Classroom Components for Deserts

The following activities are a menu with very “in general” suggestions of what learning style or intelligence might be touched.

 

Books(Linguistic):

·          Gray, Susan H. Deserts. Minneapolis, Minn.:Compass Point Books, 2001.

·          Guiberson, Brenda Z. Cactus Hotel. New York, Ny: Henry Holt and Company, 1991.

·          Rau, Dana Meachen. Visit the Desert. Vero Beach, Fla: The Rourke Press, 2000.

·          Sabin, Louis. Wonders of the Desert. USA:Troll Communications, 2001.

·          Stille, Darlene R. Deserts. NewYork, NY: Children’s Press, 1999.

·          Wadsworth, Ginger. Desert Discoveries. Watertown, Mass: Charlesbridge Publishing, 1997.

·          Wright-Frierson, Virginia. A Desert Scrapbook. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster Books, 1996.

·          Yolen, Jane. Welcome to the Sea of Sand. New York, NY: The Putnam and Grosset Group, 1996.

Other books available at school:

·          Newbridge Big Book: “Life in the Desert.”

 

Videos(Visual/Spatial):

·          JWM Productions, Director. “All About the Deserts and Grasslands.” (video) Wynnewood, PA: Schlessinger Media, 2001.

·          “Desert Biomes:Essential and Endangered.” Rainbow Educational Media, 1998.

Websites:

·          http://www.nps.gov/moja/mojaan.htm

·          http://www.nisd.net/blattman/links/1/desert/1_desert.htm

·          http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/desert/index.htm

·          http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/desert/index.htm

·          http://www.nisd.net/boone/Projects/Desert/desertsubsampler.htm

 

Research sites teacher guides students through these sites to do the Desert Field guide:

·          http://www.blm.gov/education/sonoran/plants.html

·          http://www.blm.gov/education/sonoran/creature_feature.html

·          http://www.blm.gov/education/sonoran/animal.html.

Whole group activities-(ST)( Could use any of the intelligences, please list):