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Rocket Car Add-On Program- (5th – 8th graders)
Min./ Max. Size of Group Required: 20/40 students
Amount of Time Required: 1 - 1 ½ Hours
$4.50 additional per student
Create your vary-own air driven Rocket Car. Learn what makes your Rocket Car speed across the floor along a tape measure as you apply Sir Isaac Newton’s “Three Laws of Motion” while building the ultimate car with Styrofoam, Straws and a Balloon to go the distance!”
Students will…
• C.4.2 Use the science content being learned to ask questions, plan investigations, make observations, make predictions, and offer explanations
• C.4.7 Support their conclusions with logical arguments
• C.4.8 Ask additional questions that might help focus or further an investigation.
• D.4.6 Observe and describe physical events in objects at rest or in motion
• B.4.2 Identify the parts of a system and explain how the parts working together allow the system to do things the individual parts are unable to do alone.
• B.4.3 Describe the various reasons systems may fail.
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• D.8.5 Explain the motion of objects by describing the forces acting on them.
• B.8.1 Compare and contrast the function of technological systems
• B.8.2 Analyze various systems and identify the ways in which they are controlled to produce a desired outcome
• B.8.3 Identify potential sources of failure in a system.
• C.8.11 Raise further questions which still need to be answered.
• D.8.3 Determine measurement directly using standard units
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