Study of Mercury

One of the lessons from our science book, Exploring Creation: Astronomy, was about the planet Mercury.  After we had read all about Mercury, and even looked up information about the space probes that were sent to Mercury, we did some projects.  The first one was a simulation of how craters are made.  We took rocks and dropped them into some flour.  The kids all loved doing that!  The second project was making a salt dough planet themselves.  The little girls even wanted to try that!  We made the dough, and poked holes in it to simulate the craters, and let them dry.  The kids all thought that was so cool!

Here are some pictures of our Mercury project day!