Marbles Flour Crater

Fill the pan about 2 cm deep with flour lightly sprinkle the drinking chocolate to cover the entire surface.

Marbles flour crater.

Drop them onto your moon surface. How to make moon dough. Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming. Add 4 cups or so of any baking flour to a bowl.

4 cups of baking flour. You can experiment with dropping the marbles at various distances from the moon s surface. Then compare the different craters formed by the marbles. 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. Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars. 1 2 cup of cooking oil. Gather some marbles and balls of different sizes and weights.

Does it make a difference if you drop the balls or marbles from different heights. The sizes of the craters depends on the sizes of the marbles or toys and the drop height. When dropped from a given height the greater the mass the larger the crater. Meteorites are huge rocks that crashed into earth and the moon at high speeds a long time ago.

Marbles and different sized balls. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times so that you can see several craters. Carefully remove the marble stone from the flour. The book also suggests using different materials to make layers like sand flour and cocoa.

Look at the crater the marble stone has made. Simulate what happens when a meteor hits the moon using flour and marbles or small toys. Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters. When dropped from a given height the greater the volume the larger the crater.

You can just drop them to start and if your child has good aim feel free to throw the marbles into the flour. Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon.