Today we built and launched rockets! Students had to construct a rocket out of a rectangle and circle piece of paper. The divided the circle into fourths, cut out a forth and made a nosecone to be the tip of the rocket. Then they wrapped the rectangle piece of paper around an old film canister and added wings to the bottom. The taped the nosecone and cylinder together to create the rocket. To get them to launch we filed the canister halfway with water and then dropped an Alka-Seltzer tablet in and quickly snapped on the cap. Students then measured how many inches did their rocket travel.
To check out an insane version of this experiment that was featured on Ellen head to this video and fast forward to about the 2 minute mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsayFUSwKfs
To check out an insane version of this experiment that was featured on Ellen head to this video and fast forward to about the 2 minute mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsayFUSwKfs