Curated OER
National Park Service: Explore Nature: Views: Sonoran Desert: Organ Pipe Cactus
Snapshot reference on the Sonoran Desert organ pipe cactus describes its appearance, growth, and location.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Great Green Giants
A picture book about a giant cactus called the saguaro. Includes audio narration in nine additional languages with text in English.
Other
Desert Gold: Desert Animals, Plants, and Rock Formation
This resource provides information about desert animals, plants, and rock formations.
Other
Thurston High School: Sharryl Lattion and Melissa Femrite: Biomes: Desert
Written for younger readers, this article reveals facts about animals and plants as well as health concerns for people in the desert environment.
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Tom Schweich Home Page: Vegetation in the Desert
This personal site features descriptions and photographic illustrations of California desert vegetation.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Carnivorous Plants
Learn about the characteristics, soil requirements, and prey of carnivorous plants.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Desert Biome: A Guide to Its Animals and Plants
Describes many of the plants and animals that live in deserts and their special adaptations that have enabled them to survive there. Also describes four types of deserts.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Mojave Desert Animals and Plants
Describes characteristics and adaptations of plants and animals that are able to survive in the Mojave Desert and a list of each.
The Wild Classroom
The Wild Classroom: Biomes of the World: Desert Biome
Learn all about the Desert biome. Find out about plants, animals, adaptations, and conservation efforts.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Boyce Thompson Arboretum
This Arizona-based state park features current information about its wildlife, wildflowers, plants and trees, gardens, and the like. Illustrated.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Desert Cacti: Fruit Producing "Trees"
Find out why native fruit-producing trees and shrubs are essential components of diverse habitats.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Hot Deserts of the World
Find out about the sizes, physical features, and plant and animal life of some of the world's great deserts, including the Arabian, the Great Sandy, the Chihuahuan, the Kalahari, the Mojave, the Sahara, the Sonoran, and the Thar deserts.
Curated OER
Bureau of Land Management: Alaska's Cold Desert
Learn about the Arctic tundra biome of Alaska. A discussion of its characteristics, and the animals and the plants that live there.
Palomar Community College District
Wayne's World: Desert Varnish and Lichen Crust
Lichens thrive in common and in very specialized and inhospitable climates. This clickable index site offers text and photographs of desert and mountain lichens.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 1 Wetlands, Forests & Deserts
Learn about surface terrain and how plants and animals are affected by the temperatures and precipitation.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:5 Investigation 5 Desert Dynamics
Fourth graders will understand how plants and animals adapt to their environment.
Other
Adaptations in Plants
The body features and habits of a living thing that help it to live in its surroundings is called Adaptation. [3:39]
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Explore the Outback
In this interactive game, players are challenged to complete a series of missions to photograph desert plants and animals in the Australian outback. Through the clues provided, players learn about desert ecosystems, the plants and...
Other
Greatest Places: Namib
Explore the Namib Desert and learn about its location, the Skeleton Coast, mirages, and general information about this home to the highest sand dunes in the world.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Plant Adaptations
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of how plants have adapated to their environments.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: The Special Nature of Arid Landscapes
Find out how to make the most of a desert environment in order to foster a wide array of species diversity.
PBS
Newton's Apple: Photosynthesis: How Do Plants Make Food?
This Newton's Apple activity shows students what sunlight does for plants. David explores what happens to plants when the sun is shining and when it is not. He also looks at how plants survive in the desert.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum: The Hohokam
An informative article that describes many aspects of Hohokam culture. Read about their agricultural practices, the native plants they used for medicine and clothing, and the materials they used for building their houses. See examples of...
Other
The Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens
The Centennial Museum is an academic support and outreach unit of the University of Texas at El Paso focusing on the natural history and the indigenous, colonial, pre-urban, and folk cultures of the border regions of the southwestern...
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