Week 5 - Rocket flight and living in space

Activity / Demonstration -
-- View the video of a rocket launch and living in space
-- Air pressure and the boiling of water
-- Carbon dioxide in space
-- Air pressure
-- Preparing an astronauts meal
Practical -
-- As per activities

Worksheets / Home Work -
View the video of a rocket launch and living in space
-- Air pressure and the boiling of water
-- Carbon dioxide in space
-- Air pressure
-- Preparing an astronauts meal

Concepts to be learned -
-- Air pressure is significant and all around us here on Earth.
-- The importance of air pressure to the boiling point of water.
-- Understand some of the difficulties of living in space.

week 6 -8 Construction of a rocket or propeller plane.

Activity / Demonstration -
-- Building a rocket
-- Building a rocket glider
Practical -
-- As per activities

Worksheets / Home Work -
-- Drag and how it can be reduced.
-- Acceleration and force
-- Velocity time graphs

Concepts to be learned -
-- Streamlining a high speed vehicle to reduce drag.
-- The different form of drag and how they can be reduced.
-- Interpreting distance time graphs and velocity time graphs.
-- Recognising that there is a relationship between deceleration, acceleration and force applied.
-- Recognise from a speed time graph when a force is applied to an object.