Village of Barboursville Elementary TAG
January 12, 2005
The class will make straw rockets
and launch them with LEGO pneumatics.
The angle will be changed.
We are trying to discover which angle would be best for the longest distance.
Each student will use a straw and tape or clay.
Using a protractor we can set the angle for each set of trials.
Though only one rocket goes at one time,
two can be set up.
The air tank is filled by 20 pushes of the cylinder.
Then the switch is moved towards the side that is next.
After figuring out what makes a good rocket,
each students launched their rocket.
After each round of trials the distances are measured, averaged, and
recorded.