Marbles Flour Crater

Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming.

Marbles flour crater.

The sizes of the craters depends on the sizes of the marbles or toys and the drop height. Simulate what happens when a meteor hits the moon using flour and marbles or small toys. Marbles and different sized balls. Look at the crater the marble stone has made.

You can experiment with dropping the marbles at various distances from the moon s surface. Drop them onto your moon surface. You can just drop them to start and if your child has good aim feel free to throw the marbles into the flour. Add 4 cups or so of any baking flour to a bowl.

Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars. When dropped from a given height the greater the volume the larger the crater. When dropped from a given height the greater the mass the larger the crater. Small rocks marbles or other weighted objects for making craters astronaut figure for sensory play after the crater making activity round baking pan any shape will do but a circular one gives it a moon shape look.

The greater an object s velocity the larger its impact crater. Then compare the different craters formed by the marbles. Fill the pan about 2 cm deep with flour lightly sprinkle the drinking chocolate to cover the entire surface. Making craters with marbles.

To make a model of the surface of the moon drop the marbles into the pan the marbles act as the crashing asteroids and comets. Fill a tray with sand or flour. Meteorites are huge rocks that crashed into earth and the moon at high speeds a long time ago. Carefully remove the marble stone from the flour.

Does it make a difference if you drop the balls or marbles from different heights. Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon. How to make moon dough. The book also suggests using different materials to make layers like sand flour and cocoa.

1 2 cup of cooking oil. Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters.