Summary of Desert Related Web Sites
1. http://www.desertusa.com/life.html
This site features desert plants and animals, minerals, geology, people and cultures of the Sonoran Desert. Students can see desert creatures up close. Students can find out how the desert looks before and after it rains. Students can see photos of wildflowers in bloom. There is also weather information available.
This is the museum that features the Sonoran Desert. It is a natural history museum and botanical garden. It has school programs, tortoise adoption program, and photos of the desert in bloom.
3.http://www.ontheline.org.uk/explore/nature/deserts/deserts.htm
This site features plant and animal life, climate, landscape, and geography that make deserts distinctive. This sites addresses conservation issues also.
4. http://www.mrdowling.com/611-deserts.html
This site is an education based site. There are lesson plans, experiments available on the African deserts such as the Kalahari, Namib, and the Sahara.
5. http://members.aol.com/QuestSite/1/
This is an interactive web site for elementary and middle school teachers. Ecoquest was structured to introduce students to internet research and multimedia design.
6. http://horizon.nmsu.edu/ddl/wqdesertworlds_k.html
This site has deserts of the world, lesson plans, compares desert regions of the world, discusses cultures, desert people, animals, plants, and compares desert peoples of the worldÕs deserts.
7. http://livingdesert.org/home.html
This site is a conservation related site, dedicated to preserving desert ecosystems from around the world. There is an online tour of 400 desert animals, and10 different plant ecosystems.
8. http://drylands.nasm.edu:1995/
This is an electronic exhibit of the worldÕs dry lands and shows the environments people live in and threats they may face.