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Rocketry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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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.
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Project X-35

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers demonstrate rocketry principles through a cooperative, problem solving simulation. They work in teams to simulate the development of a commercial proposal to design, build, and launch a rocket.
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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...
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Rocket Pinwheel

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students explore the action-reaction principle of Newton's Third Law of Motion. In this rocketry instructional activity, students construct a pinwheel using a balloon, soda straw, and wooden pencil. Students investigate the results.
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Rockets

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners explain the basics of rocketry and explain the relationships between mass, acceleration, and thrust.
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Newton's Laws: Making Simple Rockets

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students can use rocketry to understand Newton's Three Laws of Motion.
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Rockets Away with Newton's Laws of Motion

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders comprehend Newton's Laws of Motion and to use the scientific method in rocketry sub-unit. They work through the scientific method. Students illustrate how science and Newton's Laws can be used in everyday situations and...
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Paper Rockets

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students create rockets to test stability. In this rocketry lesson, students discover how rockets fly through air as they follow the procedures included in this activity.
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Rocketry in Motion

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate why a balloon flies in one direction as air escapes in the opposite direction, which helps them understand the nature of rockets and fireworks. Individually and in teams, students conduct research to create a...
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Rocket Pinwheel

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students observe a balloon-powered pinwheel to study the principles of rocketry. They study Newton's Third Law of Motion.
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Rocket Science 101

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore the aspects of Newton's First and Third Laws of Motion as they conduct controlled rocketry experiments and analyze the Mars Mission in terms of the principles of rocketry.
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3-2-1 Pop!

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Young scholars explore rocketry and demonstrate how rocket liftoff is an application of Newton's Laws of Motion. They construct a rocket powered by the pressure generated from an effervescing antacid tablet reacting with water.
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Paper Rockets

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students design, construct, and fly paper rockets that travel the greatest distance possible across a floor model of the solar system. They construct small flying rockets out of paper and propel them by blowing air through a straw.
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Rocket Car

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students construct a balloon-powered rocket car from a Styrofoam tray, pins, tape, and a flexible straw, and test it along a measured track on the floor. They experiment with ways of increasing the distance the rocket car travels.
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Altitude Tracking

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students construct simple altitude tracking devices for determining the altitude a rocket reaches in its flight. They estimate the altitude a rocket achieves during flight.
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Rocket Transportation

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students use problem solving skills to lift a load using a balloon rocket. They construct a rocket out of a balloon and use it to carry a paper clip payload.
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Bottle Rocket

For Teachers 4th - 9th
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.
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A Pictorial History of Rockets

For Students K - 12th
3, 2, 1: Blast off! Take a look at the history of rockets through a camera lens. A set of 41 cards displays more than 2,000 years of rockets, from their use as toys to space flight. 
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Physics: Water-Bottle Rockets

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students research how physics laws create motion and propel rockets. They examine how to build water-bottle rockets.
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Do Some Research: Rockets

For Students 4th - 7th
After completing library or internet research about a question on the "Father of American Rocketry," students summarize their findings in a short report in the space provided. Students can also include a small drawing to illustrate what...
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Building and Launching Rocket Kits

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students, in groups, build and decorate rocket kits and then launch them.
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Physics Lab Rockets

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students construct and test balloon rockets and a model rocket. In this rocket science lesson, students use an inquiry-based method to master balloon rockets and have a shoot-off with the goal of attaining the highest altitude. Next,...
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Blast Off!

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
With the use of a model rocket kit, aspiring aerospace engineers work cooperatively to construct and launch a rocket. A preparatory reading assignment is included, covering Newton's laws of motion and information about the first...

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