Unit 5: Energy

Day 3 Rocket Project

Warm up Part 1

FIND: The Reaching Goals Plan

Handout on your desk
COMPLETE: Front page and turn it
into blue bin on table
BE THOUGHTFUL: With your responses
Some suggestions for strategies to reach
goal: limiting side conversations; doing my
work; respecting the right to learn;
cooperating with classmates

TIME: 3 MINUTES
WHEN DONE: Open Notebook to Unit
5 Warm Up Section

Warm up Part 2

IN WARM UP SECTION OF NOTEBOOK:

Answer the following questions
1.

Give an example of a time where you

witnessed work on an object.

2.

What is the difference between kinetic and

potential energy?

3.

What is the difference between energy

transferred and energy transformation?

4.

What does it mean to be energy efficient?

TIME: 8 minutes
WHEN DONE: Find your rocket project handout
at your table

Agenda
Observe
Design
Build
Exit

Rockets

Rockets

Rockets

Ticket

Learning Targets
I can use a model to analyze the
energy of a rocket in flight
I can use a model to calculate
the energy of a rocket in flight

TIMELINE of Rocket Project

E.D.C.R.O
TODAY

EXPLORE: Watch rocket launch and

make observations

TODAY
AND
WEDS

CREATE: Build one or two rockets to

increase the efficiency of your rocket

WEDS
AND FRI
NEXT
WEEK

DESIGN: Work as a design team to figure

out what you want to build

REFINE: Launch rocket and do video

analysis, make adjustments and re-launch
OWN: Presentation of the energy
efficiency of your rocket.

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BE READY: To share out
your company name and
logo
CEO: Introduces Self,
Company Name, and
CRO(s) and CIO

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TURN TO: Back page of handout
and find OBSERVATIONS section
CORRECT: Dimensions for each
test rocket
Rocket 1 = 30 cm (not 22 cm)
Rocket 2 = 25 cm (not 22 cm)
Rocket 3 = 15 cm (not 12 cm)
TIME: 90 seconds
WHEN DONE: Be ready to hear
the mass of each rocket

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LISTEN: For mass of each
rocket
WRITE: Mass for each rocket
TIME: 3 minutes
WHEN DONE: Grab a
clipboard be ready to go
outside to observe rocket

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FOLLOW ALONG: On
document camera
THINK, SHARE, and
WRITE:
What We Know
What We Dont Know
TIME: 4 minutes
WHEN DONE: Write name on

Rocket Project

LISTEN and
WATCH: For
directions on making
a NOSE CONE
TIME: 1 minute

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LISTEN and
WATCH: For
directions on making
a ROCKET BODY
TIME: 2 minutes

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LISTEN and
WATCH: For
directions on making
and placing the FINS
TIME: 2 minutes

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WITH YOUR COMPANY: DISCUSS
and DESIGN rocket 1 and rocket 2
WRITE: Rationale for design
(everyone in group must have
design and rationale)Your group WILL NOT receive
TIME: 14 minutes

supplies until ALL

MEMBERS have DESIGN
and RATIONALE WRITTEN

WHEN DONE: Show Ms. Myriah

Day and receive supplies to start

Rocket Project
SEND: Chief Resource Officer to get
supplies
YOUR GROUP NEEDS:
1 Ruler
2-3 pairs of scissors
1 nose cone and fin TEMPLATE
3 markers
1 Glue Gun (with 3 glue sticks)
2 pieces of construction paper (for
body)

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ALL MEMBERS HELP:
Make Nose Cone(make sure to
color nose cone is a bright color)
Make Fins
CAREFUL:
Make Body
With HOT
Put all pieces together GLUE, it
CAN BURN
Decorate Rocket
you!
TIME: 22 minutes
WHEN DONE: Clean Up area (all
paper scraps) and place finished
rocket in assigned bin

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ALL MEMBERS CLEAN UP:
All scraps on table and floor
Supplies
Scissors
Glue Guns/Glue Sticks
Full sheets of paper = put back
in supply box
ALL OF YOUR ROCKET
MATERIALS:
Put in small BIN
WRITE: Company name and
Class Period on masking tape

TIME: 4 minutes
WHEN DONE: Be ready to

Exit ticket
FIND: YOUR Reaching
Goals Plans
COMPLETE: Reflection
about Class
BE THOUGHTFUL: With
your responses
TIME: 3 MINUTES