Rocket Project
Purpose/Rationale: Our Purpose is to create a rocket. We want to learn several different skills throughout this project. Firstly, and most prominently we would like to learn about rocket propulsion and controlling explosions to create enough force to launch a rocket higher than Esteban and Omeyer’s group. Secondly we would like to learn some video documentation and editing as we will be documenting our entire process: creation, planning, mistakes, tests, and finally, launches. We want to learn about rocket propulsion and aerodynamics and different forces centred around rocketry purely out of interest but the skills we will develop in the video making will be very useful skills. The world is becoming less and less attentive and videos are becoming more and more popular due to the limited attention required when watching a video. For these reasons, learning about cinematography and video production is very relevant in the advancing world.
Connections: Human Ingenuity: Because of the contest nature of our project, we will be pushing both ourselves, and the other group to be creative, think of new ideas to “push the envelope” so to speak.
• Human Ingenuity – creative or artistic exploration, designing something new or re-designing something to improve it
Audience: Our peers, youtube, possibly an elementary school.
Estimated Timeline: Week 1-3: Planning and Research, Acquiring Materials
Week 3: Building of the rocket
Week 4: Presentation
Resources:
- Web
- Books
- Chemistry Teachers
- King of Random (Youtube, possible facetime?)
- Testing
Process Log and Reflections: We will record it using a camera, kind of like a vlog for our blogs. We will upload short videos about our progress every time we make progress. At the end of the project, as the reflection, we will put together a video outlining what we learned and how we built our rocket.
Peer Review: For our peer reviews, we will be meeting up with Esteban and Omeyer at about half way through the project process. We will be discussing our progress, how much more work we have to do, and we will be projecting our probable presentation dates, thus creating a deadline which will keep us on track and focussed on the task.
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