Marbles Flour Crater

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.

Marbles flour crater.

1 2 cup of cooking oil. Fill the pan about 2 cm deep with flour lightly sprinkle the drinking chocolate to cover the entire surface. 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.

Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars. Look at the crater the marble stone has made. Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon. You can experiment with dropping the marbles at various distances from the moon s surface.

Making craters with marbles. Drop them onto your moon surface. The sizes of the craters depends on the sizes of the marbles or toys and the drop height. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times so that you can see several craters.

Then compare the different craters formed by the marbles. How to make moon dough. Does it make a difference if you drop the balls or marbles from different heights. Gather some marbles and balls of different sizes and weights.

Meteorites are huge rocks that crashed into earth and the moon at high speeds a long time ago. When dropped from a given height the greater the mass the larger the crater. Simulate what happens when a meteor hits the moon using flour and marbles or small toys. The greater an object s velocity the larger its impact crater.

Marbles and different sized balls. When dropped from a given height the greater the volume the larger the crater. Fill a tray with sand or flour. 4 cups of baking flour.

Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming. Carefully remove the marble stone from the flour.