Marbles Flour Crater

You can just drop them to start and if your child has good aim feel free to throw the marbles into the flour.

Marbles flour crater.

Add 4 cups or so of any baking flour to a bowl. Making craters with marbles. Marbles and different sized balls. 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. You can experiment with dropping the marbles at various distances from the moon s surface. The book also suggests using different materials to make layers like sand flour and cocoa. Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming.

Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars. Drop them onto your moon 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. Carefully remove the marble stone from the flour.

Meteorites are huge rocks that crashed into earth and the moon at high speeds a long time ago. 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. Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters. Gather some marbles and balls of different sizes and weights.

When dropped from a given height the greater the mass the larger the crater. How to make moon dough. Then compare the different craters formed by the marbles. When dropped from a given height the greater the volume the larger the crater.

1 2 cup of cooking oil. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times so that you can see several craters. 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.

Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon. The greater an object s velocity the larger its impact crater.