This week we will begin researching desert ecosystems. The kiddos did a fabulous job research rainforest and wrote excellent non-fiction writing pieces!
The kids will be researching..
What is it like in a desert ecosystem? (Thinking about the climate at night vs during the day, cold deserts?)
Animals of the desert
The third sub-heading I want them to research is totally up to them. What interests them about the desert?
Resources
Eyewitness Video--Deserts Seen in class, students took notes
Desert USA--Desert Life
http://www.desertusa.com/life.html
Desert Wikipedias Site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert
Enchanted Learning Deserts
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/desert/desert.shtml
Desert Slideshow
http://www.slideshare.net/Michellesoto/3rd-grade-ecosystem
National Geographic Site on Deserts
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/desert-profile/
The Sonoran Desert, Arizona Upland
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/exploring_ecosystems/desert.html
Desert Food Chain
http://www.world-builders.org/lessons/less/biomes/desert/hot-desert-chain.html
Animals of the Desert--great pictures not much info
http://mlbean.byu.edu/Portals/26/docs/Desert%20Adaptations.pdf
People living in the Desert
https://sites.google.com/site/geographysaharadesert/how-people-ive-in-the-sahara-desert
and
http://library.thinkquest.org/26634/desert/people.htm
Death Valley
1) http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/death-valley-national-park/
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley
Plants of the Desert
1) http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/desert_plant_page.htm
2)
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