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OBJECTIVE STUDENTS WILL SUMMARIZE NEWTON’S LAWS AND DRAW PICTURES THAT REPRESENTS THE LAW AS AN EXAMPLE

Do NowHave on desk - Newton’s Laws

graphic organizer & Mathematics of Physics

Journal Question – How do you think we can use rockets to show all of Newton’s Laws?

NEWTON’S LAWS

We will use the Links on Learn to fill in our Newton’s Laws Graphic

Organizer1st Use the link Newton’s Laws of

Motion for Notetaking –

After summarizing from your reading, watch the video and add to your notetaker.

DOWNLOAD BOTTLE ROCKETS AND NEWTON’S LAWS OF MOTION

Read each of Newton’s Laws and the paragraph about how that law would apply to rockets.

Draw a picture of how the rockets would apply to each of Newton’s Laws

Be sure to include force arrows and indicate velocity and acceleration

SAFETY AND PROCEDURES

RolesReader – reads to groupSummarizers (2) – summarizes what reader readsRecorder – writes what summarizers summarize

PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED

This experiment has three separate problems to be solved; stability, velocity and altitude, and recovery.

Stability – getting the rockets to fly straight instead of flipping over and over

Velocity & Altitude – getting maximum velocity and altitude

Recovery – safely recovering the rocket without damage

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS

The class will be broken into three teams. Each team will contain three divisions. The three divisions of the team will work together to generate a final rocket design that incorporates each division’s specialty.

Each team will present their rocket to the other two teams in a final competition.

The rockets will be judged in three areas: 1) Stability, 2) Velocity, 3) Ease of Recovery

TEAM ORGANIZATION

Assign roles to each team member: Timer, Recorder, Rocket PR (pump and run), and Altitude Tracker.

Develop hypotheses and write them down

Identify and list the variablesReview and summarize the

launch procedures