alicechristie.org
 

We live in Arizona in the desert. Here it is very hot and very dry.

We will learn what plants grow in the Arizona desert.We will learn how plants grow in such a hot and dry place.

After we study desert plants, we
will each:

• design & write a desert postcard
• make graphs about desert plants
• draw a desert plant
• write a desert plant story
• invite our parents to a desert plant celebration

Desert plants grow all around us in Arizona. In this KidQuest, we:

1. Look at photos of desert plants
2. Gather information about desert plants
3. Create a desert plant postcard
4. Create some graphs about the colors and types of desert plants we see
5. Draw a desert plant as it looks in winter and summer
6. Write a desert plant story
7. Share our pictures, stories and graphs with our parents and other kids in our school and in Arizona

Let's look at photos of many desert plants

Let's gather information about desert plants

Other Links

• PopBrain Desert Movie
• The Water Cycle

Our desert plant projects:

• Postcards
• Graphs
• Pictures
• Stories

Process Rubric

Product Rubric

What Did I Learn?

Here are some places on the Internet we can go to learn more about desert plants:

• Desert Plant Word Search
• Desert Plants and Wildflowers

Online Resources

• The Desert is Ours: A WebQuest on the Sonoran Desert
• Deserts: A WebQuest for Third Grade
• The Desert Botanical Garden
• Saguaro National Park
• Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
• The Desert Environment
• Desert Plants & Wildflowers
• Nature Conservancy: Sonoran Desert Ecoregion
• Dr. Alice Christie's Spreadsheet and Graphing Page
• Desert Ecology Scavenger Hunt
• Activity for The Desert is Theirs by Byrd Baylor: Making a Desert Plant/Animal Guide Book
  

Coming Soon: lesson objectives, links to content area state standards, links to technology state standards , expected timeline for the KidQuest, hints for managing this KidQuest.