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Education.com

Education.com: Design Challenge: Making a Bottle Rocket

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this design challenge, your child will be asked to create a bottle rocket using typical household items. The list of materials includes everything they will need to create and launch a rocket, and we...
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NASA

Nasa: Innovative Engines

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA's Glenn Research Center reports on its innovative engines program, namely ion propulsion, a technology that once only powered imaginary spacecraft in science fiction novels. It is now a reality.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Rocket

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides an encyclopedia definition of a rocket, including information on rocket history, size, types, and more.
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Michigan Reach Out

Nasa Teacher's Resource Center: Balloon Staging

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Activity to show student how rockets reach high altitudes.
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Other

Bolonkin: The Dev. Of Soviet Rocket Engines

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site by Alexander Bolonkin gives an extract from the book "The development of Soviet Rocket Engines" giving a brief historical overview of and the problems encountered by the Soviet rocket industry.
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Other

Space Flight Now/air Breathing Rocket Engines

For Students 9th - 10th
Short article on a experimental air breathing rocket engine.
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Other

International Space Station: Propulsion

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on International Space Station boost procedures. Click to related information.
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Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Pop a Rocket

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial by Bill Nye explains how to make a rocket powered by the formation of gasses. It demonstrates the importance of pressure in other explosive things like rocket engines and volcanoes.