The main portion of the build is made out of plastic soda bottles (2 liter size ... and is then slipped over another bottle that makes up the body of the rocket. The rubber band wraps around ...

Practise and challenge your friends! Download the Water bottle Rockets PDF(378 Kb). Adobe Acrobat is required. SAFETY: This rocket uses air pressure to fling a bottle at high speed 20–50 metres.

Famous families having fun with these experiments at home. • The bottle rocket challenge: faces from across the BBC compete to build and launch bottle rockets. Whose will fly highest?

Eighth and ninth grade students worked in teams to design, build, and launch water bottle rockets, learning about propulsion and altitude calculation in the process. “Hopefully they're having a ...