Planning on teaching rocketry this year?
I found some fantastic free resources that can help you out.
They include lessons, units, worksheets, and many activities for making rockets. (The safe kind.)
You should be able to teach your children or teens a lot with these free resources.
Let’s take a look at what they are.
Free Resources for Teaching Rocketry
NASA: NASA has a wide variety of resources about rocketry.
National Association of Rocketry: This is a link to NAR’s Educational Resources page.
Teach Engineering: Get a curricular unit on rockets on this site.
Kids Fun Science: Kids can learn how to make simple paper rockets on this page.
AMA Flight School: This site has a paper rocket activity your kids will like.
Try Engineering: This is a link to a water rocket launch activity.
Buggy and Buddy: This site has a straw rocket activity with a free printable.
Kids Earth Science: This page has a balloon rockets activity.
Instructables: You’ll find a paper stomp rockets activity here
MIT: This is a link to a free PDF with a bottle rocket activity.
Estes Rockets: This is a free printable unit on rocketry.
Rockets4Schools: Get a free printable worksheet on rocketry basics here.
TLS Books: Get a free model rocketry word search on TLS Books.
Kids Science Challenge: This is a free PDF with directions on how to build a soda straw rocket.
Did you find some helpful resources for teaching rocketry to your kids? If you need more, I’ll add them as I find them, so check back often.
Many blessings,
