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Black and white illustration of rockets

Audience

Educators

Grade Levels

Grades K-4

Subject

Physical Science, Technology, Forces and Motion, Rocketry

Type

Lesson Plans / Activities

Students in grades K-2 perform a simple science experiment with a balloon rocket to learn how a rocket works and to demonstrate Newton’s third law of motion. Students will predict the motion of a rocket, perform an experiment to verify and repeat the experiment to validate the results.

Next Generation Science Standards: K-PS2-1, K-PS2-2

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