Marbles Flour Crater

1 2 cup of cooking oil.

Marbles flour crater.

Look at the crater the marble stone has made. Fill the pan about 2 cm deep with flour lightly sprinkle the drinking chocolate to cover the entire surface. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times so that you can see several craters. 4 cups of baking flour.

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. Fill a tray with sand or flour. The sizes of the craters depends on the sizes of the marbles or toys and the drop height.

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. 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.

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. Gather some marbles and balls of different sizes and weights. Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars.

Then compare the different craters formed by the marbles. You can just drop them to start and if your child has good aim feel free to throw the marbles into the flour. Making craters with marbles. Don t pack it down the surface should be powdery like the moon.

How to make moon dough. Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters. When dropped from a given height the greater the volume the larger the crater. Drop them onto your moon surface.

Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming. Meteorites are huge rocks that crashed into earth and the moon at high speeds a long time ago.