Bottle Rocket
- Grades 3-5
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
- 3-5-ETS1-3: Engineering Design
- 5-PS1-4: Matter and Its Interactions
- RI.3.3: English Language Arts > Reading: Informational Texts
- RI.3.4 : English Language Arts > Science & Technical Subjects
Why it’s awesome
Cleared for takeoff
Try your launch again and again to see how high you can fly.
Blast off into science
Adjustable fins let you change the rocket’s flight path.
Discover the why
Explore air pressure and chemical reactions with bonus experiments.
What’s included?
![](https://icdn.kiwico.com/site/store/pdp/whats-included/TBRT_Bottle_Rocket_Materials.webp)
Topics explored
Air pressure
Carbon dioxide
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)