9 iSTEM Assessment Task 2 - Bottle Rocket Design
Due Date Weighting
Term 3, Week 9
50%
Task Brief
In groups of 3, develop and present a video
documentary that communicates the
design, development, testing and
evaluating of your group's bottle rockets.
You may use either iMovie, PowerPoint or
other movie editing software to develop
your video documentary.
Outcomes
5.1.1 develops ideas and explores solutions to technological and engineering based problems
5.2.2 applies and transfers acquired scientific and mechanical knowledge to subsequent learning experiences in a variety of contexts
5.3.1 applies knowledge and understanding of engineering principles and processes
5.3.2 identifies and uses a range of technologies in the development of solutions to engineering problems
5.4.1 uses mathematical, scientific and graphical methods related to technology and engineering
5.5.1 Applies a range of communication techniques in the presentation of research and design solutions
5.5.2 critically evaluates innovative, enterprising and creative solutions
5.6.1 selects and uses appropriate problem-solving techniques in a range of STEM contexts
5.6.2 will work individually or in teams to solve problems in STEM contexts
Task Requirements
Your video must include the following:
1. an overview of the engineering design process and how it has been applied to the
design and develop your bottle rocket.
2. Outline of the scientific principles that are critical to the success of your bottle rocket
design and an explanation of how these have been applied to the design of your
bottle rockets:
- Forces and motion
- Inertia, stability and the design considerations (CM & CP, fill ratio, drag, fin
design, nose cone design)
3. The development of your ideas including:
- graphic techniques (sketching, scaled drawing, 3D designs)
- the selection of appropriate materials and the use of different technologies
used to develop your bottle rocket e.g. 3D printing, balsa, foam board, etc.
4. The building process you undertook to produce your final bottle rocket (images and
discussion of how you built your rocket.)
5. Document your testing including:
video of the behaviour of your rocket during the test
results of testing (facts)
testing data
conclusion (what did you find out from testing your rockets?)
comment on the overall success and/or failure
changes modifications required
plan for moving forward
6. Final Evaluation of the success of your bottle rocket design:
What went well?
What didn't go well?
What would you change if you were given the opportunity?
Submission Details
You are required to submit the following to Edmodo by the due date:
Individual iSTEM Bottle Rocket Experiemental Report (assists your teacher in
allocating individual marks)
Groups video documentary (.mp4 file)
STUDENT PLANNING (complete before you start and
share with your teacher.)
Yes No Some Parts
Do I understand what I need to do?
Have I asked my teacher for further
clarification?
How many hours would this task take me to
complete?
What resources will I need?
I have allocated the following dates to work on this task in my DIARY: (ADD MORE dates)
1. ____/____/____ 2. ____/____/____
3. ____/____/____ 4. ____/____/____
5. ____/____/____ 6. ____/____/____
Teacher feedback: 1st check point date
Teacher feedback: 2nd check point date
Teacher feedback: 3rd check point date
Criteria Ratings
5.1.1 develops
ideas and A Comprehensive B Thorough ability C Sound ability to D Developing ability E Limited ability to
explores ability to develop ideas to develop ideas and develop ideas and to develop ideas and develop ideas and
solutions to
and explore solutions explore solutions to explore solutions to explore solutions to explore solutions to
STEMbased
problems to STEM based STEMbased STEMbased STEMbased STEMbased
problems. problems. problems. problems. problems.
5.2.2 applies and
transfers acquired A Comprehensive B – Thorough transfer of C Sound transfer of D Developing E Limited transfer of
scientific and
mechanical transfer of scientific scientific knowledge scientific knowledge transfer of scientific scientific knowledge
knowledge to knowledge to bottle to bottle rocket design to bottle rocket knowledge to bottle to bottle rocket
subsequent learning
rocket design and and testing design and testing rocket design and design and testing
experiences in a
variety of contexts testing testing based activities.
based activities
5.3.1 applies C Sound
knowledge and A Comprehensive B Thorough D Developing E Limited
knowledge and
understanding of knowledge and knowledge and knowledge and knowledge and
STEM principles understanding of
understanding of understanding of understanding of understanding of
and processes STEM principles
STEM principles and STEM principles and STEM principles and STEM principles and
and processes.
processes. processes. processes. processes.
C Sound use of a
5.3.2 identifies and
uses a range of A Comprehensive use B Thorough use of a range of D Developing use of E Limited use of a
technologies in the of a range of range of technologies technologies in the a range of range of technologies
development of
technologies in the in the development development of technologies in the in the development
solutions to
engineering development of of solutions to solutions to development of of solutions to
problems solutions to engineering engineering problems engineering solutions to engineering problems
problems problems. engineering problems
5.4.1 plans and
manages projects A Comprehensive ability B - Thorough C Sound ability to D Developing ability E Limited ability to
using an iterative to plan and manage ability to plan plan and manage to plan and manage plan and manage
and collaborative
projects using an and manage projects using an projects using an projects using an
design process
iterative and projects using an iterative and iterative and iterative and
collaborative design iterative and collaborative collaborative design collaborative design
process. collaborative design design process process. process.
process
5.5.1 applies a A Demonstrates B Demonstrates C Demonstrates sound
range of D Demonstrates E Demonstrates
comprehensive thorough application application in a range of
communication developing limited application in
application in a range in a range of communication
techniques in
application in a range a range of
the presentation of communication communication techniques in the
of research and of communication communication
techniques in the techniques in the presentation of research
design solutions techniques in the techniques in the
presentation of presentation of and design solutions
presentation of presentation of
research and design research and design
research and design research and design
solutions solutions
solutions solutions
5.5.2 critically
evaluates A Comprehensive B Thorough ability C Sound evaluation D Developing E Limited
innovative, evaluation of design evaluation of design of design solutions evaluation of design evaluation of design
enterprising and
solutions for bottle solutions for bottle for bottle rocket. solutions for bottle solutions for bottle
creative solutions
rocket. rocket. rocket. rocket.
5.6.1 selects and uses
appropriate problem- B Thoroughly selects C Soundly selects D Demonstrates a E Demonstrates a
A Comprehensively
solving techniques in a and uses appropriate and uses developing selection limited selection and
range of technological selects and uses
problem-solving appropriate problem- and use of appropriate use of appropriate
and engineering appropriate problem-
contexts techniques in a range of solving techniques problem-solving problem-solving
solving techniques in a
technological and in a range of techniques in a range techniques in a range
range of technological
engineering contexts technological and of technological and of technological and
and engineering contexts
engineering engineering contexts engineering contexts
contexts
Total
(Final Mark) /40
Task 1 – Research of Scientific Principles behind Bottle Rocket
Introduction
Introduce your Inquiry Question and briefly describe the design of the rocket you have chosen
Describe the scientific principle behind bottle rockets
(Forces, aerodynamics, air pressure, etc.)
Discuss how the engineering design process is used to investigate your inquiry question/topic
Task 2 – Sketches and Conceptual Design Drawings
Design Sketch 1
Design Sketch 2
Task 3 - Testing and Experimentation
Your report should include a detailed record of the experiments conducted
to test and modify your designs. Each experiment should clearly explain the
results and provide a conclusion for those results. There should be at least
2 separate experiments conducted for your designs.
Experiment 1
Labelled Diagram of Design
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Results
What I changed What I measured (dependent variable):
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Summary
Write a short summary describing the changes you made to your original design. In your
summary, outline the evidence you used from your experiments to make these changes and
evaluate how effective the changes were.
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