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- 7th - 12th
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Students view "Men in Space: From Goddard to Armstrong," taking a examine the the extraordinary lives of the men who conquered space. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students participate in design and engineering activities pertaining to model and real rockets. They observe the launch a model rocket. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students study the concept of thrust and how it propels rockets into space. They discover why airplanes cannot travel into space while considering the engineering techniques use in designing rockets. They look at how space explorers use engineers. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students work together to create their own bottle rocket. They use simple tools and wood. They test them once they are built and discuss what modifications could be made. They decorate and customize their rockets as well. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 6th
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Students examine the way various inventions have changed their lives. As a class, they create a timeline of the most important inventions during their lifetime and another timeline of how old they were when it was invented. Individually, they use the internet to research one inventor and write their own biography of him or her. To end the lesson, they discuss the positives and negatives of new inventions. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students engage in a lesson which reinforces rockets as a vehicle that helps us explore outside the Earth's atmosphere by using the principles of Newton's third law of motion. Also, the ideas of thrust, control and weight ¿ all principles that engineers deal with when building a rocket ¿ are introduced. Students examine the accomplishments of Sylvia Earl and Junko Tabei; famous women explorers. Full Review »
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- 4th - 9th
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Students construct and launch a simple bottle rocket. Working in teams, they construct a simple bottle rocket from 2-liter soft drink bottles and other materials. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students explore rocket motion with a slingshot-like device that throws a weighted wooden block backward to produce forward motion. First they'll hypothesize the motion of the rocket and wooden block. Then they'll test their theories. In the end, students identify balanced and unbalanced forces in their daily lives. Full Review »
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- 5th - 12th
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Students examine the safety procedures on a rocket launch. Newton's Second Law of Motion is reviewed in detail. This exercise takes inexpensive materials and demonstrates Newton's Second Law of Motion: F=ma. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students design and construct a paper rocket that can be launched with a drinking straw. They participate in a lecture and read an article about rocketry and how Newton's Third Law applies to rocket launches. Each student constructs their own rocket and competes to have the farthest launch. Full Review »
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