Year 7 Bottle Rocket Challenge 

As part of our Forces and Machines unit this term, Year 7 students designed, built, and launched their own bottle rockets to explore key scientific concepts in motion. Using water, air and a bike hand-pump on the oval, students considered thrust, weight, lift and air resistance as they sketched cones for aerodynamics and shaped fins to control direction. The activity was hands-on, creative and highly competitive — congratulations to Noah (29m) winner, and Billy (27m) runner up, for the longest flights! A fantastic, interactive way to see physics fly off the page and into the sky.

Mel Bouma

Secondary Science Teacher

Student Reflections:

This term the Year 7s have been learning about forces and motions. We have been working on making our very own bottle rockets. It's been so much fun. We've used plastic bottles, water and air pressure to create rockets. We are excited to see what happens when we launch them.

Charlotte 

This term in Year 7 we have been focusing on constructing bottle rockets for science. During this project we’ve learnt about Isaac Newton and the discovery about gravity and all of the Year 7’s built their own individual bottle rockets. During the launching of these rockets, we had many successes but also many failures where a few rockets even launched backwards and hit Mrs Solomons on the head! This project has been something really fun and all of the Year 7's have enjoyed it very much! 

Jehu