Marbles Flour Crater

You can just drop them to start and if your child has good aim feel free to throw the marbles into the flour.

Marbles flour crater.

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. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times so that you can see several craters. Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters. Look at the crater the marble stone has made.

Marbles and different sized balls. Does it make a difference if you drop the balls or marbles from different heights. Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming. 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.

Simulate what happens when a meteor hits the moon using flour and marbles or small toys. Making craters with marbles. 1 2 cup of cooking oil. Then compare the different craters formed by the marbles.

Meteorites are huge rocks that crashed into earth and the moon at high speeds a long time ago. The sizes of the craters depends on the sizes of the marbles or toys and the drop height. Fill the pan about 2 cm deep with flour lightly sprinkle the drinking chocolate to cover the entire surface. The greater an object s velocity the larger its impact crater.

Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon. 4 cups of baking flour. Gather some marbles and balls of different sizes and weights. When dropped from a given height the greater the volume the larger the crater.

Carefully remove the marble stone from the flour. The book also suggests using different materials to make layers like sand flour and cocoa. How to make moon dough. Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars.

Add 4 cups or so of any baking flour to a bowl. Fill a tray with sand or flour.