Students can build their own straw rockets and test them on the Straw Rocket Launcher. Just like early rocket pioneer Robert Goddard, they can conduct scientific experiments by varying the trajectory angle and launch energy. These rockets can travel up to 50 feet!
The Straw Rocket Launcher uses pneumatic force created by releasing a weighted drop rod in the cylinder to launch rockets. The force of the launch can be controlled by varying the release height of the rod. The launcher features the following:
Building straw rockets is a fun, inexpensive activity and a great way to introduce students to rocketry. Use with Precision Straws, sold separately. Recommended for use in a large, open indoor area such as a gymnasium.
Looking for standards-based activities to accompany these materials? The Straw Rockets Teacher’s Guide is available for print here, or you can download a digital copy for free here.
In need of fun activities for elementary-aged students? Check out our Straw Rocket Elementary STEM Activity Guide, available for print and free digital download.
This pack includes enough Precision Straws, clay, and fin material for 30 students to make four rockets each, which enables them to experiment with different weights, straw lengths, and fin designs. Pack includes student instructions. Requires launcher, scissors, ruler, and transparent tape, sold separately.
Ensure that your SPIKE™ Essential Set always has a complete set of minifigures with this replacement set of 4 minifigures included with the LEGO® Education SPIKE Essential Set.
• Includes 4 replacement minifigures supplied with the LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential Set (45345).
Pitsco Education Timber Cutter is a helpful tool for cutting 1/8" wooden sticks. Recommended for bridge and tower building as well as other model projects. The see-through safety guard limits finger access to the blade.
A single-edged razor blade provides a clean, accurate cut. Miter marks are molded into the base to use as a reference when making angle cuts. Five extra blades are included. Additional replacement blades sold separately.
Pitsco Mini Straw Rocket Launcher can propel rockets up to 25 feet. Just put the rocket on the launch tube, pull back the air pressure plunger, and let go – it couldn't be easier. Also, includes a Launch Angle Tool that helps you turn the launch tube to the desired angle.
The Mini Straw Rocket Launcher is made of acrylic, stainless steel, plastic, and hardboard and measures 7-3/4" L x 4" W x 8" H (with launch tube up). Works with rockets made of Precision Straws or 7/32" diameter drinking straws. No assembly required.
Get ready for code your students can wear! Code Cube™ is a wearable tech learning tool that offers teachers and students a true coding experience not based around a robot. Using the programmable LED screen with its built-in accelerometer and sound output features, students employ block-based programming to create artistic animations, colors, and patterns that can play sounds or change as they move it around.
Has your Straw Rocket Launcher’s launch tube seen better days? If so, this brass tube replaces the launch tube so you can keep flying those rockets.
LEGO® Education Tubes lets children explore a world of fantasy animals and other creative builds – made from Tubes!
Using a colorful collection of unique tube elements, LEGO® DUPLO® bricks, balls, doors and baskets, and 6 building inspiration cards, kids can create an egg-laying hen, dragon, little pooping larva and more.
Tubes develops children's 21st century skills, such as problem-solving, collaboration and fine motor skills, while introducing them to cause and effect, symmetry and 3D shape recognition.
This fun Early Learning set for preschoolers also includes a Getting Started card containing 5 simple ideas to inspire playful learning with Tubes in the classroom.
Make your train pause, stop, change direction, sound the horn, and more! Taking the familiarity of a train and combining it with the new action bricks, early learners will learn through play about sequencing, looping, conditional coding, and cause and effect by placing the new action bricks within the train’s track. Each action brick creates a specific action allowing for students to test and redesign ways to problem-solve and work together to get their train to its destination.
Grades: Preschool - 1
Ages: 3 & up
Themes: Coding and Programming , STEM
Skills: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Coding
Subject: Early Childhood and Kindergarten, Science and Technology
A target board best used with the Straw Rocket Launcher. Set up the board a distance away and have students aim their rockets at it. See who can land their rocket closest to the center of the target. It’s a great addition to all straw rocket lessons.
STEAM Park builds on every child’s natural curiosity and desire to create, explore, and investigate the world of early science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) through creative play. The possibilities are endless, as you work with them to construct a STEAM Park full of dynamic moving rides, fun games, and scenes using the special selection of LEGO® DUPLO® bricks. With every trip to STEAM Park, children grow their understanding of gears, motion, measurement, and solving problems together in a fun and engaging way.
295 LEGO® DUPLO® bricks, including gears, tracks, pulleys, boats, and figures
8 double-sided building inspiration cards with 16 models to build
STEAM Park Teacher Guide with 8 STEAM lessons for free download
A selection of online learn-to-build mini animations
Pitsco Education Straw Structures - Getting Started Package provides materials for up to 30 students. Structures start taking shape with this Getting Started package. Students explore structures and geometric shapes with instruction from Dr. Zoon and the Polyhedra Poster.