Explore: Building Materials of Plymouth

Explore: Building Materials of Plymouth

Discover the materials used to build Plymouth’s most iconic buildings with your class, with this hands-on experience of a range of stones, granites and metals.

Borrow this Explore Loan Box to spark the imagination of your students with a hands-on experience of touching and exploring real and replica objects from The Box.

Our boxes are themed to explore curriculum and topic subjects, to develop your students’ enquiry skills, and to enhance their independent learning by providing new experiences that they'll never forget.

Download the accompanying PDF resource to support your teaching.

Key Stages:
Key Stage 2,
Key Stage 3,
Key Stage 4,
Key Stage 5
Curricula:
Geography,
Local Area Study,
STEM
Topic:
Building Materials
Price £20 per week
Length of hire Up to half a term

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