Water Trailer

Uncle Todd works for the Bureau of Reclamation in Albuquerque. His job includes calculating water levels in the rivers of New Mexico. He has access to a water trailer that they use to teach elementary school kids about watershed.

The trailer bed "sand" is actually recycled plastic bits. Austin and Andrew helped Todd set up the two rivers and the props.

We invited two other homeschool families to join us for our watershed lesson/field trip a few weeks ago.

There are two rivers. The one on the right is lined with vegetation and rocks and the one on the left shows errosion. The lined river flowed quickly and was deep enough for our little mini canoe. The un-lined river pulled the sand into the river bed and pulled near by animals in with it.
















After the lesson, the boys had a blast building dams and rivers of their own.


Thanks Todd!! We had fun!