Marbles Flour Crater

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

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. How to make moon dough. Drop them onto your moon surface. Does it make a difference if you drop the balls or marbles from different heights.

Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times so that you can see several craters. Gather some marbles and balls of different sizes and weights. The book also suggests using different materials to make layers like sand flour and cocoa.

The greater an object s velocity the larger its impact 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 and different sized balls. Add 4 cups or so of any baking flour to a bowl.

Fill a tray with sand or flour. Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters. The sizes of the craters depends on the sizes of the marbles or toys and the drop height. Carefully remove the marble stone from the flour.

Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming. 1 2 cup of cooking oil. Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon. Then compare the different craters formed by the marbles.

Making craters with marbles. 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. Meteorites are huge rocks that crashed into earth and the moon at high speeds a long time ago. 4 cups of baking flour.

You can experiment with dropping the marbles at various distances from the moon s surface. Fill the pan about 2 cm deep with flour lightly sprinkle the drinking chocolate to cover the entire surface.