Curated OER
Deserts
What is it like in the desert? Inform your class on what makes a desert, the type of climate they'll find there, and the interesting plant and animals that live in the desert environment. This is a text-rich presentation that will...
Curated OER
Biomes
Arranged as an interactive lesson, this presentation focuses on the six world biomes. Upcoming biologists click on a specific biome and a slide lists its location, description, native plants, and animals. A quiz provides learners with...
Biology Junction
Land Biomes
Biomes share similar climates and ecosystems, despite being separated geographically on the planet. A presentation introduces the six most common land biomes. It focuses on the commonalities in climate, plants, and animals with many...
Curated OER
Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to Climate Change
An extensive investigation of the Earth's climate changes awaits your environmental science classes. This top-notch presentation begins by looking at the history of Earth's climate and then predicts the impact on each major terrestrial...
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Academic Raceway Ecosystems and Biomes
This ecology PowerPoint allows students to review the characteristics of each biome. There are real photographs to go along with each description of the specific biome. There is a vocabulary slide which also introduces key terms.
Curated OER
Habitats
Photographs of different habitats ask viewers to consider who would live in each. Desert, polar, rain forest, freshwater, and ocean habitats are depicted. Each is followed by a slide with pictures and color graphics of the inhabitants....
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Ecology
Explore the rainforest with this fact building PowerPoint. With 11 slides filled with biome images, this would work well with a lecture about the different types of ecosystems. Pictures of the desert, rain forest, and forest are identified.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Science for Kids: Desert Biome
Kids learn about the desert biome. The dryest areas on Earth still have plant and animal life.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Desert
Students will enjoy a general description of a desert habitat, an easy-to-understand chart of the largest deserts in the world, and brightly colored pictures and descriptions of desert animals complete with printouts. There is also a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Biomes
This interactive resource adapted from NASA describes the different temperature, precipitation, and vegetation patterns in seven biomes: coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, desert, grassland, rainforest, shrubland, and tundra.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Biomes
Discover the hidden treasures in the different habitats on the earth! The earth is filled with many biomes. Examples of different biomes are listed and include hyperlinks to additional information such as the animals found there.
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teri and Jairus: Biome Buddies
This video segment from ZOOM compares and contrasts the habitat and life forms found in Death Valley with those found in the temperate rain forest of the Pacific Northwest. [3:46]
Other
The Desert Caves Project
The Saudi Geological Society sponsors this site devoted to world desert cave exploration and geology. Includes a picture gallery, reports, bibliography, and related resources.
Other
World Biomes
World Biomes is a site covering five of the major world biomes: aquatic, desert, forest, grassland, and tundra. It gives information on the various sub-divisions of the biomes and provides numerous images.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Deserts: Lesson 3
This lesson will provide an understanding of the characteristics and role of deserts, and its effect on living things. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Deserts."
Ducksters
Ducksters: Geography for Kids: World Deserts
Learn about the geography of the world's deserts such as the Sahara, Arabian, Gobi, and Mohave on this website.
Curated OER
Bureau of Land Management: Alaska's Cold Desert
Learn about the Arctic tundra biome of Alaska. A discussion of its characteristics, and the animals and the plants that live there.
Other
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.
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Quick Look at Biomes
Check out the different types of biomes presented.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Science for Kids: World Biomes and Ecosystems
Kids learn about the world's biomes and ecosystems. The network of life and biodiversity needed for all to survive.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Boyce Thompson Arboretum
This Arizona-based state park features current information about its wildlife, wildflowers, plants and trees, gardens, and the like. Illustrated.
University of California
U.c. Berkeley Libraries: Plant Distribution Maps
This resource provides a list of online maps of world vegetation such as biomes, forests and plants.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Thinking Fountain: Habitat
Explore the basics of a few habitats and then create an ecocolumn--a simulated cross-section of a biome such as a rain forest--with your own environment.
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