Recycled Bottle Greenhouse

While student teaching at an area elementary school, I was given the freedom to implement my own curriculum for part of the school day. I initiated a class garden, and with it being mid-January, the idea for a class greenhouse soon followed. Our greenhouse design was was inspired by a similar structure built out of recycled 2 litre bottles at the National Botanic Garden of Wales as part of a recycling expo. I thought such a group project could galvanize the class and would also offer us a wealth of different learning opportunities through the winter. Students helped collect some 1300 bottles for the construction and came away from the project with great first hand knowledge of the importance of reuse and recycling.

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