Marbles Flour Crater

When dropped from a given height the greater the mass the larger the crater.

Marbles flour crater.

4 cups of baking flour. Making craters with marbles. 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.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times so that you can see several 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. Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon. The book also suggests using different materials to make layers like sand flour and cocoa.

How to make moon dough. 1 2 cup of cooking oil. You can just drop them to start and if your child has good aim feel free to throw the marbles into the flour. Fill a tray with sand or flour.

Add 4 cups or so of any baking flour to a bowl. 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. Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming. Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars.

You can experiment with dropping the marbles at various distances from the moon s surface. Then compare the different craters formed by the marbles. Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters. Marbles and different sized balls.

The sizes of the craters depends on the sizes of the marbles or toys and the drop height. The greater an object s velocity the larger its impact crater. When dropped from a given height the greater the volume the larger the crater. Fill the pan about 2 cm deep with flour lightly sprinkle the drinking chocolate to cover the entire surface.

Simulate what happens when a meteor hits the moon using flour and marbles or small toys. Does it make a difference if you drop the balls or marbles from different heights.