TERM 2 ROCKETS
Last term room 4 inquired into the world of rockets. We made balloon rockets, puff rockets and bottle rockets.
We examined the role that fins have on a rocket by creating two sets of fins and tested them on a puff rocket to see their effectiveness.
We explored Newton's third law of motion 'For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction' by creating balloon rockets, which we launched in our classroom.
We examined the role that fins have on a rocket by creating two sets of fins and tested them on a puff rocket to see their effectiveness.
Finally we used our new understanding about rockets to build and launch a bottle rocket. First of all our teacher created a control rocket. We then selected one feature on the rocket to modify. We predicted how our modified rockets would fly compared with the control rocket and tried to explain our predictions. After launching them we observed the differences between our rockets and the control rocket and tried to explain the differences. Check out the video clip below!
We had lots of fun launching our rockets. A special thanks to Gus's dad, Brian, who helped build and launched our rockets and to our caretaker Ian who built the launch pads that we used.
