LIST OF CLASSWORK EXERCISES
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SECTION A: THE BADIA ENVIRONMENT
- Task A1: Initial Impressions
- Task A2: A Virtual Field Trip
- Task A3: Seeking Patterns
- Task A4: Why is Jordan so dry?
- Task A5: The climate of Jordan
- Task A6: Characteristics of deserts
- Task A7: Landscape features
- Task A8: Azraq Basin- a desert system
- Task A9: Desert processes
- Task A10 Assessing landscape surfaces
- Task A11: The Badia - a case study (Ecosystems)
- Task A12: I'm a Survivor (Ecoystems)
- Task A13: High or Low yield? (Ecosystems)
SECTION B: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
- Task B1: Historical Continuity
- Task B2: Natural Borders?
- Task B3: Getting Connected
- Task B4: Types of Transport
- Task B5: Impact Analysis
- Task B6: What people think of the border? (role play)
SECTION C: QUALITY OF LIFE
- Task C1: Quality of Life
- Task C2: Population Comparisons
- Task C3: Health & Wealth
SECTION D: PLACES TO LIVE
- Task D1: Climate Influences?
- Task D2: Satellite images of the Badia
- Task D3: Photographic interpretation of settlements
- Task D4: Sedentary lifestyle .v. Nomadic
- Task D5: To go or stay?
- Task D6: Decission-making exercise
- Task D7: Perceptions
- Task D8: Setting up a Fieldwork programme
SECTION E: WATER - THE NEW OIL ?
- Task E1: The reality of the situation
- Task E2: Natural water stores
- Task E3: Supply and Demand
- Task E4: Azraq - Dwindling lake
- Task E5: Changing Demand and Supply
- Task E6: Water crisis in the making?
- Task E7: Irrigation
- Task E8: D.I.
- Task E9: The Future
- Task E10: Water Footprints
SECTION F: FARMING PRACTICES
- Task F1: Climatic factors
- Task F2: case study: Al-A'tal Fruit Farm
- Task F3: Anageed Al-Khair Co-operative Farm
- Task F4: Sustainability model
- Task F5: Range lands (managing the open grazings)
- Task F6: Why did a flower make a lot of people happy?
- Task F7: Pressure on land and the resourses (Desertification)
SECTION G: NATURAL RESOURCES
- Task G1: Locating Mineral resources
- Task G2: Prospecting for oil shales
- Task G3: Locating a solar or wind farm
- Task G4: Power for the Fruit farm
SECTION H: TOURISM
- Task H1: Planning a visit to Jordan
- Task H2: Planning a visit to the N.E. Badia (Sustainable Tourism 2)
- Task H3: Developing sustainable tourism in the Badia ( Sustainable Tourism 2)
- Task H4: Developing your own tourist site (Sustainable tourism development)
- Task H5: Developing a N.E. Badia Trail ( Eco- tourism)
- Task H6: A community trail (Eco-tourism)
- Task H7: Investigating wilderness
- Task H8: Pulling it all Together
