Making Rockets:

Making Rockets: MIX DRY


Flying model rockets is a relatively safe and inexpensive way for students to learn the basics of forces and the response of a vehicle to external forces. A model rocket is subjected to four forces in flight; weight, thrust, and the aerodynamic forces, lift and drag. There are many different types of model rockets. The first and simplest type of rocket that a student encounters is the compressed air, or stomp rocket. The air rocket system consists of two main parts, the launcher and the rocket.


http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/rktstomp.html
http://makezine.com/projects/make-15/compressed-air-rocket/
http://makezine.com/projects/make-compressed-air-rockets-kit/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1428780902/launch-something-air-rocket-toys-from-airrocketwor

Altitude Tracking  
TOPIC: Altitude tracking
OBJECTIVE:  To use geometry to find the altitude of model rockets
DESCRIPTION: In this activity, students construct simple altitude tracking devices that are used to measure the angle a rocket reaches above ground, as seen from a remote tracking site. The angle is drawn on a graph and the altitude is read from a scale.
EDITED BY: Roger Storm, NASA Glenn Research Center
http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/TRCRocket/altitude_tracking2.html
http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/rkthowhi.html


How to Measure Model Rocket Altitude
C.H. Seman
Sitting before you is a model rocket of your very own design. Everything from the rocket fuselage to the parachute was designed by you and you couldn't be prouder. The custom paint job turned out better than expected and the shining exterior brings a tear to the eye. To quote Keats, "a thing of beauty is a joy forever." The finished rocket is a wonderful testament to your prowess as a model rocket enthusiast.

http://www.hobbizine.com/rocketaltitude.html

The sun king and Rockets

The Sun King http://journeythroughtheuniverse.org/downloads/Content/Voyage_G58_L3.pdf

PAPER ROCKETS

Objective:

To design, construct, and fly paper rockets that will travel the greatest distance possible across a floor model of the solar system.

Description:
In this activity, students construct small flying rockets out of paper and propel them by blowing air through a straw.

• http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/Paper_Rockets.pdf 
• http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/153413main_Rockets_3_2_1_Puff.pdf
• http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/TRCRocket/paper_rocket.html

Solar System Scale  http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/ 


This page shows a scale model of the solar system, shrunken down to the point where the Sun, normally more than eight hundred thousand miles across, is the size you see it here. The planets are shown in corresponding scale.


http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/


NASAThis lesson allows students to visualize the comparative sizes and distances of solar system bodies by making solar system objects to scale using common objects, walking off the distances between planets and participating in a Web-based Sun/Earth scale model activity


http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/educ/docs/3-stardst-ch03.pdf

Craters

In this activity, your students will be exploring their ideas about what factors influence cratering. Your main task is to guide them as they design a formal test of a particular factor and look for patterns in their results. Your focus should be on the explanations of the results that your students are getting rather than on "right" answers that you expect them to get.

http://deepimpact.umd.edu/educ/mod_DesigningCraters/3design/tg_factors.pdf
 
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/docs/Impact_Craters_Holes_508FC1.pdf

http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/agso/images/copernicus-size.jpg

Lunar phases

Yes it's only a paper moon......

The Moon Finder consists of two plates--a moon phases plate and a local horizon plate. First, make a plate that shows a God's-eye view of the moon in orbit around the earth, which is centered on the plate.  Place the sun on the perimeter of the plate and label the phases accordingly.  http://analyzer.depaul.edu/paperplate/activities.htm 

If possible affix images of the moon that show the moon in its respective phases.  One technique for planetarians is to cut out pictures from the lunar calendars of previous years that have been distributed courtesy of Evans and Sutherland.

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/moonphases.html

This lesson is one of many grade K-12 lessons developed to bring the Voyage experience to ... Students will determine the actual distance to the Sun and the Moon ... How can we use models to measure the relative distances between the Sun ..... fly at the speed of a commercial jet plane to the Sun, it would take 17.5 years.

http://journeythroughtheuniverse.org/downloads/Content/Voyage_G58_L3.pdf