Got Extra 2-Liter Bottles?: Create An Eco-Bottle Treehouse
The Eco-Bottle Treehouse Project is pretty in-depth; but a nice project to reuse old 2-liters and to teach kids about Biodiversity and Ecology.
Stats from the project website:
- Learner Level: Beginner; Intermediate
- Target Grade/Age Level: High School (Ages 15-18). Can be modified for many age/grade levels
- Learning Objective(s): Plan and build an ecobottle (or eco-column) out of five 2-liter bottles that will include an aquatic section, a decomposition section, and a terrestrial section. Observe the ecobottle for 4 to 6 weeks and record their hypotheses, observations and analysis in their science notebooks. Create a treehouse for each ecobottle group, based on their research of this simulated ecosystem.
Like I said, in-depth. Also, you’ll need a bunch of supplies, but from what I see, you won’t need anything that’s too tough to come by. This would make a perfect eco-homeschool project, or just something cool you could try on weekends.
[Image © 2005 Kathryn Orzech via Tree of Life Web Project]
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3 opinions for Got Extra 2-Liter Bottles?: Create An Eco-Bottle Treehouse
OuterBanksMom
Jun 14, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I love your blog. Thanks for this great post! I homeschool my 13 year old son and this will be a fantastic project for us to do together! Bravo!
Jodi Plume
Jun 16, 2008 at 7:37 am
Awesome! I’m going to share this with my Earth Scouts and homeschool groups.
Jennifer
Jun 16, 2008 at 3:09 pm
OuterBanksMom - you are too sweet. This is an awesome project, I was really glad I found it.
Jodi - I never thought about scouts doing this. I’m going to have to look up Earth Scouts, I’ve never heard of them. Sounds cool though.
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