Rocket Testing - Round 1

During this Term the Year 3 and 4 children have been learning all about flight. We have been experimenting and learning about the four forces of flight; THRUST, LIFT, WEIGHT and DRAG. To finish our unit of learning we designed our own rockets out of a plastic bottle. The plastic bottles fit perfectly on a home made rocket launcher which creates the THRUST for the rockets.

Last Friday we fired our rockets for the first time in a Scientific Fair Test. Rosie's went so far that it is still stuck 3 quarters of the way up a huge Norfolk Pine on Muritai Road.   We measured it went 52 metres, but because it curved in the air and headed toward the Senior School, it could have gone a lot further if it went straight.  CHECK OUT OUR MOVIE CLIPS

Next we are going to modify our rockets to try to make them fly further and more aerodynamically.