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This activity involves shooting a rocket high into the air by rapidly squashing a plastic bottle launcher. It’s a great opportunity to challenge the old saying “What goes up must come down”. You won’t get this rocket into space – but some real rockets do go fast enough to prove the saying wrong.
Directions: Fill in the sections below as you work through the scientific method using paper rockets. IDEA STARTERS. Why, how, when, where, what, which. Speed, distance, height, time. Length, diameter (width), shape, quantity (number of) Rocket parts: fins, nose, body . Rocket parts:
The paper rockets will allow us to do experiments to answer questions we have about rockets. Explore (90 minutes) Guide your class through the steps of the scientific method using the paper rockets as an example.
Rocket Science Activities. From NASA, these activities look at the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical foundations of rocketry to provide exciting classroom opportunities for authentic hands-on experimentation. Rockets have formed the basis of space exploration.
Students perform a simple science experiment to learn how a rocket works and demonstrate Newton’s third law of motion.
This lesson will give students a very basic understanding of rocket construction and the parts needed for a rocket to fly. Students will be able to build their own rocket and launch them using a stomp system which is very easy and very safe for young learners.
Guide your class through the steps of the scientific method, using paper rockets as an example. Use the student worksheet as a guide. You may choose to assign some of these steps as homework instead of doing them in class.
