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Hot deserts: living with heat and drought

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  • 11 questions
  • 33 marks
  • about 30 minutes
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Find out why hot deserts are so dry, hot by day and cold at night, and how camels, cacti and fennec foxes survive heat and drought.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. The climate of a hot desert
  5. Desert survivors
  6. I Do: why are desert nights cold?
  7. Hinge Check
  8. We Do: the camel
  9. Keeping cool or saving water?
  10. Explain how plants and animals survive in hot deserts
  11. Self-Check
  12. Homework
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