In this activity, students investigate the motion of a rocket using a spreadsheet with graphs of motion included. They adjust variables and investigate how height and speed are affected.
By the end of this activity, students should be able to:
- investigate at least one variable that affects the height reached by a rocket
- gradually change that variable and describe how motion is affected by that change
- interpret graphs to describe what is happening to the height and speed of a rocket during each stage of its flight.
Download the Word file (see link below) for:
- introduction/background notes
- what you need
- what to do
- student record sheet.
Download the Rocket graphs of motion Excel spreadsheet (see link below).