[Catalist] STEM PROJECT CURRICULUM MODULE: “IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE!”

[Tim Keely]

Very thorough!    Thanks Michael

On another angle,  it has long been my dream to establish an annual rocket competition, where students can bring their rockets in for an afternoon of launches, highest, longest, most accurate, most artistic, etc…

Any interest?

Tim

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STEM PROJECT CURRICULUM MODULE: “IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE!”
Greetings Science Colleagues,
Thanks go to Leanne Brown, Tim Keely and Kim Flintoff for alerting me, on CATALIST, to a potential STEM Project Interactive PDF curriculum module on Rocket Science.
If I were going to produce a STEM Project Interactive PDF curriculum module on Rocket Science, I would use the same curriculum/instructional design as my AUS PS10 SU STRAND MODULE 2 on “Newton’s Three Laws of Motion”, which can be free downloaded from my Physical Sciences webpage at the ASTA MOODLE URL 1: http://moodle.asta.edu.au<http://moodle.asta.edu.au>.
To put the E in STEM, I would try, without success, to have my secondary physics student practical groups, spend home-time, to construct their water bottle rocket launchers like those at URL 2: https://makezine.com/projects/water-rocket-launcher/<https://makezine.com/projects/water-rocket-launcher/>. I would not use ‘precious’ class teaching/learning time to put the E in STEM.
I would use my school’s science department funds to purchase ten Aquapod water rocket launchers from URL 3: https://www.thegrommet.com/aquapod-aquapod-bottle-launcher<https://www.thegrommet.com/aquapod-aquapod-bottle-launcher>.
Grommet video URL 4: https://www.thegrommet.com/431-aquapod-2-liter-bottle-rocket-launcher<https://www.thegrommet.com/431-aquapod-2-liter-bottle-rocket-launcher>.
Prior to using the water rocket launchers, I would set up/use a demonstration balloon rocket from wall to wall across my school science laboratory.
URL 5: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/under-pressure-launch-a-balloon-rocket/<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/under-pressure-launch-a-balloon-rocket/>.
URL 6: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zgn82hv/revision/7<http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zgn82hv/revision/7>
In my proposed AUS PS10 SU curriculum module “IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE!” I would require my students to draw, label, and explain, using free body/force diagrams each stage in the water rocket’s flight path.
I would ask, in my “rocket science” curriculum module, all my Year 10 science students to try to explain water rocket propulsion, firstly by logically applying Newton’s Third Law of Motion and then, secondly by applying the mathematics of Conservation of Momentum.
After my Year 10 secondary physics students have completed their required free body/force diagrams, I would have them self-check the ‘correctness’ of their own free body/force diagrams by accessing, via my PS10 interactive PDF curriculum module, the ‘in-module’ hyperlinked URL’s like these:
URL 7: https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/embeds/25-rocket-launch-simulation<https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/embeds/25-rocket-launch-simulation>
URL 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_0TnSuswuU<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_0TnSuswuU>
URL 9: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/i-didnt-know-that/idkt-how-rockets-work<http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/i-didnt-know-that/idkt-how-rockets-work>
URL 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpWCOVNWUyo<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpWCOVNWUyo>
URL 11: https://www.kentshillphysics.net/physics-with-rockets/rockets-and-forces/<https://www.kentshillphysics.net/physics-with-rockets/rockets-and-forces/>
URL 12: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/rocket.html<http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/rocket.html>
URL 13: https://www.quora.com/How-do-rockets-accelerate-in-space-or-vacuum-in-the-absence-of-any-material-to-provide-them-the-required-reaction-force<https://www.quora.com/How-do-rockets-accelerate-in-space-or-vacuum-in-the-absence-of-any-material-to-provide-them-the-required-reaction-force>
URL 14: http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/teach_res/hsp/u5/t5_rockets.pdf<http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/teach_res/hsp/u5/t5_rockets.pdf>
Finally, I would provide, as necessary, the instructional scaffolding using direct teaching to display and ‘work’ through my “rocket science” curriculum module using a computer, data projector, and interactive white board (IWB) so that all my Year 10 students are given the opportunity to understand and logically apply the relevant physics concepts.
Unfortunately, I no longer have access to the fully interacting and functional software programs and the required sit-down time at a computer to produce a proposed interactive PDF AUS Year 10 STEM curriculum module on Rocket Science.
Best Wishes,
Michael John McGarry
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