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3. Fly your rocket 3 times, writing down data each time in the provided table.
4. Calculate the average distance for this rocket
Distance (in feet)
Rocket 1 Flight 1
Rocket 1 Flight 2
Rocket 1 Flight 3
Average flight of Rocket 1:
meters
Rocket 2
1. Brainstorm. What can you do to improve the distance the rocket travels?
What variables can you manipulate that might make the rocket fly farther?
List at least 3 variables here to help you in thinking of your next design:
1)
2)
3)
2. Design your 2nd rocket
3. Describe/ draw your design (especially, how is it different from rocket 1?):
4. Fly your rocket 3 times, writing down data each time in the provided table.
5. Calculate the average distance for this rocket
Distance (in feet)
Rocket 2 Flight 1
Rocket 2 Flight 2
Rocket 2 Flight 3
Average flight of Rocket 2:
meters
Rocket 3
1. Repeat the same steps you went through for rocket 2. You can either
manipulate a different variable this time, or manipulate the same variable
you used in Rocket 2, but in a different way or different amount. (For
example, if you changed mass for rocket 2 by adding more paper, you could
add paper clips to change the mass in a different way for rocket 3. Or if you
added 1
penny to rocket 2, you could add 3 pennies to rocket 3.)
2. Describe/draw your design (especially, how is it different from rocket 1 and
rocket 2?):
3. Fly your rocket 3 times, writing down data each time in the provided table.
4. Calculate the average distance for this rocket
Distance (in feet)
Rocket 3 Flight 1
Rocket 3 Flight 2
Rocket 3 Flight 3
Average flight of Rocket 3:
meters
Analysis Questions:
1. What was your original hypothesis when you were designing rocket 2?
(Example: Changing [this variable] by [doing this] will cause the rocket to fly
farther.)
9. Why is it important that you wrote down/ drew your design for each rocket
and recorded distance data on each before designing the next version?
Conclusion:
Summarize (in at least 3 complete sentences) what you learned from this lab about
the scientific method and doing science: