+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Blast Off!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students build their own rockets. In this rocket lesson, students create the highest flying rocket they can powered by effervescent antacid tablets and water in film canisters. They listen to the story How to Build a Rocket by Hazel...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gas Laws and Alka-Seltzer Rockets

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate the Ideal Gas Law. In this three states of matter lesson, students create Alka-Seltzer rockets using film canisters. Students record observations and data according to the scientific method and explain the gas...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

SPACE: A Journey to Our Future

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students make a rocket, simulate a space environment and use different materials to see their effect on lens.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Look Ma! I'm a Rocket Scientist!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use a ball to push and pull to demonstrate the concept of force. In this force lesson plan, students talk about the importance of force in space and use balls to demonstrate this phenomena.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rocket Physics

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate the relationship between impulse, momentum, kinetic and potential energy and aerodynamic drag. In this physics lesson, students calculate data taken from launching a rocket. They compare the theoretical and actual...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Bottle Rocket Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers design a rocket that stays on air for the longest period of time. In this physics lesson, students research the function of different rocket components. They test their design and make necessary modifications.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rockets on a Shoestring Budgut

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners work together to create rockets on a budget. They discover the limitations that real engineers face when designing and testing their products. They discuss their findings to complete the lesson.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rocketing in Math and Sciences

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make a rocket out of paper. They follow the given instructions and test to see if it will fly. They write about the experiment and are given the opportunity to change their varibles to make their rocket work.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Newton Rocket Car

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars observe a demonstration of Newton's third law of motion using a small wooden car. They discuss Newton's third law of motion and what happens to motion if the mass or acceleration is increased, construct their car, and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Balloon Staging

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students explore rocketry using balloon rockets. They demonstrate how rockets can achieve greater altitudes by using the technology of staging. By using two inflated balloons that slide along a fishing line, they simulate a multistage...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rocket Problems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students solve problems related to rockets. They build a space station out of wood and are given an imaginary problem related to construction. They discover how NASA uses problem solving skills to solve issues related to the...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spin Stabilization

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students investigate methods used by aeronautical engineers to keep rockets on target. After exploring the center of gravity and the center of pressure, students build water rockets. Students use various methods to design fins on the...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

TECH:Model Rocketry - Air Powered (Trans)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe the evolution of rocketry and the impacts of aerospace technology. They explain the basic principles of flight and basic physics of motion. Students design, construct, and launch a small rocket.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fuel Mystery Dis-Solved

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students describe how temperature and surface area exposure affect the rate at which fuel is consumed. They explain why engineers want to know about the properties of a fuel when designing rockets. They create a bar graph of result data.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Eggonaut

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students build a rocket. In this hands-on rocket activity, students work with classmates to create a rocket out of a 2-liter bottle that will protect a raw egg. The goal is to be the team with the rocket which spent the longest time...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Launches for the Stars

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students are introduced to rockets and the space shuttle program. After viewing a 1960s show, they examine the role and history of NASA and how it evolved into having a space shuttle program. In groups, they create their own model rocket...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gross Motor Development

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a game reflecting the solar system, stars, and rockets. They simulate how space invaders move and hit stars and rockets. They discuss how scientists study the stars and planets.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Straw Rockets in Flight! Engineer's Delight

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study air compression and how it can power a rocket.  In this creative lesson students work with a partner and build a rocket then compare air compressions and graph their results. 
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Study of Projectile Motion using Straw Rockets

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design and launch their own rockets.  In this experimental instructional activity students launch their own rockets and record the various angles and distance that they go.  Each student has time to redesign their rocket and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Balloon Rockets

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students build pinwheel airplanes and balloon rockets to determine which ones fly faster and which fly farther.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Systems: Up, Up and Away

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students design and test rockets to determine what variables are necessary in order to optimize the system to make it function best.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Investigation 5 - Balloon Rockets

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make a ballon rocket to study the relationship between the force applied to an object and the resulting motion.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Launching Rockets

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss experiences of watching a rocket launch either on television or in person before making paper rockets. They make and color rockets which they attempt to launch using a strong breath blown through a straw at the...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Balloon Rocket

For Students 4th - 5th
In this friction investigation instructional activity, students follow the directions to construct a balloon rocket. Students use a string lubricated with soap and a drinking straw with a balloon. This is a page from the UK.

Other popular searches