Unit 5: Energy

Day 4 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.

Watch the video of Harvey

2.

Answer the questions:

a) Where do you see work?

b) Where do you see kinetic energy?
c) Where do you see potential energy?

TIME: 4 minutes
WHEN DONE: Gather supplies from back
of room

Agenda
Introduce
Build

Companies

Rockets

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

Tape in Work
VIEW: Grade on assignment

Grade for
Energy Reading
and Cornell
Notes

Energy Carousel
and Connection
to Reading

3/4

Questions
about
individual
grades?
Check in with
me during
work time!

WHEN DONE: Tape it into

next available blank page

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

TIMELINE of Rocket Project

E.D.C.R.O
WAS
MON
WEDS
AND
FRI
FRI
NEXT
WEEK

EXPLORE: Watch rocket launch and

make observations
DESIGN: Work as a design team to figure
out what you want to build
CREATE: Build one or two rockets to
increase the efficiency of your rocket
REFINE: Launch rocket and do video
analysis, make adjustments and re-launch
OWN: Presentation of the energy
efficiency of your rocket.

Rocket Project
SEND: Chief Resource officer to
gather supplies
YOUR GROUP NEEDS:
1 wooden dowel (stick)
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)

Rocket Project
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: 40 minutes
WHEN DONE: Clean Up area (all
paper scraps) and grab an iPad and
practice show you how to use it

Rocket Project
ALL MEMBERS CLEAN UP:
All scraps on table and floor
RETURN TO FRONT OF ROOM:
Scissors
Glue Guns/Glue Sticks
Wooden Dowels
THE REST OF YOUR ROCKET
MATERIALS:
Put in small BIN/BOX
WRITE: Company name and Class
Period on BIN/BOX

TIME: 4 minutes
WHEN DONE: Be ready to complete

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