Exploring the Solar System: Stomp Rockets

TYPE: Short Activities
AUDIENCE: Ages 7 - Adult
TOPIC: Engineering and Technology
In this activity, learners will build and launch their own air rockets to help imagine the challenges and triumphs of engineering spacecraft.
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In "Exploring the Solar System: Stomp Rockets," participants learn about how some rockets carry science tools—not scientists—into space, and how a special kind of rocket called "sounding rockets" can be used for quick, low-flying scientific missions into space. Participants will build and launch their own air rockets to help imagine the challenges and triumphs of engineering spacecraft and launching them into a specific region of the space above our planet.

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  • A family of three crafts their rockets out of paper, stickers and tape
  • Hands cutting and taping paper to make a rocket
  • Family showing a newly made paper rocket
  • Learner and facilitator launch paper rocket at a poster
  • A learner shows the camera a paper rocket she made
  • A family of three crafts their rockets out of paper, stickers and tape
  • Hands cutting and taping paper to make a rocket
  • Family showing a newly made paper rocket
  • Learner and facilitator launch paper rocket at a poster
  • A learner shows the camera a paper rocket she made

DESCRIPTION

In "Exploring the Solar System: Stomp Rockets," participants learn about how some rockets carry science tools—not scientists—into space, and how a special kind of rocket called "sounding rockets" can be used for quick, low-flying scientific missions into space. Participants will build and launch their own air rockets to help imagine the challenges and triumphs of engineering spacecraft and launching them into a specific region of the space above our planet.

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OBJECTIVES

LEARNING GOALS

  • • Some rockets carry science tools—not scientists—into space!

    • Sounding rockets take quick, low-flying trips into space.

    • Scientists use many different kinds of spacecraft to make new discoveries.

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TYPE:
Educational Resources
AUDIENCE:
Ages 7 - Adult
LANGUAGES:
English Spanish
ADDITIONAL TOPICS: Earth and Space Science Climate and Weather Atmosphere Geology Astronomy Earth, Moon and Sun Solar System Engineering and Technology Engineering Technology
KIT: Explore Science: Earth & space logo Browse kit
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Credits

YEAR CREATED
2018
PROJECT
OWNING INSTITUTION

The Science Museum of Minnesota

FUNDING

This material is based upon work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award number NNX16AC67A. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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