Marbles Flour Crater

The book also suggests using different materials to make layers like sand flour and cocoa.

Marbles flour crater.

The sizes of the craters depends on the sizes of the marbles or toys and the drop height. Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars. 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 just drop them to start and if your child has good aim feel free to throw the marbles into the flour. Carefully remove the marble stone from the flour. When dropped from a given height the greater the mass the larger the crater. Drop them onto your moon surface.

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. Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming. 4 cups of baking flour.

Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon. Look at the crater the marble stone has made. Making craters with marbles. Fill a tray with sand or flour.

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. You can experiment with dropping the marbles at various distances from the moon s surface. Marbles and different sized balls.

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. Add 4 cups or so of any baking flour to a bowl. Then compare the different craters formed by the marbles. How to make moon dough.

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