National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Bactrian Camel
Great site for youngers researching the Bactrian camel. Video clip, photos, and easy to read facts about habitat, young, enemies, food, adaptation to environment, and humps!
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Desert Gold: Desert Animals, Plants, and Rock Formation
This resource provides information about desert animals, plants, and rock formations.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Animals of the Desert
Learn about different types of animals that live in the desert biome such as the cactus wren, the desert lark, the dingo, the fat sand rat, the fennec fox, the Gila monster, and so on. Animal pictures and information is taken from the...
Oxfam
Oxfam's Cool Planet: Animals of the Desert
Resource looks at the different types of insects, mammals, reptiles, and birds found in the desert and the strategies they use for survival.
Read Works
Read Works: Cool in the Hot Desert
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about the fennec fox and how it stays cool in the hot African desert. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy: Planet Earth: Deserts and Aridlands
The desert areas in the United States that this organization is working to protect are portrayed through photographs and videos, showing the beauty of the landscapes and the diversity of life forms there.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: The Desert
Learn about the plants and animals that live in the desert. Book includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Spring Comes to the Desert
Learn about springtime in the desert and the plants and animals that live there. Book includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.
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Whozoo: Desert Horned Viper
Special adaptations of the Desert Horned Viper are featured on the WHOZOO website. This endangered species lives in the sand and rocks of the deserts of North Africa, Israel, Arabia, and the Sinai peninsula.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Desert Elephants
In this video from Nature, observe elephants trek across the desert to an isolated waterhole. [4:13]
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Night Creatures of the Kalahari
Click on animals that can see in the dark and learn more about them.
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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.
Science Daily
Science Daily: Discovery of New Fossils in Gobi Desert
Internet science magazine ScienceDaily discusses fossils found in the Gobi desert, even dinosaur fossils.
Read Works
Read Works: Cool in the Hot Desert
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is about the fennec fox that lives in the African desert. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Cold Deserts of the World
A chart summarizes the sizes, physical features, plant and animal life, and special facts of a selection of the world's cold deserts, including Antarctica, the Gobi, and the Great Basin Desert in the western United States.
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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.
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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...
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Coyotes
Learn all about coyotes on this great multi-media site. Video and audio clips, fun facts and great pictures make this a good National Geographic site for research projects.
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Floor: Biomes: Desert Plants
Site contains information on desert plants and plant adaptations. Offers links to biomes, a biome summary, how to read a climograph and more!
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sonoran Desert
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction/review of the climate, the plant life and the animals of the Sonoran Desert. Students will use Activotes, the eraser tool and the pen tool to answer questions about how...
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...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Feed the Dingo
Help build the Australian desert ecosystem by filling it with appropriate plants and animals.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Vampire Bats
Great multi-media site from the National Geographic Society with great information, pictures and video of Vampire Bats. Sections include fun facts, video, audio, a map and send a postcard.
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