Classroom Activity

Launch Altitude Tracker
First page of the Launch Altitude Tracker

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Audience: Educators
Grades: 4-12


Students use a sighting tube, angle measurements and a tangent table to determine the altitude a rocket reaches in its flight.

Launch Altitude Tracker [279KB PDF file]

This activity is part of the Rockets Educator Guide.