Learning Goals
Students will be able to analyze one-dimensional motion data using position, displacement, distance, average speed, and average velocity to describe a rocket’s launch and recovery path.
Students will be able to interpret position-time and velocity-time graphs to connect slope and area relationships with changes in motion during rocket flight.
Students will be able to model one-dimensional and two-dimensional rocket motion using vectors, components, and sign conventions to predict flight behavior.
Students will be able to design and analyze a controlled investigation of net force, mass, and acceleration to determine the relationship described by Newton’s second law.
Students will be able to define a system boundary and evaluate momentum before and after a short-duration collision or recoil event to justify whether momentum is conserved.
Students will be able to design, test, and refine a rocket recovery device by using an energy-flow model to explain how gravitational potential and kinetic energy are transformed within constraints.
Students will be able to evaluate measurement uncertainty, model limitations, and anomalous results to revise claims about rocket motion and performance.
Products
Rocket Motion Investigation Notebook
A personal research notebook that documents the student’s motion questions, measurement plan, raw data, graph analysis, force and momentum reasoning, and reflection on uncertainty. It demonstrates individual mastery of the evidence and reasoning needed to predict and explain the rocket system.
Rocket Launch Physics Report and Presentation
A team investigation report and presentation that synthesizes members’ evidence into a shared claim about rocket motion, force, momentum, and energy transformations. It includes method rationale, data visualizations, discussion of anomalies and limitations, and justified design revisions.
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