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National Association of Rocketry
A site dedicated to model rocketry. Information on clubs, rockets, magazines, and other subjects of interest to model rocketry enthusiasts.
NASA
Beginners Guide to Model Rockets
This resource provides numerous links that will give teachers and students an overview of rocketry.
NASA
Ltp: Rocket Principles
Excellent NASA sponsored site on the principles of rockets. The site relates Newton's 3 laws to the flight of a rocket. Site also has links to activities related to rockets in addition to links about practical rocketry.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Water Rocket Launch
The main focus of this instructional activity is learning about aerospace engineering and the principles of rocketry. To accomplish this, young scholars will work in teams to design, build, and launch a rocket made out of a soda bottle,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Houston, We Have a Problem!
Students apply their mathematics and team building skills to explore the concept of rocketry.Throughout the design process, teamwork is emphasized since the most successful launches occur when groups work effectively to generate creative...
NASA
Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Applying Newton's Laws
Learn how Newton's Laws apply to rocketry. Discover how rockets work, including the engines and propellants.
NASA
Nasa: Adventures in Rocket Science Educator Guide
This NASA educator's guide provides teachers with an outline for teaching students about rocketry. There are many hands-on activities where students can learn about and build rockets.
NASA
Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: How Rockets Work
In this article, learn how rockets work. Discover Newton's Law of Motion and learn how it supports rocketry.
NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center: Timeline of Rocket History
This graphical presentation includes a collection of more than 50 images and descriptions tracing rocketry from ancient times to the present day.
Smithsonian Institution
Nat. Air and Space Museum: Pioneers of Flight: Rockets and Dream of Spaceflight
Read about the history of rocketry and the first rocket inventors who laid the initial foundation for the development of the spaceflight industry.
National Museum of Science and Industry (UK)
Ingenious: Space Technology Images
This series of images is a combined collection of over three museums' collections of space technology and rocketry images. The images are sorted by pages with about nine images per page and over twenty-five pages.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Robert Goddard
This is a detailed biography of the father of modern rocketry, Robert Goddard. It explains how he lived growing up and how be became so interested in space science.
Cosmos 4 kids
Cosmos4 Kids: Exploration: Rockets
The entire history of rocketry took place in 100 years! The early 1900's saw their first appearance, and by the end of the century, rocket technology took many forms with the most famous being the Space Shuttle. The brief, to the point...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hydrogen Oxygen Rockets
Learners investigate how to build and launch a simple rocket that uses hydrogen and oxygen gases that will be mixed to propel the rocket. Students learn the principles of combustion reactions, kinetics, stoichiometry of reactions,...
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Robert Goddard
Learn about the life and contributions of the father of modern rocketry, Robert Goddard, in this article.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Introduction to Force and Motion
How is the motion of an object affected by forces that act on that object? Can you predict how the motion of an object will be affected by balanced and unbalanced forces? Is there a relationship between force, mass, and acceleration? In...
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Florida International University: History of Rockets
A comprehensive site devoted to the history of rockets, with excellent illustrations interspersed throughout.
NASA
Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: A Pictorial History
View pictures, descriptions, and dates of rockets throughout history. Learn about rockets and how they have evolved throughout time.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Model Rockets Aerodynamics: Stability
This science fair project for Science Buddies lets you be the rocket scientist. See how the rocket design changes its performance. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Solid Motor Rocket Propulsion
What does it take to launch a satellite to explore Mars, or a mission to the moon? This project has several possible variations for exploring the physics of rockets. This is rocket science.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Blast Off
Hands on activity where learners focus on aerospace engineering to investigate space flight from the viewpoint of an engineer. They design, build, and launch their rocket, then share their experiences with the class.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Rocket Power
By making and testing simple balloon rockets, students acquire a basic understanding of Newton's third law of motion as it applies to rockets. Using balloons, string, straws and tape, they see how rockets are propelled by expelling...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Into Space!
While building and testing model rockets fueled by antacid tablets, students are introduced to the basic physics concepts on how rockets work. Students revise and improve their initial designs. Note: This activity is similar to the...
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