THE STORY OF THE WORLD AND A SHADUF

 

 I am a member of a history club and we are all reading STORY OF THE WORLD by Susan Wise Bauer. We read a few chapters and present to the group a part of the book.

My first presentation was about the first farmers and how they used the shaduf.

First I made a simple one to see how it worked.  

 Then I made another one from sticks and a leather bucket.

For the presentation I was an archaelogist explaining to a group how the shaduf worked by dipping the bucket into a river and using the stone as a weight, they swung the beam around to water the crops. I think it's a really cool machine.