Curriculum
Tarmac’s Quarryville website is an education resource for schools that supports key content areas of the National Curriculum, Key Stages 2 and 3. Use of the pupil activities will meet many of the aims of the curriculum, especially those related to Science and Geography. However, there are opportunities to incorporate other subjects, notably ICT and Citizenship.
Below we provide a brief description of each area in the Quarryville website and how it relates to Tarmac and the industry in general (quarrying processes, operations, products, etc).
Quarryville Areas
Rock Quarry
This area contains a basic introduction to the three most common types of rock, plus information on minerals and weathering. The ‘How A Rock Quarry Works’ online activity examines the different stages of quarrying (stripping, drilling, blasting, etc.), using a quarry flow chart for visual support.
- KS2/3 Science SC3: Materials and their properties, changing materials
- KS2/3 Geography: geographical skills, patterns and processes, geological changes, environmental change and sustainable development, environmental planning and development, knowledge and understanding of places, water and its effect on landscapes and people, health and safety, communication.
Sand and Gravel Quarry
This area contains a basic introduction to the three most common types of rock, plus information on minerals and weathering. An online activity examines the roles of different workers at a typical sand and gravel quarry.
- KS2/3 Science SC3: Materials and their properties, changing materials.
- KS2/3 Geography: geographical skills, patterns and processes, geological changes, environmental change and sustainable development, environmental planning and development, knowledge and understanding of places, water and its effect on landscapes and people, health and safety, communication.
Laboratory
This area examines minerals and their properties (hardness, colour, transparency, etc.) with special emphasis on the many uses of Britain’s most adaptable rock, limestone.
- KS2/3 SC3 Materials and their properties.
75 Stone St.
This area looks at the many ways rocks, aggregates and derivatives (concrete, plaster, bricks, etc.) are used in house building, and also in the manufacture of everyday household objects.
- KS2/3 geographical enquiry and skills.
Museum
This area introduces some basic information on archaeology and geology, and also examines the role of the quarry industry in supporting digs and exhibitions.
- KS2/3 Geography: geographical skills, knowledge and understanding of places, communication.
Art Gallery
This area is where pupils can record their visit to a quarry, with web pages, stories and drawings. It includes an online link to ‘The Story of Tarmac’ timeline.
- KS2/3 communication and ICT skills.
The Safety Zone
This area examines the many hazards which can endanger uninvited visitors to Britain’s quarries.
- KS2/3 Science health and safety.
- KS2/3 Geography health and safety.
- KS3 Citizenship.
Eco Centre
This area looks at the difference between restoration at rock quarries, and sand and gravel quarries. It also looks at the role of quarries in wildlife conservation, and includes an online activity focused on the impact of quarries on local communities.
- KS2/3 Education for Sustainable Development
- KS2/3 Geography: environmental change and sustainable development
- KS3 Citizenship.
Recycling
This area introduces the concept of recycling and why it is so important. It demonstrates different uses of recycled aggregates and challenges the notion that recycled products = poor quality products.
- KS2/3 Education for Sustainable Development.
- KS2/3 Geography: environmental change and sustainable development.
- KS3 Citizenship.
