November 3 -5 Trip permission slip due Wednesday, November 5
Wednesday - Balloon Buggy - Optional: research Newton's laws or helpful web sites to construct a balloon buggy.
Your Challenge: Use the materials and tools given to you by Mrs. Bowers to construct a balloon-powered vehicle that will travel the greatest distance.
November 10 - 14 Balloon Buggy Racers Minimum Days - Wednesday and Thursday
Classwork
Monday - View Rockets DVD. Write summary
Tuesday - Friday - Complete Balloon Buggy - Final race and quiz on Friday
Quiz question - The Balloon Buggy best demonstrates which one of Newton's Laws. Explain why.
As you raced your Balloon Buggy how did you modify your Buggy? What undesirable results did it improve? How did it improve your Buggy's efficiency?
How did you apply this law to make an efficient Balloon Buggy?
Homework
Tuesday - Read section 1 of Rocket Packet; Brief History of Rockets- write summary (Due Thursday)
Thursday - Read section 2 of Rocket packet; Rocket Principals- write summary (Due Tuesday)
November 17 - 21
Homework
Monday - Field trip to the United Nations and the Earth and Space Museum. Remember to bring a lunch. Worksheet
Tuesday - Read Section 3 of the Rockets packet ; Practical Rocketry- write summary (Due Thursday)
Friday - Review Newton's Laws - Watch Powerpoint
Classwork
Monday - Field Trip to The United Nations and The Museum of Natural History
Tuesday- Debrief Balloon Buggy Race and Field Trip.
Wednesday & Thursday - Constructing a rocket powered by the pressure generated by an effervescing antacid tablet reacting to water. How does this demonstrate how rocket liftoff is an application of Newton's Laws of Motion?
Friday- Design, construct, and fly paper rockets that will travel the greatest distance possible across a floor model of the solar system. How does size of rocket and number of fins effect flight?
November 24 - 26
Classwork
Monday - Fly rocket. Make improvements or new design.
Think About:
•What makes one rocket perform better than another rocket? (Do not forget to examine the weight of each rocket. Rockets made with extra tape and larger fins weigh more.)
•How small can the fins be and still stabilize the rocket?
•How many fins does a rocket need to stabilize it?
•What would happen if you placed the fins near the rockets nose?
•What will happen if you bend the lower tips on the fins pinwheel fashion?
•Are rocket fins necessary in outer space?
Tuesday- Introduce Project X - 35 - Day 1
•Summary- Write a summarizing paragraph in which you pick which rocket performed the best and explain your ides for why it performed as it did. (See Monday for "Think About Questions", to help you write the summary.)
•Form Rocket Companies
Wednesdat - Minimum Day
•Weather permitting - rocket launch demo
•Brainstorm ideas for design and budget
•Sketch preliminary rocket design
X-35 Proposal - Use Newton's Laws and information learned from the last three activities, to design a Bottle Rocket. This will be completed in Corporation Groups of Three. Project Due Friday, December 12.
Resources
http://www.Seeds2Learn.com/rocketSoftware.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pagrosse/h2oRocketIndex.htm
http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/rktbot.html
