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3-2-1 Liftoff! #04 Simple Rocket Science
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3-2-1 Liftoff! #04 Simple Rocket Science

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Grade Level: K-4

Body: Earth

Mission: Human Spaceflight (Earth)

Science Education Standards: National Science Education Standards
Science as Inquiry:

  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
  • Understandings about scientific inquiry
  • Position and motion of objects
Science and Technology:
  • Abilities of technological design
  • Understanding about science and technology
History and Nature of Science
  • Science as a human endeavour

Short Description: Students perform a simple science experiment to show how a rocket works and to demonstrate Newton's Third Law of Motion.

Source: NASA


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