Description
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FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS DESERT BIOME LIBRARY LESSON
- Recommended for: Grades 3-6
- Lesson Duration: 1-2 library lessons (about 50 minutes total)
- Formats: PPT or Google Slides + ability to open PDF documents
- Editable: YES, all text is editable in all three formats
***Please note that this presentation is designed to complement a desert-themed read-aloud. The actual read-aloud story comes from you! I cannot include a recorded read-aloud due to copyright restrictions.
THIS DESERT BIOME LIBRARY LESSON INCLUDES:
- 52-slide PPT + Google™ Slides library lesson presentation
- List of 28 recommended desert – themed book titles (1 page)
- Scavenger Hunt Activity (2 pages)
- Answer Key for Scavenger Hunt (1 page)
- Prep, set up, tips (6 pages)
- Detailed, pre-filled, editable lesson plan; includes CC, TEKS, and AASL Standards (2 pages)
- Google™ Classroom Basics (4 pages, PDF)
- Instructions on how to set up PPT and Google slide timings for digital bulletin boards
DESERT BIOME LIBRARY LESSON INCLUDES
- ASL sign language “desert”
- Names and locations of the world’s 5 largest deserts
- Polar deserts and hot deserts
- Desert plants and animals
- Salty deserts
- Desert adaptations
- Bactrian vs. dromedary camels
- Desert vs. dessert (spelling and mnemonic)
- Desert idioms: “dry as a bone” and “the straw that broke the camel’s back”
- Vocabulary: polar, biome, xerocoles, desertification
DESERTS MENTIONED:
- Antarctic Desert (Antarctica)
- Arctic Desert (Norway and Russia)
- Sahara (multiple North African countries)
- Gobi (China and Mongolia)
- Kalahari (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa)
- Atacama (Chile)
- Sonoran (Mexico and southwest USA)
- Chihuahua (Mexico)
- Mojave (southwest USA)
- Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia–world’s largest salt desert)
- Arabian (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Yemen)
DIFFERENTIATED DESERT BIOME SCAVENGER HUNT
- 2 versions + answer key
- Version 1 – students color the icons and objects as they find them in the presentation slides
- Version 2 – questions about the information in the slides + smaller images to find
RECOMMENDED READS
- Includes picture books, fiction, and nonfiction titles
- all have a theme of desert biomes, desert animals, and characteristics of deserts
- total of 28 titles
- includes small images from the presentation
- titles are editable, so you can customize the books included for your library
- All titles were hand-selected by a veteran school librarian for quality, diversity, positive professional reviews, and currency.
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