2-launching and flying

(8.) Summarize and model how a chemical rocket works.

(9.) Use the engineering design process to build and test model rockets.

(10.) Solve "two-stage rocket" problems by calculating the maximum height of the rocket and the total time the rocket is in the air.

(11.) Summarize and apply Bernoulli's principle to the concept of flight.

(12.) Describe how four forces (lift, weight, thrust, drag) act on airplanes during flight.

(13.) Explain the difference in how jet engines create thrust compared to propeller engines.

(14.) Use the engineering process to build and test model airplanes.

(15.) Add vectors using a head-to-tail addition method and a scaled vector addition diagram and be able to identify the magnitude and direction of the resultant.

(16.) Use the Pythagorean theorem to determine the resultant direction.

(17.) Calculate the drop zone of a package released from a moving airplane.

(18.) Learn how to pilot a remote controlled airplane, helicopter or drone in order to complete various challenges.

Concept Builder 7: Head to Tail Vector Addition

Concept Builder 8: Vector Addition

Quiz 7

• Two Stage Rocket (interactive)

• PBS Space Dangers (video)

• PBS: Challenge of Flight

• Scientific American:  Why No One Can Explain Why Airplanes Stay in the Air

• (NASA) Four Forces of Flight

• (Animation) The Plane and the Package

• (Animation) The Plane and the Wind

• (Interactive) Vector Addition

• (Simulation) Air Dropping from a Plane

• (Online game) Name that Vector

• (Online game) Vector Guessing

• Concept Checker: Vector Addition

• Challenge of Flight

• Watch the film "October Sky."

• Create a google doc and share with your instructor with these criteria:

  • • student name, title of clip, link to the episode, assignment identity (Abstract 1).

    • there are many, many "lessons"  or "messages" from the film, but select the one that you found most compelling i.e. made you think or reflect.  Discuss how the message was presented in the movie and then connect it to yourself.  For example: my lesson the scene in which Homer is heading down into the mine as he's looking at the sky; the lesson is to not focus on where you're at now, but where you want to be or end up.

    • 200-220 words maximum with no grammar/spelling/punctuation problems.