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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.

  • About CBL

  • Challenging Students

  • Change the World

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

http://www.gazettebw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6090%3Abotswana-has-lowest-water-reservoir-capacity-&catid=13%3Abusiness&Itemid=2

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

Okavango Delta Floods

http://www.orc.ub.bw/floodsoflife/Chapter8.pdf