Marbles Flour Crater

Drop them onto your moon surface.

Marbles flour crater.

Look at the crater the marble stone has made. The book also suggests using different materials to make layers like sand flour and cocoa. How to make moon dough. Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters.

Meteorites are huge rocks that crashed into earth and the moon at high speeds a long time ago. You can experiment with dropping the marbles at various distances from the moon s surface. 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. When dropped from a given height the greater the mass the larger the crater.

Simulate what happens when a meteor hits the moon using flour and marbles or small toys. Then compare the different craters formed by the 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. Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming.

4 cups of baking flour. When dropped from a given height the greater the volume the larger the crater. Carefully remove the marble stone from the flour. Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon.

Making craters with marbles. Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars. Gather some marbles and balls of different sizes and weights. The greater an object s velocity the larger its impact crater.

1 2 cup of cooking oil. Fill a tray with sand or flour. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times so that you can see several craters. Fill the pan about 2 cm deep with flour lightly sprinkle the drinking chocolate to cover the entire surface.

Does it make a difference if you drop the balls or marbles from different heights. Add 4 cups or so of any baking flour to a bowl.