Bottle.flip Challenge
Rosalee Ocegueda
Recently I had one of those Brain Pops I have sometimes and thought about this: What if we tested the bottles with water and then the students could use the gathered data and design their own challenge?
This is very basic and super simple. You just need empty water bottles. I had 16.9-ounce bottles already and just bought the smallest packages of three other sizes. I did plan this so I drank the water (and Mt. Dew) and saved all those bottles!
Other Materials: For the experimentation part of this challenge you need water and bottles. You will also need towels, containers to use for pouring the water, calculators, and filler items for the design challenge. We used beans, beads, sand, marbles, pushpins, candy corn, rice, and un-popped popcorn.
My first inclination was just to have the students measure the bottles with rulers and mark the levels. But my bottles were all different heights and had different diameters. I knew this would not be mathematically correct!
Using the ten-ounce bottle I poured in 2.5 ounces of water and marked the water level. Then I added 2.5 more ounces and marked the bottle. This gave me measures of one-fourth and one-half. I repeated this two more times and had three-fourths and a full bottle.
Think about it for a minute- one student would flip all four bottles fifteen times at each water level. Yeah, it took about ten minutes to know this was not going to work. There were too many students without a job and the flipper was getting tired.
So, we revised the rules right in the middle of the first class and by the second class, I also had a new data table. With the second version, the students were partnered. Each student flipped a bottle five times and recorded the number landed.
The data analysis included determining a fractional amount of landed flips versus total flips. We turned that fraction into a landing percentage. Using those percentages students could quickly identify which bottle at which water level was the most accurate.
Listen, I get it, it is a little annoying and with the move towards reusable water bottles, it is also wasteful. Which is I why I propose taking the trend and making it work in the classroom with a fun game, some STEM, and technology integration.
Ask any of your students what they THINK makes for the best bottle and water level. Every student will have a different idea and preference. So challenge them to test it to find their ideal water bottle!
Students will start with a variety of bottles and will narrow it down to one water bottle style that has the best chance of landing a flip. Students will use the same technique and the same relative water level with each bottle. Students will also decide how many times they are tossing each bottle. This number will stay the same through the whole experiment. It is important to recognize the variables when starting the task. Recording sheets help students stay on task and work independently.
Next students will crunch the numbers to figure out the success rate. Since I teach 3rd, I included a step-by-step visual for how to do this, but older students can be tasked to determine this on their own.
Students will create a frequency table and graph. I made a sample so my third graders could see how the data can be made visual with either a bar graph or a line plot. Students will then find the average times they can expect to land any bottle flipped a given amount of times.
Students will crunch their new data, record it, and will use what they learned to design an ideal bottle. Either students can use their own data to design theirs or they can do this after each student presents results to the class.
Orange and Sis are gonna do the water bottle flip challenge. But the Water Bottle doesn't want to do it because he thinks the challenge is "outdated". But Orange and Sis annoy the water bottle so much, that he starts to flip out of anger.
Bottle Flipping is a social media challenge that involves throwing a plastic bottle, typically filled with water, in such a way that it lands upright on a flat surface. Videos of people performing bottle flips are often posted on video-sharing sites like Vine and YouTube.
On May 24th, 2016, Twitter user @ScottieFinanger[1] tweeted a video of his classmate Mike Senatore performing his bit during a high school talent show in Charlotte, North Carolina, which begins with him pacing around on stage in the auditorium to build up suspense before he throws a water bottle that lands perfectly upside-down onto a small table, causing the audience to roar in celebration. That day, YouTuber Arlington Johnson reuploaded the video (shown below). Over the next four months, the video received upwards of 5.6 million views and 7,700 comments.
In the following weeks, Senatore's viral video performance gave rise to an international trend of "bottle flipping" among teenagers around the world. On July 18th, the Dude Perfect YouTube channel uploaded a compilation of bottle flipping video clips (shown below, left). On August 1st, YouTuber Sam Tabor uploaded a video of skateboarder Ryan Bracken flipping bottles while skateboarding at a skate park (shown below, right). Within two months, the video received more than 980,000 views and 890 comments.
On August 20th, 2016, YouTuber Ryan Higa uploaded a montage of himself and several friends flipping bottles on various surfaces (shown below). Within one month, the video gained over 5.8 million views and 34,800 comments.
The following day, NBC Today[2] ran an interview with Senatore about the viral video of his talent show performance, during which the teenager explained that he started flipping bottles during his junior year in chemistry class and turned it into his "talent" over time, though he couldn't be sure whether it was going to work at the first attempt.
On May 26th, 2016, days after the talent show video went viral, Fusion[3] published an article titled "Here's How to Perfect the Water Bottle Flip, the Teen Meme of the Moment." In early October, as the challenge continued to grow in momentum, several national U.S. and U.K. news outlets, including New York Times, CNN and The Independent, reported on the parents' growing annoyance with the trend.
In March 2017, Instagram user @mo150 uploaded a video of his friend blowing on a stacked plastic glass to give it a lift and land it on top of a third glass placed a short distance away. On March 17th, WorldStarHipHop tweeted the video via its official Twitter account, garnering more than 4,000 retweets and 8,000 likes within the first 72 hours. In the following days, a number of similar videos attempting the same trick were uploaded to Twitter under the hashtag #CupBlowingChallenge.
NEW YORK -- With the Knicks providing little resistance, some of the Cavaliers resorted to playing the water-bottle challenge to kill time on the bench Wednesday night during the closing moments of Cleveland's 126-94 win.
Irving successfully nailed a flip, but it wasn't caught on camera. The video that went viral showed a few Cavs players failing miserably. At one point, James tossed the bottle forward and it landed on the court. James sprawled out to quickly grab the bottle while play went to the opposite end of the court.
"I was just trying to follow in the kids' footsteps and really just put my mark on the water-bottle challenge, man," Irving added, in reference to online videos of epic bottle flips. "It was awesome. But hey, move on."
"I always have fun," James said. "The game of basketball is always fun for me. Obviously, when you lose a game, you feel a certain way about it, you think about what you could have done better. But the game of basketball is fun, and for me ... [when] I start showing up and I am not having fun no more, then I won't be sitting talking to you guys postgame."
While the reserves finished the game, LeBron James and Kyrie Irving passed the time by playing the water bottle flip challenge, the goal obviously being to land a partially filled bottle on the floor.
Last year water bottles had YouTube flipping out! Literally, everyone was trying their hand at the water bottle flip challenge. But there's more to it than just skill and luck. I'm here to give you the secret hacks that you need to become the mic dropping finale at your school's next talent show.
In this challenge, the contestant will throw a partially full bottle of water, end over end, in an attempt to land it upright on a podium. With the bottle partially full, its center of gravity is in constant motion, creating an unpredictable flip. The contestant will have 10 attempts to land a total of 1 upright bottle.
The contestant will have ten attempts to land a total of one upright bottle. This is a level 3 challenge in the United States and a Level 6 challenge in Australia. It also has ben played as a Level 8 and 9 challenge in the Philippines with the distance of the table being much further and having unlimited attempts. In the Last Man Standing Format, the player is required to do the challenge twice, and another version of this challenge required the contestant to flip two bottles using one hand with a shorter distance to the Filipino version, similar to Double Trouble.
To increase the impact of the challenge and highlight the benefit of the simple act of recycling, evian, in partnership with the social business Plastic Bank, will reclaim a bottle from nature for every video posted with the hashtag #flipitforgood.
I for sure thought the dab died with Cam Newton after his team lost the Super Bowl back in February because we haven't seen much of it since. But between the dab, and the bottle challenge, I can honestly say that I wouldn't be sad if either of these disappeared in 2017... however, seeing this little girl perform both in the video, I'm willing to let it slide just this last time :)
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