Purpose: To help children understand why we need rules and regulations; and why they should be followed.

Material: A train ticket, if available; or a plastic credit card.

Lesson: Have any of you ever ridden on a train? ... It is an interesting experience. Long ago, when people rode on the train, they bought a ticket from a person in the station, and when they got on the train, they gave the ticket to another person who was called the conductor. But this is not the case with many trains today. In Philadelphia, for example, the people boarding the train never see anyone who has anything to do with the operation of the train. At the train station, there is a machine that takes a five-dollar bil…