To supplement your journey through the captivating Curriculum, daily videos & photos, and the Q&A's & live videoconferencing with the Youth Ambassadors, we have provided you with these additional resources! You will be learning about the essential need for water and food by all living organisms, the costs associated with delivering drinking water to communities around the world, and how quality of life is affected directly and indirectly by access or lack there of, to clean drinking water. We hope that these additional resources will help you produce your best work when submitting to Your Submissions! Good luck!
Challenge Based Learning Video Series
The Experiential Learning Program and accompanying Challenge Based Learning projects have proven extremely successful for teachers and students alike. Once again i2P is integrating the unique Challenge Based Learning component to support the educational theme of Water. Challenge Based Learning engages student curiosity & imagination by embracing powerful technologies and real-world context. Students take on a self-directed role and are challenged to create innovative solutions in solving real-world problems. Click the links below to learn more about Challenge Based Learning.
Botswana, General Background Information
http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Counprof/Botswana/botswana.htm
Multiple Selected Topics on the Okavango Delta
http://www.orc.ub.bw/publications.html
Water Issues in Botswana
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Water_profile_of_Botswana
The Kavango Basin
http://www.thewaterpage.com/okavango_case_study.htm
The Bushmen
http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/bushmen
Water Issues in Botswana
Water Management Challenges in Botswana
http://www.academia.edu/222323/Water_Resources_Management_in_Botswana
Peoples of the Kalahari
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people-south-africa/san
The Bushmen, mining and development issues
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/13/kalahari-bushmen-home-again-botswana-diamonds
Protecting the Bushmen
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/2252/Vanishing-Cultures--Bushmen-of-the-Kalahari
Wildlife of Botswana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_Botswana
http://www.rala.is/rade/ralareport/darkoh.pdf
The Kalahari Today: A Case of Conflict over Resource Use
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/633282
Resilient or Vulnerable Livelihoods? Assessing Livelihood Dynamics and Trajectories in Rural Botswana
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art3/
Peoples of the Okavango Delta
http://anthro.fullerton.edu/Okavango/about.html
Tourism, development and protection
http://www.unep.org/bpsp/tourism/case%20studies%20(pdf)/botswana%20(tourism).pdf
Biological Assessment of the Aquatic Ecosystems of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
http://www.conservation.org/Documents/RAP_Reports/RAP27_Okavango_Delta_Botswana_Jun-2000.pdf