In this activity, students investigate the effect that fins have on rocket flight. Students construct two paper rockets that they can launch themselves by blowing through a straw. One "strawket" has wings and the other has fins. Students observe how these two control surfaces affect the flight of their strawkets. Students discover how difficult control of rocket flight is and what factors can affect it.

Concepts

drag, engineering, fins, stem

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Additional Tags

flight control, rocket flight, strawket, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, rocket, rocketry

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)