TOPIC: Pencils
LOCATION: Where major pencil manufacturers are located
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil#Manufacturers
NUMBERS: How many times a pencil can be sharpened, how many words it can write
https://www.pencils.net/didyaknow.cfm
17 pencils of different lengths
This paragraph is 45 words in length. A standard pencil
can write about 45,000 words before it is used up. In
other words, a standard pencil could be used to write
this paragraph 1,000 times. How long would it take to
write that many words?
APPEARANCE:
Different types of pencils:
x 1,000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil#Manufacturers
graphite
liquid graphite
solid graphite pencils
charcoal pencil
RELATIONSHIPS: Where major pencil manufacturers are located
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlptoTkE25Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT6aEFE7dCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pfqX73s_Eo
TIME: The history of the pencil
timeline:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil#Manufacture
1565
1560
1662
1858
1955 Liquid graphite pencils