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| | Balloon Staging -- Grades 5-12
This activity demonstrates multistage rockets using balloons; then it has students engineer their own designs for multistage rockets. | |
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| | Brief History of Rockets
This brief history outlines how today's rockets are natural outgrowths of thousands of years of experimentation and research on rockets and rocket propulsion. | |
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| | Launch Time -- Grades Pre-K-2
Students launch paper rockets and graph the distances the rockets travel. | |
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| | Launch Vehicle Family Album
This "family photo album" of NASA launch vehicles contains samples of historic rockets, modern rockets and concept designs. | |
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| | Lunar Module in Space -- Grades 5-12
View the launch of Apollo 11 and watch as the command and lunar modules dock shortly after leaving Earth orbit for the moon. | |
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| | Paper Rockets -- Grades K-8
This lesson plan includes an activity in which students experiment with rocket length and fin shape to construct and test small rockets made of paper.
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| | Practical Rocketry
Modern rockets are more efficient than the rockets of old because of increased understanding of the scientific principles behind rocketry. | |
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| | Project X-35 -- Grades 5-12
Demonstrate rocketry principles through a cooperative problem-solving simulation. | |
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| | Rocket Principles
Newton's Laws of Motion form the basic principles of rocketry. | |
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| | Rockets Educator Guide
Teach the history, scientific principles and mathematics of rockets using these activities and lesson plans.
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| | Speed It Up Activity -- Grades 3-5
This lesson simulates how different propellant systems affect the velocity, or speed, of a rocket by measuring the height the rocket is launched. | |
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