US History I

This was my Mountain Man Project and we were tasked with creating a diorama of the Gold Rush. I decided to create a working model of Hydraulic Mining. I could have easily just made a 3d model of a mountain and color it in but I was actually interested in how this type of mining worked. As you can see, it has sand which represents dirt and heavy plastic beads that represent gold. There is a bottle with a drawing of a hose that represents the water source. This bottle can be used to spray the mountain to catch the gold in the sluice at the bottom. I enjoyed researching and building the project at the same time. I really want to do something like this in the future.

Also, History class was great with Mr. Shapiro.