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🚀 BUG BLASTER: THE FIZZ–POP–FLY STEM MISSION KIT 🐞

Become a Bugstronaut Engineer!

Fizz. Pop. Fly!

Can you help Fizzbit the Bugstronaut return home?

This exciting hands-on STEM activity transforms children into real scientists as they investigate the perfect launch conditions for their bug-powered rockets. Every launch is packed with suspense, excitement, and scientific discovery!

Add water and a fizz tablet to the rocket tube, snap on the bug-topped lid, and wait…

At first, nothing seems to happen.

But inside the tube, something incredible is taking place. The tablet is fizzing away, releasing an invisible gas called carbon dioxide. The pressure builds higher… and higher… and then…

POP! WHOOSH!

Your Bugstronaut blasts into the air!

🧪 A Complete STEM Investigation Kit

Bug Blaster isn’t just a rocket activity – it’s a complete scientific investigation that encourages children to:

✅ Ask questions
✅ Make predictions
✅ Carry out fair tests
✅ Measure and record results
✅ Identify patterns
✅ Draw conclusions
✅ Think like real scientists and engineers.

🚀 Three Missions. One Bugstronaut. Endless Discoveries.

Mission 1 – The Launch Angle Challenge

Which launch angle makes your Bugstronaut travel the furthest?

Mission 2 – Fuel Efficiency Investigation

How many launches can one fizz tablet power?

Mission 3 – Launch Power Investigation

How does the amount of water affect your rocket’s performance?

Each mission encourages children to experiment, collect evidence, and improve their designs—just like real space engineers.

📦 What’s Included?

A classroom investigation kit for up to 30 pupils working in groups, with 10 reusable launchers, printed pupil resources and teacher guidance. Just add water and suitable eye protection.

🚀 10 reusable fizz rocket tubes

🐞 10 Bugstronaut toppers

🫧 5 tubes of effervescent fuel tablets (100 tablets)

30 Mission Complete Certificates

1  Printed Curriculum-Linked Teacher Guide – including launch instructions, safety guidance, scientific explanations, extension ideas and teacher support notes.

30  Printed Bug Blast Mission Log Booklets – an ink-saving pupil workbook featuring three exciting scientific investigations:

• Mission 1 – Launch Angle Challenge
• Mission 2 – Fuel Efficiency Investigation
• Mission 3 – Launch Power Investigation

💻 Teacher Support Page: A dedicated support page with curriculum links, downloadable teaching materials and a step-by-step guidance video.

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Plus…

✅ 100 effervescent tablets supplied for your launch investigations. The number of launches per tablet varies with the conditions—discovering how many is part of Mission 2!

✅ Reusable launchers and downloadable teaching resources for future investigations. Replenish tablets as needed and check tubes and lids for wear or damage before each session.

✅ Minimal preparation required

✅ Perfect for lessons, STEM clubs, science festivals and family events

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Big launches. Big discoveries. Big smiles.

🧪 The Science Behind the Blast-Off

The fizzing tablets contain citric acid and sodium hydrogen carbonate (bicarbonate of soda).

When they dissolve in water, they react to produce carbon dioxide gas.

Because the gas cannot escape, the pressure inside the tube increases.

Eventually, the pressure difference creates an outward force on the lid; when that force overcomes the lid’s grip, it pops off!

POP!

The lid launches into the air carrying your Bugstronaut with it.

Children explore:

🧪 Chemical Reactions
💨 Gas Pressure
🚀 Forces and Motion
📐 Variables and Fair Testing
📊 Data Handling and Interpretation
🌍 Scientific Enquiry Skills

🎨 Bugstronaut Craft Zone

Before launch, children can personalise their rockets by decorating the tubes with stickers, drawings, colours, and mission logos.

Can you design your own space programme and give your rocket a mission name?

Because every great astronaut needs a great spacecraft!

❤️ Why Teachers Love It

✅ Fully curriculum-linked STEM activity

✅ Encourages scientific enquiry and investigative skills

✅ Minimal preparation required

✅ Highly reusable and cost-effective

✅ Perfect for:

• Science lessons
• STEM clubs
• Science Week activities
• After-school clubs
• Transition programmes
• Family learning events

Suitable for ages 7–14 years.

 

🎉 Why Event Organisers Love It

• Huge WOW factor
• An exciting group activity, with children taking turns to launch, measure and record.
• Opportunities to decorate Bugstronauts and create their own mission designs.
• Easy to run with large groups
• Creates excitement and anticipation with every launch

Planning a make-and-take event? This kit includes 10 launchers. If you’d like every child to take one home, contact us to discuss quantities and pricing for your event.

Perfect for:

🚀 Science Festivals
🚀 Libraries
🚀 Holiday Clubs
🚀 Family Fun Days
🚀 Museums
🚀 Community Events
🚀 Birthday Parties

🚀 You’ll Also Need

• Water
• Paper towels (if working indoors)
• Small bucket for waste liquid
• Safety glasses or goggles

🛡️ Mission Safety Checklist

👓 Wear safety glasses or goggles when operating the launchers.

👩‍🏫 Activities must be supervised by an adult. Read the Teacher Guide’s preparation and safety instructions before starting.

🚸 Launch in a large, clear space, keeping spectators outside the launch and landing areas.

🚀 Point launchers away from people, pets, windows and other obstacles. Never lean over a loaded launcher.

⏳ No pop? The lid may not be fully clicked into place, allowing gas to escape. Follow the teacher guidance to remove the lid, reset the launcher and try again.

🧼 Collect Bugstronauts once launching has stopped and wipe up any spills.

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More Than a Rocket Kit…

Bug Blaster combines:

🧪 Chemistry
🚀 Engineering
💨 Physics
📊 Mathematics
🎨 Creativity
🌍 Problem Solving

Children don’t simply launch rockets…

They become scientists on a mission to get Fizzbit safely home.

✨ Because the best way to learn science… is to do science.

– Scientific Sue 

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✨ Sparks of imagination are at the heart of creativity!