it receives the parachute and is then slipped over another bottle that makes up the body of the rocket. The rubber band wraps around the outside of the chassis, holding those plastic tongues in place.

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?

The problem with a lot of these water bottle rocket projects is that they leak where the bottle meets the launcher. In most cases this is a good thing as it’s almost impossible to build up ...

“Each day, we've done different activities ... water bottle rockets that rely on pressurized air and water. The comparison helped students see how different forces affect rocket motion and ...