This week at Brigshaw STEM Club we were given lots of plastic bottles, some foot pumps, some water and some string. We were then told we had to make rockets and get them as high into the sky as possible.
Hmm...well, we got it pretty quickly that we had to put the water into the bottles and pump them up with air, but it was easier said than done. We had to limit our water and most of it was lost when the bottles failed to take off and exploded onto the ground. The string also got a bit tangled because we practically had enough each to wrap round the whole school.
But after about an hour we had made some really successful models, and despite the extremely random paths they took into the air , they got really high (but not quite as high as the fireworks we saw in the background!). Next week we are making rockets that will run on gunpowder, which will probably be very unpredictable! :P
6 comments:
Very fun activity but dangerous haha we all got soaked but it was still great fun maybe we could make rockets with venegar and bicarbonate of soda - just a thought!
yeah I think that would be a great idea but then our clothes would all smell of vinegar and it might look like it had been snowing!!!
That was well fun exept from getting wet
about water and alkaselsa
very fun activity!! I got a bit wet but it was worth it!!
We should try it with fizzy pop instead of water!!!
lol evie n charlotte
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