[Catalist] STEM PROJECT CURRICULUM MODULE: ³IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE!²

[Kim FLINTOFF]

On this same topic ­ I met Cran Middlecoat in Brisbane this past week ­ his
company is ³It¹s Rocket Science <http://www.itsrocketscience.com.au/> ² and
they have a comprehensive incursionŠ

Kim Flintoff 
(sometime NSFW)

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From:  Tim Keely <T.Keely at curtin.edu.au>
Date:  Tuesday, 19 September 2017 at 08:54
To:  "catalist at lists.stawa.net" <catalist at lists.stawa.net>
Cc:  Mark HACKLING <m.hackling at ecu.edu.au>
Subject:  Re: [Catalist]  STEM PROJECT CURRICULUM MODULE: ³IT IS ROCKET
SCIENCE!²

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, etcŠ
 
Any interest?
 
Tim
 

From: Catalist [mailto:catalist-bounces at lists.stawa.net] On Behalf Of
Michael McGarry
Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2017 6:32 AM
To: catalist at lists.stawa.net
Cc: Mark HACKLING <m.hackling at ecu.edu.au>
Subject: [Catalist] STEM PROJECT CURRICULUM MODULE: ³IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE!²
 
STEM PROJECT CURRICULUM MODULE: ³IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE!²
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 ³Newton¹s Three Laws of Motion², which can
be free downloaded from my Physical Sciences webpage at the ASTA MOODLE URL
1: http://moodle.asta.edu.au
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/V81oBDhw2b5rIM?domain=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://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/5vY4BzsnOAXKs1?domain=makezine.com> . I
would not use Œprecious¹ class teaching/learning time to put the E in STEM.
I would use my school¹s science department funds to purchase ten Aquapod
water rocket launchers from URL 3:
https://www.thegrommet.com/aquapod-aquapod-bottle-launcher
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/gn9mBKhKd6gQhE?domain=thegrommet.com> .
Grommet video URL 4:
https://www.thegrommet.com/431-aquapod-2-liter-bottle-rocket-launcher
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/oDLWBNUvlrY7Cb?domain=thegrommet.com> .
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-r
ocket/ 
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AG1ZB0fZKgGQCA?domain=scientificamerican.
com> . 
URL 6: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zgn82hv/revision/7
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/38L3B9hpxblKFl?domain=bbc.co.uk>
In my proposed AUS PS10 SU curriculum module ³IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE!² I would
require my students to draw, label, and explain, using free body/force
diagrams each stage in the water rocket¹s flight path.
I would ask, in my ³rocket science² curriculum module, all my Year 10
science students to try to explain water rocket propulsion, firstly by
logically applying Newton¹s 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 Œcorrectness¹ of
their own free body/force diagrams by accessing, via my PS10 interactive PDF
curriculum module, the Œin-module¹ hyperlinked URL¹s like these:
URL 7: https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/embeds/25-rocket-launch-simulation
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/q0YwBJT8rmeOhA?domain=sciencelearn.org.nz
> 
URL 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_0TnSuswuU
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/44GqBlUlM1zXIN?domain=youtube.com>
URL 9: 
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/i-didnt-know-that/idkt-how-rockets
-work 
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/drxzBLf23N6dCY?domain=video.nationalgeogr
aphic.com> 
URL 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpWCOVNWUyo
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Db1pB2hqnldphZ?domain=youtube.com>
URL 11: 
https://www.kentshillphysics.net/physics-with-rockets/rockets-and-forces/
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/87W8BmtxzEkgtN?domain=kentshillphysics.ne
t> 
URL 12: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/rocket.html
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Qv1bBAsvZKn3C3?domain=hyperphysics.phy-as
tr.gsu.edu> 
URL 13: 
https://www.quora.com/How-do-rockets-accelerate-in-space-or-vacuum-in-the-ab
sence-of-any-material-to-provide-them-the-required-reaction-force
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xMnXBgiRYm7GhN?domain=quora.com>
URL 14: http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/teach_res/hsp/u5/t5_rockets.pdf
<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/M41aBvUv6EeLCE?domain=physics.usyd.edu.au
> 
Finally, I would provide, as necessary, the instructional scaffolding using
direct teaching to display and Œwork¹ through my ³rocket science² 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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