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Subject:
Science (9 - 12)
Title:
Using Heavy Lifting to Demonstrate How Conventional Thinking has Changed Over Time
Description:
In this lesson, students construct balloon-powered rockets to launch the greatest payload possible to the classroom ceiling. Student teams receive identical parts to build rockets. Then the teams compete to launch the greatest number of paper clips to space (the ceiling). By utilizing this lesson, the students begin to understand that the scientific progress achieved is not a static process but a fluid one that has developed and changed overtime. They also begin to realize that scientific advancement has incorporated a variety of scientists throughout history and time periods. This lesson was created as part of the 2016 NASA STEM Standards of Practice Project, a collaboration between the Alabama State Department of Education and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
