Rain Garden Man

Sam and his friend, Justin Kievit, are on a team in their Science Class with Colin Barnes and Bryce Pierce. Their assignment was to create a project around a Rain Garden. They decided to make a video clip showing the destructive affects of erosion on the environment, and how rain gardens can help fight erosion.

So they wrote a script, and all got together at Justin's house one Saturday afternoon, and did a skit-type video, using Justin's laptop camera. Then they edited it down to a very cool video clip using software on the laptop -- with sound and background music! WHO in the world does that in 6th grade? (What happened to posterboard and colored pencil displays?)

Sam and Justin

Sam was RAIN GARDEN MAN, Colin was DR. EROSION, Justin was the GARDENER GIRL (wearing a dress & wig), and Bryce was the HOMELESS HIPPIE! They made up their own little story, with Rain Garden Man being the HERO. (I didn't get there in time to get photos of the whole group in their costumes, darn it!) But I watched the video, and it's very silly and very cute! They still have other parts of the project to complete, including planting the actual rain garden at school.

Technology -- AMAZING to me what they can do these days at eleven years old!