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From www.forbes.com - May 14, 2021 3:37 AM
When you hold a pencil, you hold the world in your hands. Its raw ingredients make a far-reaching journey around the globe, from Sweden to South Africa, Estonia, Brazil and beyond. To understand the creation of the pencil is to understand countries and commerce, global trade and transport networks, markets and manufacturing, production and politics, exports and economies.


In the right teacher’s hands, the humble pencil can be a lesson in geography, and can inspire students to explore compelling questions: What are the environmental impacts to South Africa’s softwood forests that are logged to create the pencil shaft? What are the working conditions in the paint factories in Kazakhstan to produce the classic yellow casing? How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the rubber industry in Thailand, used to make the erasers?

Via John Evans