print email comment close Plast-o-matic URL: http://pbskids.org/wayback/future/plastics/ Description: These activities for children focus on learning more about plastic, "any of a group of compounds that can be molded, extruded, cast, or otherwise shaped." Includes a plastics extruding activity, experiments (such as making "slime"), and an interview with a plastics engineer. Part of the website for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience program. Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation Library of Congress Subject Headings: Manufacturing processes Plastics LII Database Information: Record 20247 created by Jennifer English on 01/02/2006 Last modification on 01/03/2006 Published: 01/05/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20247