Take Ten

In Take Ten, students take photos in their communities to illustrate how trade shapes local aspects of global issues. In the second stage students assemble their photos into stories that inform, engage, educate, and mobilize people.

Metropolitan Learning Center, Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA

NEW Pollution, recycling, energy and water conservation, technological innovation, and healthy living are issues that these students care deeply about. Find out why, and also share your thoughts in the project’s comments section.

North Kirkwood Middle School, Kirkwood, Missouri, USA

NEW Students examine their community’s past and present through photographs that relate how an ancient archeological site, a local landfill, and recycling are central to their community’s future sustainability.

Pesantren Teungku Chiek Oemar Diyan, Aceh Besar, Indonesia

NEW Photo narratives tell stories about this Indonesian community’s interaction with the beautiful but threatened marine environments, and of changing economic roles for women.

Crescent Girls’ School, Singapore

Students in this all-girl school in Singapore show how their daily experiences are connected to the world. Their photo essays explore not just the fact that people apply ideas and use products from other places; they suggest that people’s actions and the consequences they yield are tightly connected around the globe.

Callisburg Middle School, Callisburg, Texas, USA

These sixth graders in Texas learn how natural disasters ripple far out from epicenter. An earthquake in Chile, tsunami in Japan, and severe drought in Texas cause hardship and heartaches, while also disrupting production and supplies of food and goods as well as their prices and affecting the lives of people locally and those living on different continents.

SMPN 3 Sugio, Lamongan, East Java, Indonesia

Batik is more than a beautiful fabric–it is interwoven into Indonesia’s many local identities. Batik techniques have been handed down through centuries, and many remain unchanged today, but globalization has made batik available far and wide.

Scarsdale Middle School, Scarsdale, New York, USA

Every day people make hundreds of tiny decisions–what to eat, how to get from place to place, what energy to use, what products to consume, and how to get rid of their waste. Students look at how small daily choices in Scarsdale have a big impact on the health of people and the environment.

Thatakopittayakom School, Nakhon Sawan, Thailand

These Thai students consider the many ways economic prosperity and growth are connected to a spectrum of global issues, including education, gender equality, health, protection of natural resources, energy security, and environmental sustainability.

Pondok Pesantren Darul Istiqamah, Barabai, South Kalimantan, Indonesia

What distinguishes genuine sasirangan from “fake” factory-made products flooding the market, and why are its secrets guarded so closely? Lower secondary grade students in the all-girl part of this Islamic boarding school follow the threads of a centuries-old local textile techniques and unravel a story about the community’s fight to keep a line between what they see as fake and what is authentic sasirangan.

Faircrest Memorial Middle School, Canton, Ohio, USA

Innovations are enabling energy companies to inject highly pressurized liquids deep into rock fractures to extract natural gas, providing energy and jobs. These middle school students bore into the complexity of fracking and wonder what is the environmental cost, and whether one has to choose between having jobs and energy and having safe drinking water.

SMPN 1, Lamongan, East Java, Indonesia

These young students in East Java don’t hesitate to get their hands dirty for a cleaner environment, and they create chic accessories at the same time. One good idea puts sustainability, innovation, and trade into the same bag!

John F. Kennedy Middle School, Hudson, Massachusetts, USA

Students in this semi-rural community to close to Boston would like to see the public school bus routes in their community expanded. They think such a move will not only alleviate the morning and afternoon traffic congestion in their school driveway, it will also improve the environment and help their families save money on gas.