How does a Dam create electricity?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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How are Dams built? What makes Dams so important? What are the different kinds of Dams (including Beaver Dams?) Have you started your FREE TRIAL of Who Smarted?+ for AD FREE listening, an EXTRA episode every week & bonus content? Sign up right in the Apple app, or directly at WhoSmarted.com and find out why more than 1,000 families are LOVING their subscription! Get official Who Smarted? Merch: tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more, at Who Smarted?

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0:00.0	P-s, hey, Smarty Pants, trusty narrator here, enjoying some nature as I paddle a canoe down one of my favorite streams.
0:12.5	Have you ever been canoeing, Smarty Pants? If not, I highly reckon...
0:17.3	Hmm, there seems to be something blocking the stream.
0:20.3	Hey, who goes there?
0:22.0	Is that beaver talking to me?
0:23.8	Yeah, that's right. What do you want, pal?
0:26.2	I got no time for chit-chat. I'm busy as a beaver.
0:30.5	Right. Actually, I don't want anything from you.
0:33.4	It's just, you seem to be blocking traffic here.
0:36.2	No kidding. That's kind of the point.
0:39.0	This is my dam.
0:40.8	Ah, leave it to the beaver to build a dam.
0:43.6	What can I say?
0:45.1	Beaver spill dams to create private ponds for ourselves.
0:48.9	See, my beaver home, called a lodge, sits right smack in the middle of it.
0:53.7	This way, no hungry beaver-eating
0:56.6	land animals can get to me. Pretty smart, beaver. How'd you build your dam? Easy. I gnawn a few
1:06.3	small trees with my massive teeth until they fall.
1:12.6	Then I drag them into
1:14.6	place and fill any holes with branches,
1:17.2	sticks, and mud.
1:19.4	You can watch my how-to video on YouTube.
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