Astronomy Unit Part 4 Rocketry

This unit includes 9 lessons of about 50 minutes, and 20 page work bundle that has students fill-in critical notes, conduct activities including building and launching soda bottle rockets, interpret graphs, includes important video links, and includes built-in assessments. The work bundle chronologically follows the detailed slideshow for an amazing learning experience. A 20 question quiz game concludes the learning for a great review and assessment. A writable .pdf of the work bundle and answer keys are provided. Everything is provided to run an amazing unit of science.

The PowerPoint roadmap then begins describing how the students are going to build water rockets that will actually fly and will need to bring in two standard soda bottles (Polar Cola bottles work the best but standard 20, 0z or 2 liter will work) The PowerPoint describes how the soda bottle rocket will have some similarities to regular rockets. The water rockets will have a nozzle, should rotate, will have a nosecone to limit drag and increase aerodynamics. A link to a water rocket building website is provided. The space shuttle program is then highlighted and all of the shuttles described. Links to HD videos of take-off and landing are provided. Shuttle disaster of Columbia and Challenger is addressed. The ISS is introduced. Issac Newton and Laws of Motion are quickly covered and related to rocketry. Thrust, Lift, Drag, and weight and resistance are described. Instructions for how to build the water rocket, parts of the rocket, and link to purchase launcher if you don't have one are provided. Students really enjoy this PowerPoint but love the building and launching the rockets. I have the students create a poster that is presented before launch.

This PowerPoint includes critical notes (Red Slides), exciting visuals, challenge questions, activities with directions and more. Text is usually placed at the top of the slide so it can be read from all angles of a classroom. Color coded slides, as well as a shade technique is used to increase student focus and allows the teacher to control the pace of the lesson. These PowerPoints are meant to be interactive as possible and ask many questions, provides built in review opportunities, explains directions to activities, and much more. Transition effects are never used.

This is a fantastic unit, especially if you plan on building water rockets and launching with your class. A link is provided if you want to purchase a water rocket launcher, and link for instructions on to build on. 

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