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 Mojave Max has a lot to teach your kids about native desert species and conservation! Please click here for the Mojave Max Clark County Teacher Handbook in PDF format. We hope the following resources will help you continue spreading the message of Mojave Max in the classroom and beyond! |
Has your class been studying Mojave Max? Click here for a printable quiz! You can also print out our Mojave Max vocabulary matching worksheet, or our vocabulary fill-in-the-blanks worksheet!
The Mojave Max Education Program is based on Nevada State Education Standards. Clink on these links (PDF Files) for more information:
Las Vegas BLM Learning Landscapes Beyond the Strip: Las Vegas Outdoor Activities Southern California Curriculum Documents The 1973 Endangered Species Act
Max has been in the news many times! Share some of these links with your class to help them learn about past Mojave Max announcements! The Las Vegas Sun compares Max and Groundhog's Day Mojave Max: The Making of a Local Icon LVRJ talks about Max and the contest! LVRJ release about the 2009 winner. Sandstone Online's article on the Mojave Max 2007 winner. Las Vegas Sun on Mojave Max's 2009 emergence USA Today featured Max in 2004! Nevada Public Radio talks about the 2004 contest.
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Great books for your classroom! Red Carpet Chronicles by Becky Davis The Desert Tortoise by Sue Fox Desert Tortoises by Christopher Blomquist Venom by Marilyn SingerAnimal Tracks and Signs by Jinny Johnson Animals on the Edge by Sandra Pobst  Eggs by Marilyn Singer and Emma Stevenson Predators by John Seidensticker and Susan Lumpkin Adaptation by Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, and Laura Silverstein Nunn Box Turtles by Lynn M. Stone  Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg Written and illustrated by Mia Posada Where in the Wild? Camouflaged Creatures Concealed…and Revealed by David M. Schwartz and Yael Schy  Life in the Slow Lane: A Desert Tortoise Tale by Conrad J. Storad The Tortoise and the Jackrabbit by Susan Lowell The Desert Tortoise by James W. Cornett |
Assembly Presentations The
Mojave
Max
Program provides educational assemblies in January and February of each
year. The assemblies include appearances by a meteorologist who
discusses Mojave
Desert weather, an educator who discusses desert tortoise biology and
conservation, and the costumed
Mojave
Max
character. Availability for assemblies is limited, and
applications are accepted each November.
Mojave Max Emergence Contest Beginning each year on November 1st, Clark County students can go online at www.mojavemax.com to enter their guess as to when the real Mojave Max will emerge from his burrow at Red Rock Canyon. The student who gets closest to Max’s actual emergence time will win an “Outdoor Adventure Pack” with digital camera, an annual pass to all federal recreational lands, and a class pizza party at Red Rock Canyon. The teacher of the winning student will receive a laptop computer. Classroom Presentations Third grade teachers: A Mojave Max educator will visit your classroom to teach a 45-minute lesson about the desert tortoise and its habitat, the Mojave Desert. The lesson includes information about Mojave Desert weather, desert tortoise biology, and the importance of desert conservation. The presentation is fun, interactive, and curriculum-based.
Teacher Workshops Would you like to teach the Mojave Max lessons at your own school? Participate in the Mojave Max PDE course to learn about Mojave Desert weather and ecology, desert tortoise biology, and desert conservation. Participants will also learn fun ways to share information about our desert and its wildlife with their students. Teachers who complete the course will have the opportunity to check out a Mojave Max teaching kit, which contains books, posters, teaching props, and actual tortoise shells. For more information about any of these programs, please contact Mojave Max Program Manager Stacy Irvin via InterAct or at 702-258-7097. |
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| For program information: Christina Gibson Website Questions: Jim Davis |
