The students had lots of fun seeing how far air propelled rockets can fly.
If you look really, really carefully you might just see the bubbles.
Unfortunately these didn't give this rocket any extra power that the foot pump didn't already have.
This rocket involves a bicycle pump, a cork, some water, a bottle and a lot of muscle power, phew!
Have a go at this at home (but with adult supervision and a lot of space)!
Luckily "launch control" kept an eye on the rockets so that they didn't shoot straight
at the passing SBB trains!
at the passing SBB trains!
We looked at a variety of ways to create our own air rockets.
Students used large and small PET bottles to pump air into a home-made rocket. We discovered from our high-tech experiments that rockets needed to be light and well made in order to make the most of the air pushing them off the tops of the bottle. The best materials were paper and drinking straws.
Here are some of the finished products. NASA here we come!
Students used large and small PET bottles to pump air into a home-made rocket. We discovered from our high-tech experiments that rockets needed to be light and well made in order to make the most of the air pushing them off the tops of the bottle. The best materials were paper and drinking straws.
Here are some of the finished products. NASA here we come!
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