Stage	Key Stage	Subjects	Title
Primary	KS2	Science	Rocket lesson idea - Washing Line Rocket

 

The activity is based around Newton’s third law of motion:-

for every force there is a reaction force that is equal in size, but opposite in direction. That is to say that whenever an object pushes another object it gets pushed back in the opposite direction equally hard.

Students make a simple tethered water rocket to investigate forces.

 

 

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