Learn About Desert Animals And Plants
Students can learn about how desert animals and plants survive in the desert. The hot, dry dusty desert is home to spiky cacti and other plants. Birds, snakes, lizards, and roadrunners are some of the animals that live in this habitat. How have plants and animals adapted to live in the desert?
Locate World Deserts
As a social studies and geography link, study a map together as a class. Look for the major deserts in the world. Which continent has the most deserts? Which continent does not have any deserts? Where is the largest desert in the world? Deserts are dry areas that receive little precipitation, but that deserts can be found in surprising places.
Did you know that there are both cold and hot deserts? What continents have cold deserts? Does their pattern of rainfall differ from hot deserts? Polar deserts are arid regions that receive a little snow. Deserts can also be found the mountains. Have students research world deserts and how the people and animals who live there have adapted to the climate.
Create A Desert Habitat
Have students create a desert habitat in a container using sand, soil, rocks, and cacti. This activity helps students understand how plants and animals adapt to their environment.
Study Desert Food Webs
A food web shows who eat who in a habitat. Learn about producers who make their own food, and consumers who get their food by eating other organisms.
Create A Flipbook Research Report
Write about what you have learned in this five-page flipbook! Each page has lines for writing and a placeholder to draw a picture!
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Want To Have Your Desert Study Prepped?
Grab my Desert Habitat resource! It includes all the pages featured above and more. Students will love reading about the desert with the included 10-page interactive nonfiction reader. Interspersed throughout the reader are fun, educational activities. The students then show their learning in their desert research flipbook! Everything is prepped and ready to print.
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