Rivers, Sediment, Water, Oh My!

Melissa Lopez
EPA, East Bay MUD, Central San, Sandia, Electrify America, Marathon
2025

In this lesson, students develop a model of the earth’s surface and use it to discover an important principle about how rivers work. In the activity, Paper Mountains, students take turns using a spray bottle to make rain fall on paper models of mountains to observe patterns of how water and rivers flow. 

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EPA
East Bay MUD
Central San
Sandia
Electrify America
Marathon