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Center for Educational Technologies

Earth Floor: Desert Biome: Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
Site provides information on desert animals and animal adaptations. Offers links to desert plants and their adaptations, other biomes, and more.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum: Animal Fact Sheet: Bobcat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This fact sheet on the bobcat provides details on physical characteristics, adaptations, range, habitat, conservation, diet, and other interesting facts. Click the link to hear how a bobcat sounds.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum: Animal Fact Sheet: Anna's Hummingbird

For Students 9th - 10th
This fact sheet on Anna's hummingbird provides details on physical characteristics, adaptations, range, habitat, conservation, diet, and other interesting facts. Click the link to hear how Anna's hummingbird sounds.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum : Animal Fact Sheet: Desert Tortoise

For Students 9th - 10th
Animal fact sheet on the desert tortoise includes appearance, adaptations, habitat, range, conservation, diet, fun facts, and more.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum : Animal Fact Sheet: Mule Deer

For Students 9th - 10th
Animal fact sheet on the mule deer includes appearance, adaptations, habitat, range, conservation, diet, fun facts, and more.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum : Animal Fact Sheet: Gila Monster

For Students 9th - 10th
Animal fact sheet on the Gila monster includes appearance, adaptations, habitat, range, conservation, diet, fun facts, and more. Be sure to listen to the Gila monster sounds.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum : Animal Fact Sheet: Harris Hawk

For Students 9th - 10th
Animal fact sheet on the Harris hawk includes appearance, adaptations, habitat, range, conservation, diet, fun facts, and more.
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum : Animal Fact Sheet: Gray Fox

For Students 9th - 10th
This fact sheet on the gray fox provides details on physical characteristics, adaptations, range, habitat, conservation, diet, and other extra-fun facts.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Plant and Animal Habitats

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson explains plant and animal habitats with brilliant pictures and photos. It also includes discussion and non-Activote questions.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Hall of Mammals: Scimitar Horned Oryx

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief overview of the Scimitar-horned oryx and accompanying photos demonstrate the physical adaptations that allow this animal to survive the desert heat.
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Lincoln Park Zoo

Lincoln Park Zoo: Bactrian Camel

For Students 9th - 10th
Get the facts about the Bactrian Camel. Information includes where it lives in the wild, its niche environment, what its diet consists of, what it looks like as well as its reproduction habits.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:namib: The Sidewinder and the Sidewinder

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Define the concept of parallelism using the Sidewinder of the desert Southwest and the Sidewinder of the Namib. Illustrate the tracks left by the unusual adaptation of the Sidewinder of the Namib.