Marbles Flour Crater

Carefully remove the marble stone from the flour.

Marbles flour crater.

The greater an object s velocity the larger its impact crater. The sizes of the craters depends on the sizes of the marbles or toys and the drop height. Fill a tray with sand or flour. 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.

When dropped from a given height the greater the mass the larger the crater. Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon. Does it make a difference if you drop the balls or marbles from different heights. When dropped from a given height the greater the volume the larger the crater.

1 2 cup of cooking oil. Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times so that you can see several craters. How to make moon dough.

Drop them onto your moon surface. 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. 4 cups of baking flour.

Gather some marbles and balls of different sizes and weights. Add 4 cups or so of any baking flour to a bowl. The book also suggests using different materials to make layers like sand flour and cocoa. Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters.

You can just drop them to start and if your child has good aim feel free to throw the marbles into the flour. 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. Marbles and different sized balls. Fill the pan about 2 cm deep with flour lightly sprinkle the drinking chocolate to cover the entire surface.

Making craters with marbles. Simulate what happens when a meteor hits the moon using flour and marbles or small toys.