Travel with your students on a virtual field trip and explore the deserts of the world! This is site is interactive and informative.

Learn about the four types of deserts: hot and dry, semiarid, coastal, and cold with this key facts and information. Includes links to other biomes: aquatic, forest, grasslands, and tundra.

Our Africa is a project that allows the children of Africa to film their lives and their country the way they see them. This section describes the varied climate of Africa and includes videos on agriculture, the Kalahari Desert, and...

Not all deserts are the same. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features views of different deserts around the world.

Niger is a country on the edge of the Sahara desert. This BBC profile includes an overview of the country's history, demographic and economic facts, information on its leaders and a listing of its communications media.

A stylized relief map of Africa, showing the Sahara, major rivers and lakes, mountains, "wild country," and other features. The Sahara is labeled as "The Great Desert that No Man Could Cross." with pyramids and temples drawn along the...

The site includes eighteen interconnected lakes in the hyper arid Ennedi region of the Sahara desert covering an area of 62,808 ha. It constitutes an exceptional natural landscape of great beauty with striking colours and shapes. The...

A map of the major drainage basins of the African continent indicating the hydrologic flow to the Atlantic and Gulf of Guinea, the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, and the interior basins of the Sahara and Kalahari deserts...

Explore the sands of the Arab world and the Sahara by reading personal accounts and histories about the people, religion, and culture of the region.

This resource provides information on a project being done to make molds of one of the oldest pieces of African rock art, a Sahara giraffe carving.

Use this site to find out how deserts are formed, where the largest desert is located and if there are different types of deserts.

Explore the lives of the Algerian people through a virtual journey while learning facts and figures on the country. Gain information on such topics as sports, art, music, daily life, food, history, geography, environment, and more.

Features a broad country profile of the West African nation of Mali, background details, and numerous links to extensive information on the nation's culture, history, geography, economy, environment, population, news, government, and...

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.

This is a brief overview of the geography of Morocco, including information about the climate, terrain, and natural resources. Information is from the CIA World Fact Book.

Learn about the geography of the world's deserts such as the Sahara, Arabian, Gobi, and Mohave on this website.

Lists reasons we should be concerned about desertification and discusses how the Sahel region south of the Sahara Desert is becoming desertified.

This ebook version of Paul Belloni Du Chaillu's My Apingi Kingdom: With Life In The Great Sahara, And Sketches Of The Chase Of The Ostrich, Hyena, &C. has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the...

A very brief, yet informative page in which you will find an overview of Mali, its location, geography and climate, history and people.

At this site from the United States Geological Survey, you can read an informative and scientific explanation of what deserts are and what occurs in them. View pictures of deserts and a diagram showing the distribution of deserts in Africa.

A simple explanation of the Northern Africa region of Africa, with information on the cultural history and examples of artwork.

A simple explanation of the Western Africa region of Africa, with information on the cultural history and examples of artwork.

Map of Africa in 1899 showing the colonial possessions of European powers on the continent established at the Berlin Conference of 1885. This map shows major cities and trade centers, railroad routes and canals, major river systems, and...

The Tuareg, a seminomadic, Islamic people who speak a Berber language, Tamacheq, live in the contemporary nation-states of Niger, Mali, Algeria, and Libya. They are believed to be descendants of the North African Berbers and to have...