Animals Sonoran Desert 3-Part Cards – (29 desert animals)

If you’re planning a trip to the Saguaro National Park or Arizona, doing a unit on deserts or just love animals – this set of animal cards is for you! There are so many uses for these cards, and they can grow with your child! As your child matures and expands their vocabulary and knowledge of biology, you can use the set to organize animals into their taxonomic categories. Which ones are amphibian, bird, fish, mammal or reptile class? Which ones are in the accipitriformes, artiodactyla, carnivora or primate order? This set works perfectly with a lesson on Arizona or deserts too. Some of the animals in the set are endemic to the Sonoran Desert – what a cool biome! Possibilities are endless! 

Montessori style 3-part cards of 29 different Sonoran Desert animals:

• jack rabbit
• javelina
• kangaroo rat
• Gila monster
• coyote
• western diamondback rattlesnake
• roadrunner
• cactus wren
• Anna’s hummingbird
• Gila woodpecker
• lesser long-nosed bat
• scorpion
• tarantula
• horned lizard
• cactus ferruginous pygmy owl
• desert tortoise
• round-tailed ground squirrel
• common chuckwalla
• Gambel’s quail
• hoary bat
• big brown bat
• mule deer
• bobcat
• gray fox
• sidewinder
• desert spiny lizard
• desert bighorn sheep
• cicada
• American kestrel

Each “card set” (animal) consists of 3 cards, thus “3-part cards” :

1. control card (picture with label) – approx size: 3.67″ x 4.25″
2. picture card – approx size: 3.67″ x 3″
3. label card – approx size: 3.67″ x 1.25″

This product is an instant downloadable digital file in PDF format. Nothing is sent in the mail. 

Activities for using 3 part cards (print out our FREE printable “Activities for getting the most out of your 3-part cards”) include but not limited to:

• Naming and Identifying
• Matching (picture to picture, picture to label, and more!)
• Memory Game (control card to picture card, picture card to label card, etc)
• Identifying beginning only sounds 
• What’s Missing?
• Mystery Bag (additional resources required)
• Create some animal art of your own! We believe our animal images are inspiring, and you may just want to try your hand at drawing or painting some too!
• Be creative! Make up your own games or use the cards individually for conversation starters, unit or topic initiators,  “hot and cold” games, learning a second language, parts of speech (adding different adjectives), story creation, the sky’s the limit!

How to prepare your card sets: We recommend printing on heavy cardstock and separating with a paper cutter or scissors into the 3 part sets. Round corners with a corner rounder punch (see our favorites page for our recommendation). For added durability, you can laminate your cards, if desired. If you are very low key, you can simply print on paper and cut, just keep in mind this style is not ideal for “memory” activities, but will overall work fine for most others.

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