Rocketry Research

Directions: 

• Use the links under each question to do your research. 

• Take notes in your science notebook.

• We will be spending two days researching to answer question #1, then two days to answer question #2. 

Question #1: What helps an object achieve flight? 

To help answer that question, here are links to websites related to the Newton's Three Laws of Motion:

• Three Laws of Motion on Brainpop 

• Forces on Brainpop 

• I Didn't Know That: How Rockets Work on National Geographic 

• Brainpop on Flight

• Liftoff on European Space Agency Kids 

• Space Flight on Brainpop 

• Smithsonian Space Museum:

  • Forces of Flight

  • Aerodynamics

  • Propulsion

  • Flight Dynamics

Question #2: What makes an object fall back to the ground?

• Trueflix “Gravity” 

  • username: hcote 

  • pw: flix

• Design Squad Nation (PBS) Animation: What is Gravity/Drag? 

• Gravity on Brainpop 

• Smithsonian Space Museum: Gravity and Air