Following a reading of the epic poem Beowulf and the contemporary text inspired by it, Grendel, students create their own monster. Lesson plans provide assessment criteria, extension ideas, and a list of resources.

Meet the Gila monster and discover fascinating facts and statistics. Learn about its physical characteristics, habitat, diet, behavior, breeding patterns, conservation, and more.

Here is the place where you can build your own monster. All living things, including monsters, have an instruction manual for building and making their bodies work. These instructions use a special code, most often known as a genetic...

An instructional program that shows students how to code using JavaScript. The Code Monster and his speech bubble are at the top of the screen where kids read straightforward explanations, commands, and questions. Code Monster is simple...

This site gives a brief description of a gila monster, including its behavior, appearance, and classification. The site includes photos and illustrations and an interactive quiz to test your understanding.

A sixteen-part learning module with links to videos, texts, slides, and websites to use while reading Walter Dean Myers' Monster.

This concise site presents a drawing of the Gila monster. Key parts of the anatomy are labeled. In addition, the site discusses the habitat venom, diet, anatomy, and reproduction of the Gila monster.

Text of the short story "A Mother of Monsters" by French author Guy de Maupassant. It tells the sad story of a woman who gave birth to deformed children due to the wearing of a tight corset. (Free site registration offers some additional...

Why do we get jealous? What causes the feelings? A psychology professor at WSU helps explain the feeling of jealousy.

Learn more about the Graeae, three old sisters who shared one tooth and one eye and responsible for the guard of the Gorgons.

Get a better understanding of nouns with definitions and examples of common nouns, examples of common and proper nouns, noun capitalization rules, common noun categories, and a video [5:21] on common and proper nouns.

This illustrated article helps students understand the weather phenomena called El Nino.

Read about the vital statistics, composition, and other facts about our home planet, Earth.

A cool fact sheet about Pluto including a place for students to enter their weight on Earth to convert it to what it would be on Pluto.

A cool fact sheet about Saturn including a place for students to enter their weight on Earth to convert it to what it would be on Saturn.

A cool fact sheet about Neptune including a place for students to enter their weight on Earth to convert it to what it would be on Neptune.

How much would you weigh on Mars? Learn this information and other cool facts about the red planet, Mars.

A cool fact sheet about Jupiter including a place for students to enter their weight on Earth to convert it to what it would be on Jupiter.

A cool fact sheet about Mercury including a place for students to enter their weight on Earth to convert it to what it would be on Mercury.

Using Melanie Watt's book entitled Scaredy Squirrel at Night, this multi-day lesson allows young scholars to apply information about Scaredy Squirrel's night time experiences and its fears as their final product model. Students will...

PBS provides a detailed overview of America's involvement in World War II and the political movements lead by evil dictators that were sprouting up in countries such as Germany, Spain, Italy, and Japan.

The elusive giant squid was caught on video for the first time in 2013. This article describes the historic find.

Brief biography of the first US black president, Barack Obama.

This site has a colorful display of information about Illinois. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.