Rocket | Hobby Shop

In this science-based game, choose and customize a rocket. Launch your rocket and learn about Newton's Laws.

• Newton's Laws: A short-answer quiz about Newton’s Laws of Motion, including calculations using Newton’s mathematical formula F= MA, involving force, mass, and acceleration.
• Newton's Laws (Master)
• Rocket Graphing: An exercise in charting the course of a rocket in flight using the variables of time, velocity and altitude, followed by short-answer questions requiring observation, recall and critical thinking. 
• Rocket Graphing (Master) 
• Rocket Web Guide: Students can visit the rocket-building activity at The Hobby Shop On-line to complete this worksheet about the parts of a rocket and how rockets work.
• Rocket Web Guide (Master) 
• Straw Rocket: A simple lesson plan for building and testing paper rockets at home or in class. Patterns are included.
• Inquiry With Rockets: A few inquiry-based suggestions for student use of the rocket-building activity at The Hobby Shop On-line, accompanied by some thoughts about assessment.

Standards

• Science and Engineering Practices
  • 5.S.1 The student will use the science and engineering practices, including the processes and skills of scientific inquiry, to develop understandings of science content.
• Physical Science: Forces and Motion
  • 8.P.2 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the effects of forces on the motion and stability of an object.
    • 8.P.2A Motion occurs when there is a change in position of an object with respect to a reference point. The final position of an object is determined by measuring the change in position and direction of the segments along a trip. While the speed of the...
      • 8.P.2A.3 Construct explanations for the relationship between the mass of an object and the concept of inertia (Newton’s First Law of Motion).
      • 8.P.2A.4 Analyze and interpret data to support claims that for every force exerted on an object there is an equal force exerted in the opposite direction (Newton’s Third Law of Motion).
      • 8.P.2A.5 Analyze and interpret data to describe and predict the effects of forces (including gravitational and friction) on the speed and direction of an object.
      • 8.P.2A.6 Use mathematical and computational thinking to generate graphs that represent the motion of an object’s position and speed as a function of time.
• Science and Engineering Practices
  • 8.S.1 The student will use the science and engineering practices, including the processes and skills of scientific inquiry, to develop understandings of science content.
    • 8.S.1A The practices of science and engineering support the development of science concepts, develop the habits of mind that are necessary for scientific thinking, and allow students to engage in science in ways that are similar to those used by scient...
• Interactions and Forces
  • H.P.2 The student will demonstrate an understanding of how the interactions among objects and their subsequent motion can be explained and predicted using the concept of forces.
    • H.P.2B The interactions among objects and their subsequent motion can be explained and predicted by analyzing the forces acting on the objects and applying Newton’s laws of motion.
      • H.P.2B.1 Plan and conduct controlled scientific investigations involving the motion of an object to determine the relationships among the net force on the object, its mass, and its acceleration (Newton’s second law of motion, Fnet = ma) and analy...
      • H.P.2B.3 Use Newton’s Third Law of Motion to construct explanations of everyday phenomena (such as a hammer hitting a nail, the thrust of a rocket engine, the lift of an airplane wing, or a book at rest on a table) and identify the force pairs in...
• 8.MGSR Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • 8.MGSR.3 Graph on a coordinate plane
    • 8.MGSR.3.7 Describe the effect of a series of transformations, including dilations, translations, rotations, and reflections, on two-dimensional figures using coordinates on the coordinate plane
• 8.MGSR Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • 8.GS.MGSR.2 Apply rigid geometric transformations to figures, describing their attributes and symmetries
    • 8.GS.MGSR.2.1 Describe the results of transformations on a given figure using geometric terminology from the definitions of the transformations
• GS.MGSR Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning
  • GS.MGSR.2 Apply rigid geometric transformations to figures, describing their attributes and symmetries
    • GS.MGSR.2.1 Describe the results of transformations on a given figure using geometric terminology from the definitions of the transformations
• A1.PAFR Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • A1.PAFR.4 Reason with parent functions in varying representations to find families of functions that all have similar distinguishing attributes common to the family and use common characteristics to aid in rewriting and identifying linear, linear absol
    • A1.PAFR.4.1 Describe the effect of the transformations 𝑘𝑓(𝑥), 𝑓(𝑥)+𝑘, 𝑓(𝑥+𝑘), 𝑓(𝑥) − 𝑘, 𝑓(𝑥 −𝑘), and combinations o
• A2P.PAFR Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning
  • A2P.PAFR.4 Reason with parent functions to find families of functions that all have similar distinguishing attributes common to the family and use common characteristics to aid in rewriting and identifying functions
    • A2P.PAFR.4.1 Identify the effect on the graph of replacing 𝑓(x) by 𝑘𝑓(𝑥), 𝑓(𝑥)+𝑘, 𝑓(𝑥+𝑘), 𝑓(𝑥) for any real number k including multiple transformations

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