Bottle Rocket Project
Tessa’s Big Daddy: I plan to keep my rocket design simple. I will use foam sheets for my fins. I will use two pieces of foam and glue them together for more stability. For my nose cone I will use cardstock. To add weight, I plan to tape pennies to the inside of the cone, and then I will attach the nose cone using duct tape.
The first step to build this rocket is to gather a 2L bottle, two sheets of thin foam, superglue, a fin cut out, cardstock, pennies, duct tape, and scissors. Glue the two pieces of foam together using super glue. When the glue dries outline four fins on the foam using a sharpie. Cut the fins out and super glue them to the rocket as far down as you can. Next cut a large circle in the cardstock. When you have the circle cut, find the radius of the circle and cut on that line with scissors. Then create a cone shape with the cardstock and tape it. Then tape the few pennies at the tip of the cone. Next tape the cone to bottom of the bottle using duct tape. Make sure the cone is secure. Introduction: The testing variable we chose was the amount of water in the bottle because we wanted to know if it would affect the height. Our question was how does the amount of water affect the distance of the rocket? Our hypothesis was if the amount of water affects the height of the rocket, then we can find the amount of water that will make the rocket go the highest. Procedure: We added water to our rocket before going outside. Then we went out to the launch pad and had two other people help us to connect the rocket. Once it was connected we had the same two people take an angle measure and they recorded the angle that the rocket went its highest. We chose to use a line graph because demonstrates our data in a clear way. We went about collecting this data by testing one amount of water at a time. Conclusion: In relation to our hypothesis, we discovered that the rocket went the highest when we put 1500ml of water in the bottle. The only difficulties we encountered were with one test, so we just re-did the test. When we finished testing, we knew exactly what amount of water would make our rocket go the highest. We would recommend to keep your rocket design simple. That way if gets lost or destroyed it will be easy to repair or re-create. |
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Snow Science Project
Living in Colorado, we are surrounded by snow for multiple months throughout the winter. With that said, it is very important to know the safety behind snow and avalanches. Throughout this project we not only learned about snow safety, but we also learned the role snow and water play in the Western States. Before this project I did not fully understand the weather around snow, and defiantly not the problems surrounding the Colorado river. Although I am not a snow person, I learned to enjoy how the safety behind snow science is very important when enjoying the outdoors in Colorado. Overall I would say I enjoyed the avalanche part of this project the most, and I least enjoyed the research about the western United States.
Click here to view my snow science project. http://demavalanches.weebly.com
Click here to view my snow science project. http://demavalanches.weebly.com
Water Filtration Project
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The purpose of this project was to create a water filter that was designed for a specific area. The filter was supposed to be made of materials that are affordable and easy to collect.