• Species List Handout, one per student
• Internet access for research, for all students
• large sheets of drawing paper
• reference books for researching these desert species; suggested titles:

House in the Sun: A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert by George Olin

A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert by Steven J. Phillips (editor), Patricia Wentworth Comus (editor)

Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum Book of Answers by David Wentworth Lazaroff