During Transportation Week, the Virginia Lee Burton book, CHOO CHOO, can be read aloud. The book, like her other books, educates readers about different forms of transportation with wonderfully sweet characters. Following the book, teachers can take objects from the kitchen area (stove/oven, a pot, a toy piece of coal, a pitcher of water) and explain how heating the water below the coal makes the coal cook. By cooking the coal, steam is created and it is used to make energy, thereby forcing the