Desert Animals

Although this animal and environment word search has little educational merit, it may serve as a vocabulary review tool for scholars new to these terms. The words students must find include camouflage, interdependent, muskrat, food...

Pairs of ecologists select an animal and investigate an ecosystem from its point of view. This simple activity involves Internet research and putting together a presentation of collected information. 

Learners model a food web and create a miniature ecosystem. In this animal interactions lesson plan, students engage in a role playing game which simulates a food web. Learners then build miniature ecosystems using pop bottles, snails,...

Everybody needs somebody... especially in nature! Show your young ecologists the finer points of NGSS standard LS2A, Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems, using the helpful ideas in the video. The narrator discusses the...

Students are able to identify adaptations that plants have developed to deal with harsh desert conditions, as well as explain how these adaptations help to protect these plants.

Students identify animal tracks outdoors. In this animal life lesson, students go outdoors and find several different animal tracks to identify. Students also discuss how animals must adapt in the winter months.

Humans aren't the only species to build structures with air conditioning—we weren't even the first! The video explains how a variety of species that live under and above ground design their structures to allow for air circulation. It...

Students obtain remote sensing data to compare and contrast global biomass data with global temperature data.

Do you know the difference between a biome and an ecosystem? Teach elementary ecologists exactly what a biome is with this captivating cartoon! It discusses six biomes: taiga, tundra, deciduous forest, desert, tropical rainforest, and...

Describes conditions in a desert that limit how large populations of species can grow.