One of the exciting challenges for engineers is the idea of exploration. This lesson looks more closely at Spaceman Rohan, Spacewoman Tess, their daughter Maya, and their challenges with getting to space, setting up satellites, and exploring uncharted waters via a canoe. This lesson reinforces rockets as a vehicle that helps us explore outside the Earth's atmosphere (i.e., to move without air) by using the principles of Newton's third law of motion. Also, the ideas of thrust, control and weight - all principles that engineers deal with when building a rocket - are introduced.

Concepts

center of gravity, engineering, thrust, weight, newton's laws of motion, stem

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Additional Tags

center of pressure, control, third law of motion, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, rocket, rocketry

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)