• Bottle Rocket

    1. Grades 3-5

    $27.954.8

    Get ready to blast off into the air with your very own bottle rocket. Assemble your launcher, rocket, funnel, and launch mixture to experience some extremely fizzy fun. Read more

    Academic Standards

    1. 3-5-ETS1-3: Engineering Design
    2. 5-PS1-4: Matter and Its Interactions
    3. RI.3.3: English Language Arts > Reading: Informational Texts
    4. RI.3.4 : English Language Arts > Science & Technical Subjects

    Why it’s awesome

    1. Cleared for takeoff

      Try your launch again and again to see how high you can fly.

    2. Blast off into science

      Adjustable fins let you change the rocket’s flight path.

    3. Discover the why

      Explore air pressure and chemical reactions with bonus experiments.

    What’s included?

    • wood launcher set (2 pcs)

    • funnel piece, paper cup

    • sticky foam sheet, bottle

    • 5 balloons, cork

    • scoop, nose cone

    • sticker sheet

    • stir stick

    • zip tie

    • string

    • 4 fins

    • baking soda 1.5 oz (45 g)

    • citric acid 1.5 oz (45 g)

    • 2 sticky foam circles

    • illustrated instruction sheet

    • Tinker Zine

    Topics explored

    1. Air pressure

    2. Carbon dioxide

    3. Chemical reactions

    Additional details

    From the desk of the product designer:

    Behind the design

    “It's less messy than a bottle of diet soda and a package of Mentos, but just as much fun!”

    - KiwiCo Product Designer

    By the numbers

    42

    Bottle rocket prototypes

    hundreds

    Glasses of water used during testing

    5

    Number of times product designers launched before the countdown was complete (and got soaked as a result)

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