Marbles Flour Crater

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

Marbles flour crater. Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars. Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon. How to make moon dough. The book also suggests using different materials to make layers like sand flour and cocoa.

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. 4 cups of baking flour. Simulate what happens when a meteor hits the moon using flour and marbles or small toys. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times so that you can see several craters.

Look at the crater the marble stone has made. Gather some marbles and balls of different sizes and weights. 1 2 cup of cooking oil. Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters.

Fill a tray with sand or flour. Carefully remove the marble stone from the flour. When dropped from a given height the greater the mass the larger the crater. The greater an object s velocity the larger its impact crater.

You can experiment with dropping the marbles at various distances from the moon s surface. 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. 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. Making craters with marbles. Fill the pan about 2 cm deep with flour lightly sprinkle the drinking chocolate to cover the entire surface. You can just drop them to start and if your child has good aim feel free to throw the marbles into the flour.

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