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- 7th - Higher Ed
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Students, in school and at field-based sites, investigate the characteristics and history of deserts. They create a tabletop replica of a desert environment. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students examine and categorize plants in their own schoolyard desert garden and then observe other plant areas of their schoolyard. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students use vegetation content cards to locate their zone in the GeoSphere picture. They list the continents where it is found and report to the class. They use the information to write a description of life in their zone. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students recognize native species of desert vegetation while examining the need for water conservation. They design and create a xeriscape landscape using a variety of materials. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine how animals keep cool in the desert. They participate in experiments to demonstrate how the animals keep cool. They answer questions to end the lesson. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students watch a video that describes the climate and vegetation zones of Hawaii. They describe the different physical conditions that create vegetation zones from the sea to the mountains. In groups, they create an illustrated Hawaiian Zonation map. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students explore the four different deserts in the United States and their characteristics. They discuss the four different types of deserts in United States and their characteristics, and locate them on a map. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the health and safety risks associated with a desert environment and identify measures necessary for desert survival. They listen to a teacher-led lecture and take notes. In small groups they write a short story that includes how the person should have gotten out of danger using survival skills. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss biomes and the worlds major biomes. Working in groups, they conduct research on a biome in order to create a map of the biome that includes the location, a color-coded system indicating climate and vegetation, and a representation of the animals that live in the biome. When maps are complete, they write a descriptive paragraph about their biome and present their map and research to the class. Full Review »
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- 1st - 6th
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Students read both fiction and nonfiction books with desert themes. Then they write desert stories and reports, reviewing texts for information to include in writing. Students also design desert scenes with details and setting elements imagined while reading. Finally, they research specific animals of the desert such as bats, rabbits, snakes, birds, spiders, scorpions, and beetles and draw animals and their desert homes. Full Review »