Desert Adventures
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Lesson Overview
Pack your bags and get ready for an incredible journey across the Sahara desert — a land of golden dunes, rocky plains, and endless sunshine! Discover how hot the Sahara can get, what life looks like in this dry, mysterious world, and meet amazing desert animals with clever ways to stay cool, find water, and survive where almost nothing grows
Learning Outcomes
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The temperature and climate of the Sahara desert
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What the desert environment looks like (sand dunes, oases)
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The survival skills of desert animals such as the camel, fennec fox, and addax antelope
Branching Slides
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Decide which animal to learn about and discover its features and survival skills.
What's your name?
Winners 1-5:
Type the correct answers! Be fast!
Welcome to a very hot place!
Let's learn about this place and animals that live here to get stickers!
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Tom
Jessica
We are in the...
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forest
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mountains
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desert
https://www.shutterstock.com/search/sahara?image_type=photo
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/hot-desert-world-vector-illustration-2224307863
The Sahara is the biggest hot desert.
https://elements.envato.com/beautiful-sand-dunes-in-the-sahara-desert-at-sunse-4Z8UCQU
It's +38°C in Sahara during the day!
But what's the temperature here at night?
What is the temperature here at night?
-4°C
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+50°C
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-4°C
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-40°C
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Brrr, it's cold in the Sahara at night.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/lakes-empty-quarter-desert-saudi-arabia-2261113193
Look, water!
A place in the desert with water
and plants is...
a pool
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a volcano
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an oasis
How many oases are there in the Sahara desert?
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9
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90
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900
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90
Look! What's this?
This is a...
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horse
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panda
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camel
hump
What does a camel have in its hump?
water
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hot chocolate
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I use this fat for energy when I don't have food.
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fat
DESIGN: could you please help with a better image for 'fat'?
When a camel is thirsty, how much water can it drink?
2 litres
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20 litres
200 litres
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/camel-walking-on-desert-dune-2136002845
200 litres! It's like a bathtub!
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B
Which animal would you like to see next?
Fennec fox
Addax Antelope
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/fennec-fox-69705385
A fennec fox is the size of a...
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elephant
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bear
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cat
I am the smallest fox!
ears
Why does a fennec fox have big ears?
to fly
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1
to listen to music
to stay cool
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heat
DESIGN: could you please add the arrows to illustrate how heat goes to the fennec's ears and then goes away. Here is a chat GPT example, but the arrows are random here.
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true
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false
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true
An addax antelope can live without drinking water!
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/adult-addax-walking-sahara-desert-known-2500032117
An addax antelope gets water when it eats!
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/white-antelope-addax-nasomaculatus-known-screwhorn-1331179625
What does an addax antelope eat?
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sand
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ice cream
plants
Which Sahara desert animal do you like?
A
camel
B
fenec fox
C
Addax antelope
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