Desert Biome
An exploration of Desert Biomes and Habitats appropriate for the whole family.
Includes an interactive eBook, a desert biome explorer series (audio included),
and a 360 virtual tour of a desert habitat (audio included) for upper elementary and beyond.
What makes a desert, a desert?
Explore Earth’s desert biomes and habitats with the interactive eBook.
Focus on hot deserts, their plants and animals, and the remarkable adaptations that help living things survive with little water and extreme temperatures.
Build a simplified food web for a selected desert habitat and explore how desert ecosystems work.
Explore the Earth’s deserts from the Sahara, to the Australian Outback, to Antarctica
Discover how heat from the Sun and Earth’s Hadley Cells create some of Earth’s great deserts.
Take a 360 virtual tour of a desert habitat.
Explore the Gobi Desert formed by the rain shadow effect.
Discover how the continent with 90% of the Earth’s fresh water is also its largest desert!
Video Preview of Interactive eBook
(Play to Watch)
Explore Earth’s desert habitats with this interactive eBook. Focus on hot deserts, their plants and animals, and the remarkable adaptations that help living things survive with little water and extreme temperatures.
Explore the Desert Biome
From Hot, to Polar, to in between.
An Interactive Exploration of Desert Biomes. Explore deserts from Sahara to Antarctica, the planet’s driest desert with 90% of Earth’s fresh water frozen away! What causes deserts to form? Includes audio.
Take a 360 Virtual Tour
of a Desert Habitat
Tour the Desert in 3D. Experience the actual terrain. Telescope in and out and visit the varied landscapes. Select hot-spots to learn more about the plants and animals that live in this habitat. Includes audio.