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 every thing 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.

After I was done making the rocket body it was time to make my parachute that would fall out of the rocket when it come back down to the ground after I had launched it. When we had gotten the packet there was all 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. After that I stuffed the parachute into the rocket and attached the nose cone onto the top of the rocket.

After my rocket was made and my parachute was done it was time to paint my rocket . This was my favorite part of making the rocket because i love art :). My rocket has white and light pink stripes. And my fins are neon yellow and purple stripes! After my rocket and fins were painted it was time to attach my find to the rocket. This was kinda hard because the fins had to be spaced evenly. Mine ended up not be spaced evenly. But it was not that bad, it might not fly straight though. The last step that was probably the hardest was assembling the engine, and what you would do was have a small card board tube, two card board rings things and a small metal piece that would hold onto the engine. First you would glue the metal piece onto the card board tube then put one of the card board rings on one end of the tube and one on the other end . After you are done assembling the rocket engine you put it into the back end of the rocket and when you are ready to put in the engine that is what you will use! Those are all the steps I used to make my rocket! :)