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Rocketry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers 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...
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Newton Gets Me Moving

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders experiment with Newton's three laws of motion.  In this motion lesson, 4th graders explore the three laws of motion and then work in small groups collaborating while experimenting with these laws. Numerous resources...
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Printing Practice: "Rocket"

For Students K - 1st
In this printing practice worksheet, learners trace and write the word "Rocket," then color a picture of a rocket. Page has links to additional activities. 
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Getting in Shape

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners create tangram rockets out of shapes and practice shape recognition.
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Impulse, Momentum, and the Conservation of Momentum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What happens when two worlds collide? In the first of several activities, future physicists experiment with colliding ball bearings or Newton's cradle. Another activity requires the use of an air track with cars to examine collision....
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10 More or 10 Less?

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Take a rocket to the stars with using a math worksheet. Here, four sets of alien saucers, moons, rockets, and stars prompt young learners to match numbers with one more or ten more. Color the pictures for extra fun when learners are...
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Counting Down

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
It's time for liftoff for these math rockets and the only way to get them into the sky is through the power of subtraction! Scholars begin with a double-digit number, subtracting numbers in a sequence to reach zero. There are four...
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Questioning NASA

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Space science and math collide in this inquiry that investigates launching times for antacid-tablet rockets! Upper elementary or middle school learners collect data as they launch these mini rockets. They apply concepts of place value...
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Unit IX: Worksheet 1 - Impulsive Force

For Students 9th - 12th
Bouncing balls and rockets taking off provide ammunition for your physics arsenal. Your class will solve mulit-step problems for velocity, momentum, and force. This is an ideal homework assignment for practice solving motion problems.
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Gravity Launch

For Students 3rd - 12th
Getting a ship into orbit isn't rocket science. Oh, wait...that's exactly what it is! Learn the basics of the concepts of thrust, launch angle, and gravitational pull in this fun and progressively challenging game.
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3-2-1 Blast Off!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work cooperatively in groups to assemble and launch a rocket.
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October Sky

For Students 9th - 12th
In this rockets worksheet, students complete the questions while watching the video, October Sky. Students learn about the experimental aspects of building a rocket. Students complete 4 graphic organizers and 11 short answer questions.
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Launch Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create and launch their own paper rockets. They complete graphs to show distances. They discuss what modifications could be made to make it go further.
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Rocketry in Motion

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils 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 timeline...
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Balloon Staging

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students discover how rockets can reach a higher altitude by using staging. They use balloons to demonstrate this concept and then practice with rockets. They discuss the results to end the lesson.
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Strawkets and Control

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners investigate the effect that fins have on rocket flight. They construct two paper rockets that they can launch by blowing through a straw, one with fins and one with wings, and observe and record the results of the rocket flights.
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3-2-1 Blast Off!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore physics by participating in a flight experiment. In this rocket design lesson, students discuss the scientific process and how chemical reaction can create the energy needed to boost a rocket. Students utilize...
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Strawkets and Thrust

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners investigate the effect of thrust on rocket flight. They construct two paper rockets, one with a smaller exit nozzle, and compare/contrast the distances traveled by the rockets.
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Thunderbirds: Forces

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students investigate the concepts of thrust and how rockets are launched into the air. They watch a clip of the television show Thunderbirds, and draw a basic diagram of the Thunderbird ships, labeling it with arrows to identify the...
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The Rocket Sled

For Students 9th - 12th
In this secondary mathematics worksheet, students use the given information regarding a rocket’s distance and time to calculate the speed of sound.  The one page worksheet contains one problem with the solution. 
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Mini Rockets

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore gases. In this chemical energy lesson plan, students will observer chemical reactions and infer a conclusion about reaction producing gasses.
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Pop Rockets

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars study Newton's Third Law of Motion which involves action and reaction. They discover what makes a rocket go and then design and construct a rocket that will launch the furthest using the pressure created by an antacid...
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Rocket Me into Space

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders 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...
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Rocket Design: Aerodynamics, Trajectories

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use science inquiry skills to build and launch a simple rocket, from several wooden launch pads of various angles, to determine what trajectory angle carry a rocket the greatest distance.

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