Deserts

A teaching unit from United States Fish & Wildlife Service on the sagebrush ecosystem.

NASA has a great website about biomes — lessons, cross curricular activities and real world applications.

If you are fortunate enough to be able to visit the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, then this site has great teaching tools for your visit.

Here is a great resource on desert plants lessons for kids.

Desert Biomes — lots of background information about deserts including a great world map that shows some of the distribution of deserts on the earth.

Desert facts for kids.

This resource from Tulane University has some great resources for teachers to explain weathering and erosion on a desert landscape.