Look at the crater the marble stone has made.
Marbles flour crater.
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.
You can experiment with dropping the marbles at various distances from the moon s surface.
Do different balls and marbles make different kinds of craters.
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.
Then compare the different craters formed by the marbles.
Carefully remove the marble stone from the flour.
You can just drop them to start and if your child has good aim feel free to throw the marbles into the flour.
Repeat steps 2 and 3 a few times so that you can see several craters.
1 2 cup of cooking oil.
4 cups of baking flour.
When dropped from a given height the greater the volume the larger the crater.
How to make moon dough.
Fill the pan about 2 cm deep with flour lightly sprinkle the drinking chocolate to cover the entire surface.
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.
Have children reexamine the images of craters on the moon or mars.
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.
Simulate what happens when a meteor hits the moon using flour and marbles or small toys.
Drop them onto your moon surface.
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.
When dropped from a given height the greater the mass the larger the crater.
Marbles and different sized balls.
Discuss with your child how and why the craters are forming.