Making and lanching our rockets!

This week we have been making, then launching our water and air pressure powered rockets. We have been designing our rockets to minimise drag and weight, which has presented some challenges!

The launching of our rockets was alot of fun. We had to watch our launch carefully to see what our rocket did, and how far it flew.

Too fast for the camera! But you can see the trail of water as the rocket blasts off!

We then used this information to re-design our rocket to make it fly even higher! 

The 4 Forces of flight

 We are winding up our study of the 4 forces of flight. As a fun assessment activity, Room 7 students have been using a 'free' (up to a point!) on-line application called 'Go Animate'.

The children have each made a short animation showing what they have learned about the 4 forces of flight. These animations have been posted on the 'Class of 2011" blog. Please take a moment or two to head over there and leave a comment on an animation or three!

Here is an example of one of Room 7's animations:

GoAnimate.com: Samantha's funny animals. by muritai7

Voices in the Park

We have finished recording our "Voices in the Park" stories and have posted them for you to listen to over on the "Class of 2011" blog.

This story by Anthony Brown tells the simple story of a trip to the park, through the eyes of 4 very different characters- Charles, his mother (who we call "Mrs Charles"), Smudge and her father (Who we call "Mr Smudge").

We have chosen one of these character 'voices' to tell the story of the trip to the park.

We hope you get a chance to listen and leave a comment.

The power of 'Thrust'

We have been investigating the power of thrust. We made balloon rockets that run on a string cable.


We measured how far the balloon rockets would run vs. how much thrust they produced (i.e. how much air was in the balloon). We are learning how to be good scientists by making sure we are testing using 'fair test' principles.