K’Nex Construction


							
Kit Loan
Suitable For: KS2

K’Nex is a creative, colourful construction kit that enables enterprising engineers to design, build, test and improve their own working models. A single kitloan contains 8 boxes of K’Nex components (see image, below), enough for a single class of up to 32 children at a time to build as much as they could possibly want.

Image of K'nex components, demonstrating colour-coded rods and connectors

With the addition of pulleys and string, your students will become civil engineers tasked with building a bridge that opens to allow a tall ship to pass by. By adding rubber bands and wheels, they transform into automotive engineers, with pole position going to the car that can travel the furthest. (We can provide an additional box of either pulleys or wheels on request.)

Other challenges are as limitless as your imagination – cranes, mousetraps and skeletons have all been built before, along with simpler investigations such as who can build the tallest tower.  Tailor the engineering to your topic, or examine specific principles in detail.

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Pricing

Classic kit loan

£27.50 + VAT per kit for 2 weeks (members)
£55 + VAT per kit for 2 weeks (non members)
All school members get 2 weeks of free kit loan

Contact our schools team with any questions on [email protected] 


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