Preparing to Learn

Expected Duration: 4 - 6 hours // Deadline: Before your arrival

Please read through the following information about our project work in Botswana, and then check out the Kindle book Culture Smart! Botswana, below! We want you to have read the Culture Smart! Botswana before you land in Botswana and expect it will take you between 4 - 6 hours to read. To re-watch the Botswana Teaser, click here!

Local to Global

During our time in Botswana, students will participate in conservation studies and explore the conflict between humans and their environment in Botswana, gaining an understanding of the complexities of sustainability. Students will discover storytelling customs in Botswana and apply the techniques to constructing their own stories.

Summative Task

While in Botswana, students will complete a field study on conservation sustainability in Greater Okavango Delta that will include collaborative data collection, individual data analysis, and a final recommendation which will be connected to their examination of conservation legislations in Botswana.

Students will write an evidence-based story and perform it in the traditional oral storytelling approach. This story and performance should describe, narrate, and explain integral animal information reflecting statistical evidence collected on our safari drives. Individual student performances will be recorded and several performers will be selected to introduce the group’s data in the final showcase.

Final showcase is a presentation to a panel of conservationists and local Botswanan authors. It is also recorded and live streamed for our external audience. The final showcase will consist of:

• The selected oral storytelling performances
• Group Field Study Presentations
• iPad Storytelling Exhibition: All students stories will be on display to showcase traditional Botswanan oral storytelling.

Culture Smart! Botswana

You will find the Culture Smart! Botswana pre-loaded onto your kindle account which will be activated as of 1 July. Use your iPad to access and read this informative introduction to Botswana.