{"id":6353,"date":"2014-10-03T01:38:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T06:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2014-10-03T01:38:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T06:38:54","slug":"the-soda-bottle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/the-soda-bottle-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soda Bottle School"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Soda Bottle School<\/a>
\nby Laura Kutner (Author), Suzanne Slade (Author) and Aileen Darragh (Illustrator)<\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> In a Guatemalan village, students squished into their tiny schoolhouse, two grades to a classroom. The villagers had tried expanding the school, but the money ran out before the project was finished. No money meant no wall materials, and that meant no more room for the students. Until they got a wonderful, crazy idea: Why not use soda bottles, which were scattered all around, to form the cores of the walls?<\/p>\n

Snippet:<\/strong> The empty bottles weren’t strong enough to build a wall, so students stuffed the bottles with trash to create eco-ladrillos. Using small sticks, they shoved old chip bags, grocery sacks, and plastic trash into the bottles.<\/p>\n