Plastic Bottle Waterfall

Another day another amazing investigation. With surprisingly good weather for autumn the students have been wanting to find different ways to investigate the outdoor space. Today we decided to create a waterfall using donated plastic bottles.

We started off by looking at examples on the internet and quite a few students decided they would like to team up to create one for our outdoor space. The students drew up a plan of what we would need and how to get the water from the top of the fence to the bottom in the most creative way. There was great language being used to describe what it should look like like zigzag pattern, tilted.

The students cut holes into the bottles and then we went into the outdoor space to begin placing the bottles. The students chose where to put them and what angle was needed and i helped to tie them to the fence. We tested each bottle was in the correct position by pouring water through them before we added the next. Here are some photos of our waterfall.