Materials are used widely in schools, and it’s important for students and teachers to understand how to choose the right material for any given project. This short guide gives an overview of 5 common materials and offers tips on how to buy the right product from the right supplier once you’ve picked the material for your project.
At TSL, we don’t just want to help you by supplying the best materials to support your teaching, we want to share the best ways of working with it too. Here are some useful things about the materials themselves and project ideas which we think are well worth knowing.
Acrylic is fascinating. It’s an amorphous polymer (long strands mixed together); you can usually tell amorphous material by optical clarity, other examples include PET and Polycarbonate (PC). There are two main processes to make acrylic sheet (Cast and Extrusion), but how it’s made changes the mechanical properties of the material. Here’s why:
