Olly's cool box of plastics

Olly's Cool Box of Plastics

 

This educational toolkit contains a series of experiments, a booklet for children explaining how plastics are formed and how to conduct the experiments, and a teachers’ guide. Olly is designed to engage pupils aged between six and ten, promoting science through five fun experiments. The experiments highlight the importance of plastics and demonstrate the wide variety of properties that make them indispensable in so many applications.  

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Subject(s)Design and technology, Engineering, Science
Age5-7, 7-11
Published2016
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Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/xd7p5

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