Desert plants and animals are buddies. They rely on each other for their survival. Students discover how saguaros and Gila woodpeckers, creosote bushes and ground squirrels, and palo verde trees and pocket mice are buddies.
- Draw a picture to describe how desert plants and animals depend on each other
- Use a thermometer and record the data
- Recognize that other living things live in their habitat
- Explain that living things are interconnected in the environment
- Deduce the outcome of removing a type of living thing from the habitat
- Identify a saguaro, palo verde, creosote, gila woodpecker, pocket mouse, and ground squirrel
- Buddies Fun booklet
- Saguaro boot
- Animal Stickers
- Thermometer
- Cactus fruit
- Cactus cross-section
- Life-size puppet mouse
- Palo Verde seeds
