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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hydrogen Oxygen Rockets
Students 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,...
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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.
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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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Rocket Races
This lesson allows students to create their own rockets using foam trays and drinking straws that are powered by a balloon. Students will race their rockets on a track and determine why some rockets moved faster than others.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: The Hobby Shop: The Rocket
Design your own virtual rocket, and then test launch it. Watch tutorials about Newton's laws of motion and rocket basics to help you improve your rocket's performance.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: What Comes Next
Learn about NASA's plans for the next 50 years to replace the space shuttle. Discover how the new plan involves two new launch vehicles.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Pop Can "Hero Engine"
This instructional activity has young scholars make water propelled engines using pop drink cans. Students will test the effectiveness of the engines and determine anything that affects the action.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: 3, 2, 1, Puff!
This lesson gives directions for students to construct small, paper rockets that can be launched inside. The students will determine how stable the rocket is and launch them by blowing air through a straw.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Newton Car
This lesson gives students direction on how to experiment using gravity and force. Students will make a wooden car and use different forces to make the car propel.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Pop! Rocket Launcher
This lesson allows students to construct a rocket launcher that can be used for several different types of rockets. This rocket launcher is propelled by students stomping on a two liter bottle to provide force.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Pop! Rockets
This lesson plan allows students to make a rocket with card stock paper. Students will be able to launch the rocket and then discuss the variables affecting the height of each launch.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Foam Rocket
This lesson plan shows students how to construct a rocket using pipe insulating foam. Students will investigate the relationship between launch angle and range when launching their rockets powered by rubber bands.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Launch Altitude Tracker
This lesson plan allows student to make a launch altitude tracker. Student will use a sighting tube and angle measurements to track the altitude of rockets that are launched.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Rocket Wind Tunnel
This lesson's objective is to construct a rocket wind tunnel and have student predict the performance of their rocket. Students will use this rocket wind tunnel to measure and modify parts of the rocket to make it fly higher.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Water Rocket Launcher
Follow the directions in the lesson plan to construct a water rocket launcher made from off the shelf hardware and wood.
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Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Water Rocket Construction
Students will follow steps to construct a rocket from a two-liter soft drink bottle and other materials. Students will use the water rocket launcher to launch this rocket.
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Nasa: 3, 2, 1, Liftoff! Educator Guide
These activities introduce students to the International Space Station and how rockets were vital to its construction. The provided lessons correlate to all subject areas.
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