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Discover Primary Science: Design and Make a Foam Rocket
Students are introduced to science in an interactive and fun way. Learners investigate how to make a rocket with this innovative activity. The resource includes a tutorial, an activity sheet, and web links.
Science Daily
Science Daily: Rocket Science
Explains advances in the use of boron combustion rocket engines.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Action Reaction! Rocket
Students construct a rocket from a balloon propelled along a guide string. They use this model to learn about Newton's three laws of motion, examining the effect of different forces on the motion of the rocket.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Action Reaction Rocket!
Students make a rocket that travels along a string to discover the role that Newton's Laws of Motion play in engineering.
NASA
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.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
NASA
Nasa: Model Rocket
A comprehensive tutorial that depicts the parts of a subsystem within a system. This tutorial dissects a rocket and explains how each part is integral to its actual functioning. Excellent links to otherresources dealing with aerodynamics.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Stomp Rocket
With a little engineering, students can design a stomp rocket that is propelled by air pressure to fly at least 10 ft in the air. This website contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Rocket Inspired by Sls
A website giving a challenge for students to construct a stomp rocket that can carry a ping pong ball and hit a target.
NASA
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.
NASA
Nasa: Rockets Educator Guide: Pop Can "Hero Engine"
This lesson has learners make water propelled engines using pop drink cans. Students will test the effectiveness of the engines and determine anything that affects the action.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Rocket
Wikipedia provides an encyclopedia definition of a rocket, including information on rocket history, size, types, and more.
NASA
Nasa: The Space Place: Build a Bubble Powered Rocket
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides fun information on bubble powered rockets. "Build your own rocket using paper and fizzing tablets! Watch it lift off. How high does your rocket go?"
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Explore Matchstick Rockets
If you have wondered how rockets are propelled forward or if you enjoy the excitement of launching a rocket, this is an activity for you. You will learn how to make tiny rockets from aluminum foil and matchsticks, and how to ignite them...
NASA
Nasa: Rocket Modeler Iii 1.2h Beta
This NASA program offers users the opportunity to understand rocket design by working with variable values. Java is needed for RocketModeler III 1.2h to run.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Pop Rockets
An experiment where students launch a simple rocket using a film canister, water, and an antacid tablet.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Ask Dr. Universe: What Materials Would You Use to Make a Rocket?
Dr. Universe explains how many choices there are in building a rocket. A fellow professor at Washington State University helps to understand the basics of rockets.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Striped Rocket Frog (Litoria Nasuta)
This entry identifies the defining characteristics of the Litoria Nasuta, more commonly known as the striped rocket frog.
CommonLit
Common Lit: What Is a Rocket
A learning module that begins with "What Is a Rocket" by NASA, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and student...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Engagement: Reading Rockets: Topics a to Z
This site provides a link to the website Reading Rockets: Topics A to Z which offers reading engagement resources.
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Balloon Rockets [Pdf]
Science experiment that demonstrates Newton's Third Law by launching rockets made out of balloons. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what causes balloons to shoot forward and how you can make them...
Historica Canada
Historica Canada: Heritage Minutes: Maurice "Rocket" Richard
Maurice "Rocket" Richard was a Canadian sporting legend and national hero setting many NHL records during his 18 year hockey career.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: 1 D Kinematics: Motion of a Two Stage Rocket
Observe the motion of the two-stage rocket and the corresponding, animated velocity-time graph in these illustrations.
Science Bob Pflugfelder
Science Bob: Pringles Can Rocket Fuel
Science Bob provides instructions for making a pringles can rocket fuel using common supplies with information on how it works.
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