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We suggest that you use a set of resources, a basic geography library, to help you prepare classroom activities for our online features. These resources are Geography for Life: National Geography Standards 1994; three National Geographic Society atlases; an encyclopedia; a school text; and the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine.
 
ANA National Geographic Society. Atlas of North America: Space-Age Portrait of a Continent. 1985.
AOW National Geographic Society. National Geographic Atlas of the World, Revised 6th Edition. 1995.
EYW National Geographic Society. Exploring Your World: The Adventure of Geography. 1993.
GFL Geography Education Standards Project. Geography for Life: National Geography Standards 1994.
GWP Boehm, Richard G., David G. Armstrong and Francis P. Hunkins. Geography: The World and Its People. 1996.
HAUS National Geographic Society. Historical Atlas of the United States. 1993.
NGM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine.
 
To support teaching of “Okavango: Africa’s Savage Oasis” refer to the following.
 
AOW: Plate 94: Southern Africa; Plate 128: Botswana, country profile and flag.
EYW: Pages 156-157: Delta; page 193: Ecosystem; page 203: Environment; page 230: Food Chain; page 274: Habitat; page 509: Swamp; pages 590-596: Wetland.
GFL: Pages 77-78, 120-121, 158-159, 199-200: Standard 8.
GWP: Pages 556-560: Inland Southern Africa.
NGM: “Crater and Delta: Life and Death for African Wildlife” (On Television). April 1992.
Frans Lanting. “Botswana: A Gathering of Waters and Wildlife.” December 1990.
Douglas B. Lee. “Okavango Delta: Old Africa’s Last Refuge.” December 1990.
William Graves. “Okavango: Africa’s Wild Treasure.” December 1990.
Arthur Zich. “Botswana, the Adopted Land.” December 1990.

 

For a comprehensive search of the Society’s publications, go to the NGS Publications Index.

For other references and related Web sites, visit Okavango Resources.

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