More on water (pop bottle) rockets
Looking at the stats for this blog, it seems that lots of people are interested in pop-bottle water rockets. Heck, who wouldn’t be! Cheap, easy, safe (relatively) and … FUN! So I did a little Googling to find more resources for you. Here’s a great quote I found on a NASA website devoted to the water rocket!
"Two-Liter Pop Bottle Rockets may well be the GREATEST PHYSICAL SCIENCE TEACHING TOOL EVER CREATED!!" Middle grades students can manipulate and control variables, see their hypotheses verified or refuted, and graph their findings. High school students experience the nature of science at its best. They can document their abilities with the following concepts: inertia, gravity, air resistance, Newton’s laws of motion, acceleration, relationships between work and energy or impulse and momentum, projectile motion, freefall calculations, internal and external ballistics, and the practice of true engineering.
Gotta love that! Now beyond the NASA website (which looks great for teachers and homeschoolers), I found one from St. Mary’s University here in Canada (this is where the pics are from) and a page by Dave Johnson, recently updated, that has some great resources as well.
This weekend is Victoria Day Weekend in Canada (the unofficial start of summer) and Memorial Day in the States (same, only different 
). Looks like a little pre-planning could let you end your picnic with a little rocket launch to wrap up the day.
Hmm, maybe that’s why I’ve been drinking so much pop lately … I’m making sure I have supplies to build water rockets, yeah that’s it.
Right.
Tags: water rockets, pop bottle rockets, rocket experiments, experiments with kids, home experiments
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