The teaching reform of civil engineering materials experimental in China Three Gorges University was analyzed in this paper. The experimental teaching programs were classified into two levels, the basic experiment and the innovative experiment. The hierarchical teaching mode of civil engineering materials experimentation was introduced from three aspects, the hierarchy of teaching programs, the organization and implementation of experimental teaching and the teaching methods. Moreover, the safeguard measures for long-acting mechanism of this teaching model were put forward, which involved the experiment project selecting, financial supporting, the laboratory management, the process management and the experiment teaching team construction.