Marbles Flour Crater

The sizes of the craters depends on the sizes of the marbles or toys and the drop height.

Marbles flour crater.

The book also suggests using different materials to make layers like sand flour and cocoa. How to make moon dough. Then compare the different craters formed by the marbles. 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. Making craters with marbles. 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.

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. Simulate what happens when a meteor hits the moon using flour and marbles or small toys. You can experiment with dropping the marbles at various distances from the moon s surface.

The greater an object s velocity the larger its impact crater. 4 cups of baking flour. When dropped from a given height the greater the volume the larger the crater. Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters.

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. Fill a tray with sand or flour. Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars. Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming.

Gather some marbles and balls of different sizes and weights. Drop them onto your moon surface. 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. Does it make a difference if you drop the balls or marbles from different heights.

When dropped from a given height the greater the mass the larger the crater. Marbles and different sized balls.