Biome Cards of North America - Deserts

As part of our Native American Legends block (Waldorf grade 2), we are using the Biome Cards from Waseca Biomes. These are wonderful three-part cards (name, illustration, facts) with symbols on the back so that students can first try to match them and then independently check their own work.

The colorful border around the edge matches the colors of the Montessori Colored Globe of the Continents. North America is the orange continent.

I are using these cards in a small group setting, to introduce the new biome before we hear some legends that take place in it. The children were very familiar with the animals of the Temperate Forest of North America (the biome we live in), and much less familiar with the animals of other places.

These biome cards have a plant, an invertebrate, a fish, an amphibian, a reptile, a bird, and a mammal. They are available for ALL of the continents!

Although I love pairing the Native American Legends with these cards, I also keep thinking of other resources that connect with them, in case students use them for research and reports in later years. Now I'd like to make a list of all the cards in each set, so that I can keep my notes organized here.

Deserts

saguaro cactus

Cactus Hotel
by Brenda Guiberson


Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus
by Barbara Bash

desert tarantula

the scientific name they have listed is the Arizona Blond Tarantula (Aphonopelma chalcodes


Spiders Spin Webs
by Yvonne Winer
Mexican red-kneed tarantula (Brachypelma smithii)

Nevada pupfish

western spadefoot

Dig, Wait, Listen: A Desert Toad's Tale
by April Pulley Sayre

gila monster

roadrunner

coyote

Coyotes
by Wildfrid S. Bronson

Here, by the way, is the complete list of the People of the Biomes cards.

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