Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8
Subject
Engineering Design, Technology, Rocketry
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
Students build a foam rocket and design fins to increase the rocket’s stability.
Students will:
- Apply the steps of the engineering design process to successfully complete a team challenge.
- Design, build and test their own foam rocket.
- Collect data for comparison with other groups.
- Improve their fin design to increase rocket stability.
- Understand the relationship between a rocket’s stability and its trajectory.
Next Generation Science Standards: MS-PS2-2, MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS1-3, MS-ETS1-4
Activity One: Design a Foam Rocket With Stabilizing Fins
This lesson plan is part of the “Propulsion With the Space Launch System Educator Guide.”