One day, my Fifth Grade Class and I went to Bonneville Dam. It only took one hour to get there from our school, and when we got there, we got out of the school buses and we got separated into small groups to tour the Dam more efficiently. Once we walked inside the Dam, our tour guide, Sam, came up to us. “Hello! My name is Sam, and I will be your tour guide for Bonneville Dam”, he said. The tour of the Dam consisted of us walking through the lobby, and the second floor, as the first floor was covered by turbines and was classified as a work area.
After going through the lobby and the second floor, he showed us a model of the turbines that are on the first floor, which consisted of a large propeller, that spins from the power of flowing water.
The propeller is connected to a large metal pole, which is then connected to an axle, which connects to a metal wheel with magnets all over the wheel, which spin around copper. When the propeller spins from the power off flowing water, it spins the magnets around the copper wire, which generates electricity because that is what we are taught in Eighth Grade Science Class. The electricity then runs along more wires, which is brought to people all over Hillsboro.
Now you guys know how the Dam works, if you didn’t know before. After that, we went to the Bonneville Dam Fish Reserve, which is most likely not its actual name, but it stores fishes. There we saw some fish that were 14 feet long.
Salmon’s Tail
A Trout
A Sturgeon Fish
After seeing many fishes, we needed to go back to school. Shortly after we left, I fell asleep on the bus. Just before we drove into the school’s Bus Loop, I woke up. That is the story of how my Fifth Grade Class and I went to the Bonneville Dam.