The Desert

This site contains desert: songs, art activities, science activities,
games, snacks, and miscellaneous activities on a preschool level.

A few links to desert sites: animal and plant poems, invent a desert
critter, desert homes ( A study of native New Mexican cultures and their
homes), desert adaptations (of animals), deserts of the world, and
deserts of the USA ( Information about deserts, desert animals, and
people who live in the desert).

Desert Theme Unit: animal and plant life research forms, creepy
crawlies, a camel unit, poetry, similes, vocabulary words, word
searches, main deserts of the world, comparing deserts report form,
outline map, habitat activities, a science experiment: evaporation, and
etc.

Day and Night in the Desert: A science lesson.

Deserts Theme: formation, landscapes, climate, world deserts, animals,
plants, people, and teacher resources.

A desert diorama to print out and assemble.

A desert plants worksheet.

A second grade desert unit with center activities.

A picture of a cactus to color.

Desert Animal Survival - Deserts USA. Also contains links to desert:
plants and people survival, ,minerals and geology, animals and wildlife,
plants/wildflowers, and people and cultures.

This page contains links to articles about various U.S. deserts.

Many links to web sites about deserts. A good page to explore for
various aspects of desert information.

Many links to desert web sites from Yahooligans.

Threatened and endangered plants and animals from the Sonoran Desert to
color. Each coloring page contains a few facts about the plant of
animal depicted on that page. There is a link to fact sheets on this
page which give more information on each plant or animal and also
features a picture of the plant or animal which shows you how to color
it.

Coloring pages of animals to print and color from the Nevada Department
of Wildlife.

Links to information on birds, cultural resources, geology, mammals,
plant communities, and reptiles and amphibians of Red Rock Canyon
representing some of the best examples of these subjects in the Mojave
Desert.

Teacher Resources featuring "More on the Mojave", lesson plans (by grade
level - There is a lot of useful material here.), trail booklets, and
educational links.

A 116 page booklet about "Desert Plants of Utah" with information about
and a small black and white drawing of each plant.

An early elementary lesson plan in which children create and label a
picture of the Sahara Desert. Includes links to three desert sites.

Photos and information about animals that live in the Sahara Desert.
This site also contains links to Sahara: geography, people ( Here you
can find out how the changing climate over the centuries affected the
lives and activities of the people. This site has information on
tribes, politics, myths, religion, and has audio music clips.), travel,
behind the scenes activities in making the film ("Sahara"), and
resources (web links, etc.).

Information on the Great Basin Desert.

This page lists desert activities, a book list, video and software
lists, and links to related themes.

Six links to lesson plan sites about items that come from or are used in
the desert.

A 19 page desert unit booklet in PDF format (You need to have Adobe
Reader installed on your computer.) from the Denver Public Schools
designed for Early Childhood and Kindergarten students. Based upon the
Sonoran Desert of the southwestern United States this unit of activities
addresses "What is a desert? "Animals and plants of the desert",
"Where are deserts located?", and the "Climate of the desert".