Discover a Variety of  Animal Adaptations in the Desert

Go on an extraordinary adventure to explore the hottest deserts in the world and the amazing animals that call them home. The Teach Starter team has been busy creating resources to help you teach your little learners how animals survive in such harsh conditions and thrive in the desert environment. Add these fun resources to your animal adaptations lesson plans and take your students on an incredible journey to discover the beauty of desert animals and all the intriguing desert animal adaptations that help them survive.

Desert Animal Adaptations Trading Card Templates

This printable resource includes a variety of printable templates designed for your students to research and record their learning about the adaptations held by animals that live in deserts around the world. Each template is designed to mimic a trading card and includes space to describe the animal, its habitat, eating habits, and adaptations that help it survive. We’ve included trading card templates for the following animals that live in the desert.

 

• Frill-necked lizard

• Fennec fox

• Desert Tortoise

• Sidewinder Rattlesnake

• Camel Spider

• Gila Monster

• Deathstalker Scorpion

• Dromedary Camel

• Bilby

• King’s Skink

• Thorny Devil Lizard

• Sand Goanna

 

Download and Print Your Desert Adaptation Trading Cards

This resource is available in the following printable and editable formats. Click the dropdown arrow on the download button to select your preferred file.

• Full Colour or Grayscale PDF With Pictures
• BW PDF Without Pictures
• Full Colour or Grayscale Google Slides With Pictures
• BW Google Slides Without Pictures

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