Vacuum forming animation

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This teaching aid is an interactive whiteboard game showing the steps and stages of vacuum forming with pictures. Students can guess what is happening in the picture then come to the board and drag black boxes from parts of the screen to uncover a hidden caption to see if they are correct, this teaching aid requires the SmartBoard software Notebook this can be downloaded free here.

This resources is really the ultimate it contains a detailed outline and comprehensive list of all processes used to shape plastic with animations, also background information about plastics such as thermoplastics etc, this is another SmartBoard teaching aid and so you will need the Notebook software installed to use it

This teaching aid details the conventional method of creating plastics, and outlines the basic methods used to shape plastics.