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]
wow can you say something else about how to reuse bottles?
I am doing this in school right now and was wondering if you had any necessary items and what you might reccommend for this. Please respond ASAP
@Sara – I’ve never made this project in total. I;m not actually sure. I mean food will eventually decompose in water or most other liquids. Did you check out the tips at the site?
hey we are doing this project in our school right now and i was wondering if u had any suggestions for what i should put in mine to make the food decompose and leave the liquid on the bottom
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.
Awesome! I’m going to share this with my Earth Scouts and homeschool groups.
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!