- Deserts
(upper elementary)
-
Afro-American
Folktales - http://www.toptags.com/aama/tales/tales.htm- Includes: How the Desert
Came Into the World; The Tortoise and the Eagle; Why There Is Day and Night;
Why Women Do Not Have Beards; Why the Sun Lives in the Sky; Tortoise, the
Birds, and the Feasts; Three Fast Men; Which Hunter Will Be the Hero?; and
more.
- Animal
Habitats - http://www.greeceny.com/ls/grade4/
- This main page has links to
the 4th grade class projects of the Lakeshore Elementary School. The
habitats covered include the arctic, the desert, the jungle and the sea.
- Arid
Biomes - http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog101/aridbiom/index.htm
- Detailed maps and photos of
arid biomes, including desert, tundra, savannah.
- Ballarat
Ghost Town - http://www.fieler.com/ballarat/
- Take a trip back through
time and visit one of the Mojave Desert's most historic ghost towns.
- Desert
Life in the American Southwest - http://www.desertusa.com/life.html
- Begin your exploration of
the American Southwest with a general introduction to the complex and
delicate desert ecosystems, including a discussion of the roles humans play
in the changing desert environment.
- Deserts
and the Sahel - http://www.mrdowling.com/611-deserts.html
- Brief information about the
African deserts and the Sahel -- the land that separates the desert from the
savanna. Includes links to more information.
- Discoverers
and Explorers - http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Discoverers.html
- In 1800, the American West
was still wild country--no cities, no railroads and no cattle ranches yet
existed. It was quiet and untouched. People in the eastern U.S. had heard
stories about the western mountains and the desert, but no Euro-American had
been there. Within a very short time that would all change.
EcoQuest
: Desert Edition - http://members.aol.com/QuestSite/1/index.html
- The desert is often looked
at as a wasteland, dead, void of life. Many people pass through this area
without noticing the wealth of life and possibilities which exist behind its
dry, rock-ridden mask. Begin your tour with a visit to two desert locations
and examine this place we call the Mojave Desert.
- Kalahari
Desert - http://www.suedafrika.net/kalahari/e6kala05.htm
- The Kalahari desert is part
of the huge sand basin that reaches from the Orange River up to Angola, in
the west to Namibia and in the east to Zimbabwe
- Living
Africa - The Sarah Desert - http://library.thinkquest.org/16645/the_land/sahara_desert.shtml
- Where can find ostriches and
gerbils, go up over 3,000 miles or 133 miles below sea level? The Sarah
Desert. Find these and other amazing facts from Thinkquest.
- Prairie
Dogs (Desert USA) - http://www.desertusa.com/dec96/du_pdogs.html
- Learn about the prairie dog
at this site from Desert USA
- SCORPIONS
- http://www.desertusa.com/oct96/du_scorpion.html
- This site contains pictures
and information about scorpions. There are links to other desert dwelling
creatures.
- THE
PAIUTE PEOPLE of the Great Basin Desert - http://www.desertusa.com/ind1/du_peo_paiute.html
- Brief facts about the tribe,
also known as the Numa, from Desert USA.
- Virtual
Field Trip : Mali - http://www.care.org/virtual_trip/mali/
- Modern-day Mali evolved out
of a long, illustrious history of vast and culturally rich empires centered
around the lush inland delta of the Niger River. At its peak, the medieval
Mali empire was the one of the world's chief gold suppliers. Tombouctou,
gateway to the Sahara Desert, was a renowned center for trade, culture and
Islamic learning.
Jeffrey
Branzburg
Supervisor of Instructional Technology
Lawrence Public Schools
Lawrence, NY
jbranzburg@lawrence.k12.ny.us
