Project Challenge #2: How does the nose cone affect a rocket's flight path?
Meet your challenge:
Watch the video below, and then watch the demonstration. Then, study the graph to the right-what is it trying to tell you?
Do the following:
Watch the video below, and then watch the demonstration. Then, study the graph to the right-what is it trying to tell you?
Do the following:
- Discuss with your team how the information in the graph at right and what happened in the videos could be connected. Focus on the nose cone of the rocket. Come up with a preliminary answer to the question at the top of this page as a team.
- Fill in the "Know/Need to Know" chart shared with you in Google Docs, keeping in mind the question at the top of this page. Look at what everyone is writing, and decide which "need to knows" are going to help you answer your question.
- Develop a "Need to Do" list in a new Google Doc, and share it with your team members. Determine what you need to do as far as: 1) Designing your rocket, and 2) Explaining the science and math behind your rocket design. Go do some research on all of your "need to dos."
- After everyone is done with their research, you can enter that into a Google Doc outside of class. Then, everyone needs to determine what the final design will be for your water bottle rocket, and EVERYONE in the team must build one the EXACT same way. This plan and your research must be shared with Mrs. E ([email protected]) in Google Docs by Thursday, 6/16 by 9 A.M. tomorrow morning! Also, bring in 2-liter bottles to build your rocket.
- After reviewing any feedback left for you by Mrs. E, spend the first hour researching and refining your rocket, and then build it. Test launch it if possible Thursday.
- Go home and make any modifications needed to your rocket, and bring it back on Wednesday, 6/21, ready to test.
- Build your rocket, and bring it to class on Wednesday.