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Desert Biome
Students examine the vocabulary of desert animals and observe pictures of the animals as they name them. As a class, students compare and contrast the characteristics of desert animals. Using a specified website, students match...
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Deserts Around the World
Second graders explore the deserts around the world. They use a map and locate America on the map. Students discuss and identify the characteristics of deserts and differentiate the meanings of the word desert and dessert. Students...
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A Virtual Museum of the Mojave Desert
Learners study deserts and the plants, animals, and people who inhabit them. In groups, they create their own stories about the inhabitants of the Mojave desert.
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What Lives in the Deserts?
In this desert worksheet, students will investigate the factors that make a desert by completing four different desert fact questions.
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Desert Creepy Crawlies- Research Skills
In this science worksheet, students 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 Water Keepers
Third graders identify ways that cactus plants survive in the desert. They distinguish between water acquisition and water conservation and create their own plant that could survive in a desert climate.
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Desert Plants
In this desert plants worksheet, students read five passages about desert plants and answer the five comprehension questions that follow each one.
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Desert Adaptations: Water
Learners experiment with methods of water conservation. For this water conservation lesson, students explore the importance of water for plants and animals in a desert biome.
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Research: Habitats in the Chihuahuan Desert
In this desert habitat worksheet, learners follow the links to research information about the Chihuahua desert. Students fill out the graphic organizer with facts about the habitat, animals and plants of this region.
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Sonoran Desert
In this Sonoran Desert worksheet, students read and analyze a letter that Jeremy wrote to his grandmother and then complete the picture that follows using information about the desert they learned from the letter.
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The Desert Alphabet Book
Students use a book to discover an interesting fact from the desert using each letter of the alphabet. Using a United States map, they identify the meanings of symbols and locate deserts within the U.S. In groups, they participate in...
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Desert Animal Cards
In this desert animals vocabulary worksheet, learners see and study 28 cards containing a name of a desert animal. There are no directions.
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World Deserts
In this social studies worksheet, students match the 23 deserts by filling in the blank with the correct continent for the location. The desert and the continent need to correlate to be the right answer.
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Desert Poetry
In this desert poetry worksheet, students use the letters in DESERT to begin each line of an acrostic poem about the desert. Students cut out the poem, mount it on colored paper and design a border.
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Word Search: Common Desert Plants
In this science worksheet, students locate the names of 15 desert plants in a word search puzzle. The word bank has a realistic, detailed color picture for each plant name.
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Desert Word Unscramble
In this language arts and science worksheet, students analyze 10 scrambled words that pertain to the desert. Students unscramble the words, then pick four words and write a sentence for each.
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Desert Report
In this desert report worksheet, learners research a desert in the United States and one in another part of the world. Students use the Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two deserts.
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Opening Doors to Social Studies with Children's Literature: The Desert Alphabet Book
Pupils explore the geography of the United States. In this social studies lesson, students identify the major deserts on a map of the United States.
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Brain Teaser - Desert
In this logic worksheet, students solve a word problem using logic about traveling through the desert. Students complete 1 problem total.
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Shadow Know-How: Desert Plants and animals
For this science worksheet, students will identify 12 different desert plants and animals by the shape of their shadows. They are shown in their natural habitat.
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Every Day Edit - How Dry Can a Desert Get?
In this editing a paragraph worksheet, students read and edit a short paragraph on "How Dry Can a Desert Get?" and find the ten errors involving capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct the errors.
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Desert Water Keepers
Students experiment with models to find how plants survive in the desert environment. In this plant mechanisms activity, students make leaf models to understand how leaves conserve water. Students collect cactus in bags and observe the...
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Poetry Reading for ELL Beginners
Bring the imagery of the desert to your classroom with this ELL lesson plan. After reading Madeleine Dunphy’s Here in the Southwestern Desert, learners complete a graphic organizer about the features and images of the poem. The...
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Tissue Paper Geography
Students explore geographic features of the desert and apply their understanding of the topography of the desert by creating a tissue paper painting.
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