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The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen as it launches from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, Sunday, April 21, 2013.

Audience

Educators

Grade Levels

Grades 5-8, Informal Education

Subject

Engineering Design, Physical Science, Technology, Forces and Motion, Rocketry

Type

Educator Guides, Lesson Plans / Activities

The eight hands-on science activities in this module are aligned to Next Generation Science Standards, and demonstrate how Newton’s Laws of Motion are related to rocketry. Activities include designing and building rocket racecars, balloon rockets, paper rockets, foam rockets and two-liter bottle rockets.

Rockets Rock Module

This module is part of the NASA Out of School Learning Network set of activities.
Other modules in the series:
Aeronautics
Earth and Space Explorers
Living and Working in Space