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Paper Rocket Lab 7th Grade Science

Goal:

Design a rocket that will fly the farthest!

Procedure & Data:

Rocket 1
1. Design a rocket
2. Describe/ draw your design:

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)

Distance (in meters)

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

Distance (in meters)

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)

Distance (in meters)

Rocket 3 Flight 1
Rocket 3 Flight 2
Rocket 3 Flight 3
Average flight of Rocket 3:

meters

Analyze Your Results:

Make a Bar Graph of the 3 flights for each of the 3 rockets

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.)

2. Was your hypothesis confirmed or not?

3. Did you have a new or altered hypothesis when you designed rocket 3?
4. Why did or didnt your hypothesis change after collecting data on rocket 2?
5. Which of your rockets flew the farthest?
6. Why do you think this rocket went farther than the others?
7. If you could design 2 more rockets, what variables would you want to
manipulate and how?
8. Why do you think that would get your 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: