BBC
Bbc Nature: Wildlife: Desert
Explore the fascinating world of the desert and discover what lives and grows there through videos, pictures, news, and external links. Listen to the various sounds happening in the desert.
Other
Desert Natural History/sonoran Desert
Discusses the habitats in the Sonoran Desert region and the subdivisions of the Sonoran Desert (Lower Colorado River Valley, Arizona Upland, Plains of the Sonora, Central Gulf Coast, Vizcaino, Magdalena, and foothills of Sonora)....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Computer Simulation of the Sonoran Desert Community
The computer program's simulation of a Sonoran desert community should ultimately strengthen the student's comprehension of what is required for a natural ecosystem to sustain itself (remain in balance). This computer simulation program...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Science Education Center: Habitats
Explore different habitats and match them to the animals that belong there. After choosing a correct animal, click on the caption to get information about it.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Habitats of the World
This site has a lesson to use to start a unit on biomes and animal habitats. This plan incorporates grasslands, temperate forests, tropical rainforests, deserts, polar ice regions, and tidepools.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Desert Cottontail
This site created by NatureWorks focuses on the Desert Cottontail. The content of this resource includes a look at this species' characteristics, range, habitat, food, and more.
Other
National Wildlife Federation: Happenin' Habitats: What Is Habitat?
Find an overview of what a habitat is exactly. Then, for more information, click in the left hand menu for different types of habitat: forests, grasslands, deserts, wetlands, and arctic tundra. Authors also offer advice on creating a...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Cactus
Describes the physical features of different cacti, the variety of habitats where they can live, their distribution, evolution, taxonomy, and conservation status. (Published: January 10, 2011)
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Human and Animal Habitats
An interactive learning game where students answer whether or not certain environments would be suitable for different animals. Printable worksheets are available for review at the end of the activity.
PBS
Pbs Nature: Lemur
What do you know about lemurs? This site provides an insight into how lemurs live, their habitats, their social environments and more.
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life: Desert Tortoise
The Encyclopedia of Life presents this in-depth overview of Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii), including their habitats, size, conservation status, and much more. Images of this species and maps of its global distribution can also be...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Plant and Animal Habitats
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson explains plant and animal habitats with brilliant pictures and photos. It also includes discussion and non-Activote questions.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Can You Dig It?
Set in the Australian desert, players become bilbies to search at night for food while looking out for hungry predators like dingos, foxes, and swooping eagles.
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.
University of California
Ucmp: The World's Biomes
The University of California Museum of Paleontology hosts this site devoted to the study of the earth's biomes, which are the world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and adaptations of organisms to...
Other
Eco Library: Panoramas
Features amazing 360 degrees interactive panoramas for students to help them better understand ecological variation on our planet. Searchable by biome/ecosystem type, location, or ecological phenomena they depict.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: Exploring Ecosystems
Compare and contrast three very different ecosystems - the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Florida Everglades, and the Arctic Coastal Plain in Alaska. Learn what makes each of them unique, and about the adaptations plants and animals had...
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.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Terrestrial Communities
Explore land ecosystems around Earth. Learn about forests, tundra, taiga, grasslands, and deserts.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Dry Climates
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes dry climates such as the desert and steppe.
BBC
Bbc Nature Wildfacts: Coyote
Use this site to see these great photos of coyotes and learn more about them from the accompanying fact sheet.
Palomar Community College District
Major Biomes of North America
A good review of basic terminology followed by descriptions and pictures of the North American biomes.
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.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Utah's Plants and Animals Do You Know Where I Live?
Can you figure out what types of biomes different organisms belong in? You'll be presented with a variety of organisms and asked which of three biomes they belong in.
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