The California Report: The Beautiful Yangtze

Sixth graders at Ralston Middle School in Belmont, California made this video as part of a curriculum on Chinese history and culture. Students in Steve Pomroy's advanced animation class created visuals to accompany a poem written by students in Gary Means' social studies class. The poem is about the controversial Three Gorges hydroelectric dam in China, a project that involves the flooding of towns and villages.

To listen to the related radio story, visit the California Report's web site at http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R902271630/.

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Film & Animation

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• yangtze
• three gorges
• ralston middle school
• china
• animation
• kqed
• public radio
• the california report

[cobalt789]

@UndeniableTrue1 It was a joint project between our history and animation classes. The History classes did the poetry and voice over, the photos were animated by the animation classes in Flash.

[UndeniableTrue1]

Great, good graphics. Would make one like that, thats cool, how do I make that?

[PersianG54]

haha mr. means rocks!

[jorgito650455]

Ahh ! i hear me !!! yay!

[melaniexoxo1]

means is cool :). i wasnt in this one but i was in the normal class one.lol.

[ezgheib85]

Great video!!! Mr. Means isn't nonsense, he is the best teacher in the world and if you don't think so, your nonsense! You apparently have never been granted the opportunity to be graced with his spectacular teaching skills!

P.S. you spelled nonsense wrong

[silverguitar1221]

i go to this school w00tz!!!

[teddyluk22]

o i saw tht i hav tht teacher

[cherrymuffindevil]

omg!! i wuz in that!!

[AlphaAlphaLima]

I go there and his animation is awsome and Mr Means is a lot of nonsence