Teaching with SimpleRockets2

@Lefloic This is the easy orbital rocket, its not painted so the students can paint and texture after their done. Having it not painted makes it a bit harder, but the second picture is what i was talking about but not as organized. Let me know if there is anything i need to change about the rocket. Also let me know if i should continue with the medium level rocket.

This link is the only way to get this craft.
https://www.simplerockets.com/c/0OLQ9w/Easy-Orbital-Rocket

@Lefloic I'll start building, easy, medium and hard Rockets for orbit.

@sflanker I checked the Google Doc, great stuff! I'll have a look again for future activities.

@MclovinSpace That's a good idea, I showed them how to build but starting with the parts could help too. If you have a rocket, I'd gladly save it on the computers as fun challenge!

@Lefloic This post is old but i was thinking of building a working rocket to orbit, then disassemble it. So they have to put it together the right way or it wont work. I would be honored to do this for you. Let me know!

Well, the physics and concepts of the game could be a Little difficult for kids.... You could start with How To Build A Rocket...@Lefloic

I started writing a response to this two weeks ago, and it turned in to a research project and an essay. It is still a work in progress, but I'm developing a syllabus for teaching beginners (especially middle school and high school kids) how to get a rocket into orbit that I hope does a better job of giving people a firm grasp on the core concepts than just following the tutorials and using trial and error: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EAcnHexoaeTKNtFMxZpYhgeurQAqb9AhhQjzTuiLea8/edit

Thank you very much for the input! I didn't think about Vizzy but I'll keep that in mind later when I want to talk about programming.

I'd like to talk/show them the different engine and how the shape plays a role.

Thanks again, I'll be back to tell you how it went

@crowxe @Oski thnx for reply

@Probreyene it's just above 8.803km, less than 1km above that I think. In real life the geostationary orbit isn't stationary at all times, the satelites make little corrections with thair rcs every couple degrees I think.

@Probreyene yes there's a perfect point that can't be achieved but the two notches around it make tiny shift of couple of degrees within few weeks

@crowxe a geostationary orbit is not possible in this game's version of Earth
I tried it before and the earth's rotation still looks faster on the craft's point of view

A programming and physical combination of GoodGame, reflected by the rocket programming

I'd have said vizzy if they were few students with good math background or else the fun class would turn into a math class. I have some ideas.
1. With the same rocket perform a certain task/mission the way they suggest and then repeat it the way it should be done so they can see the effect.
2. Show them the relation between force/mass/acceleration through engines thrust and craft mass and maybe the dummy pilot
3. Before reentry (with dummy pilot on board) reset the G meter and show them how many Gs are produced even at that high altitude with thin air since the function of drag incorporates velocity squared × air density.
4. With all your demonstrations you can have a small vizzy script to display relevant data (such as the product of velocity squared × air density)
5. Have a satellite at geostationary orbit , it would be fun to watch how they maintain relative position to the surface (you can download my GPS sandbox to save time, it already has a satellite in geostationary orbit directly above the space center and also has another satellite shot outside the solar system with 90 degrees inclination representing polaris)

Your 1st class was what I tried to suggest, awesome. I agree with Pedro. Vizzy is amazing. The relation between engine thrust and expansion ratio(engine bell length/engine throat radius) with given atmospheric density would also be a good program, considering engine customization is one of the best implemented part of this game. You should teach them the real basics of theories to them beforehand tho.

Vizzy can be a great introduction for programming. They can play with the basic blocks and see the direct effect of the code in the crafts in a matter of seconds.