Straw Rockets Teacher’s Guide

Available now in both print and free digital download!

Straw rockets might be an introductory rocket activity, but this guide will help you get a lot of educational mileage out of them! With these fun activities, students grasp a variety of subjects including force and motion, thrust, center of gravity, prediction, measurements, and tons more.

The Straw Rockets Teacher’s Guide contains ITEEA standards, CCSS Math, and NGSS addressed; teacher and student instructions for a variety of math, science, and technology activities; pretests and posttests; resource pages; and links to video resources. Contains separate activities for middle school and high school students as well as links to career information and applications of the 4Cs (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity).

Equipment and materials needed to complete guide activities include the Straw Rockets – Getting Started Package as well as other tools and materials. Items needed for all activities are listed in the teacher guide.