you each a turn.

Dan: (To Nic.) Can you see that? (Picks Nic up.) Can you see?

Automotive Student: See all those rods, and there’s a motor down there that turns? And then it just shoves the rods back and forth, so it makes your wipers go up and down.

Dan: Very good. (Child hands Dan a picture of a car.) Oh, that’s nice!

Transition to view of Nicole sketching wipers

Automotive Student: You guys gonna’ work on cars when you get old?

Transition to view of Nicole’s sketch of wipers.

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