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Desert Ecosystems
Introduce your class to the desert ecosystems using this colorful and informative presentation. This resource discusses desert plants and animals. It also identifies the deserts in the Southwest region of the United States. There are...
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Deserts
What is it like in the desert? Inform your class on what makes a desert, the type of climate they'll find there, and the interesting plant and animals that live in the desert environment. This is a text-rich presentation that will...
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Unit Plan Template
Learners research the adaptations of desert animals and build their research skills. In this the adaptations of desert animals lesson, young scholars describe major factors that desert animals have on their habitat. Learners...
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The Sonoran Desert
Little learners examine a map of the southwestern United States and identify the Sonoran Desert. They locate different cities and rivers, determining whether or not each is found within this special ecosystem. A student handout is...
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In the Desert
Students explore earth science by completing several environment activities. For this desert lesson, students identify where the U.S. deserts are and what types of wild life inhabit them. Students utilize arts and crafts to create a...
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What Lives in the Deserts?
In this desert learning exercise, students will investigate the factors that make a desert by completing four different desert fact questions.
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Animals of the Desert: Research
In this desert animals research worksheet, students prepare to write a report on a desert animal. Students read the list of animals, choose one and do the research to answer 8 questions about this animal.
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Desert Creepy Crawlies- Research Skills
In this science worksheet, learners research information about 4 desert animals and write facts on the lines. Students write information about the Hercules Beetle, Harvester Ants, Giant Red Velvet Mites and Yucca Moths.
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Desert Animal Cards
In this desert animals vocabulary worksheet, students see and study 28 cards containing a name of a desert animal. There are no directions.
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Desert Animals
First graders investigate and identify a variety of animals that live in the desert. They complete a class KWL chart, then listen to the book Way Out in the Desert. Next, 1st graders observe a presentation of live desert animals, and...
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Desert Animals
Young scholars survive within an ecosystem, an animal must be physically and behaviorally adapted to the conditions of its environment.
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Animals and their Habitats
This animal habitat PowerPoint provides beautiful photographs of a rainforest, desert, and grassland habitat, as well as animals native to a rainforest and the desert. The first slide lists rainforest, desert, tundra, and grassland as...