Using shapes to make air rockets

Shapes are amazing.

Teacher showed us how we can roll a rectangle to make a cylinder,

how we can fold and chop a rectangle to make a square or diamond and triangles,

how we can roll a circle to make a cone.

Armed with this knowledge we set about making air rockets.

Teacher had made the cylinders for us, because that is a slow job, but we stuck on the triangular fins, and made and stuck on the nose cones.  We also decorated our rockets.  We will fly them outside when the weather improves a little.

Making and flying foam rockets

We made our own foam rockets.

These are so much fun.

We used insulation for pipes for the rocket cylinder and we used squares of card to make the triangular fins.  Teacher helped us with the duct tape so our rockets are really strong.

These rockets fly when we stretch the elastic backwards and then let go.

We had a knock out league in the corridor and Jakub was the class champion.  His rocket flies really well (so does Adam's), and went the furthest each time.

Making straw rockets

We are starting to talk about space.

Today we made our own straw rockets.

This is quite easy to do.

All you need is a half of an A4 sheet of paper, some sticky tape and a straw.  We also used some rocket tops to make our rockets look really cool.

 Can you figure out how we made them?

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