ROCKETS

About 3 weeks ago our class started making rockets. I was really excited because I always wanted to learn about how things fly! When Mr. Noon gave us the packet with all the stuff that we would need to make the rocket I thought that it would be really confusing, but it turned out to be actually really easy. He also told us that we would need to know everything in the manual because once we were done with this project we would be given a test.

The first thing we did was take out a small plastic tube, which would be used to help us build our rocket and it was going to be really helpful when it was time to paint our rocket so we would not have to touch wet paint! Next that we each got a full piece of typing paper and with that we warped around the plastic tube. Then we toke a half sheet of white paper and warped that around the first sheet of white paper. After that it was time to put the gummed tape on which would be the outside of the rocket, first we cut a 45 degree angle at the end of the gummed tape, then we toke a damp sponge and made the back of it wet so it would stick, last we toke the gummed tape and rolled onto over the paper.

Next it was the best part of the whole project.... getting to design my fin and my rocket!

After I was done making the rocket body it was time to make my parachute that would fall out of the rocket when it comes back down to the ground after I had launch it. When we had gotten the packet there was already a parachute in there all we had to do was cut it out and attach the string. After I had did that I had to tie it to the the screw eye which is a little notch that is screwed into the the nose cone! I had to poke holes in each corner of the parachute an tided a 14 inch long string to each one. After that I took all the strings and tied them onto the screw eye, last I took my parachute and stuffed it into the rocket. Another thing that will go inside my rocket is the shock cord, and that is to keep the nose cone attached to the rocket. And all I did to make that was take a small paper rectangle shaped piece of paper and glued the and of the piece of paper to the end of the shock cord.