Bottle Rockets

Kids will build their own rockets out of soda bottles and launch them high into the air!

Our SCouts will help your kids make fins and nose cones for their rockets as well as weigh down the tips using play-doh so they fly straight. Kids will be able to customize and decorate their rockets so every rocket is unique.

Our SCouts will make sure that every group has a bottle rocket they are excited to see fly. These rockets really fly high and impress both students and teachers alike.

Our SCouts will explain the physics at work in the rockets. We use a bicycle pump and a special launching apparatus to fill the bottles with air and water. Once launched, Newton's third law takes over: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction! The pressurized air and water exiting the bottles provides the thrust the rockets need to fly.

This is our favorite experiment at Science Outreach and we love bringing it to classrooms! It is so popular with the students that we usually save it as the final experiment of the school year. Kids love making the rockets and then counting down as we launch them to celebrate the end of a great science semester!

Contact us if you'd like to launch Bottle Rockets at your school!

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