This video segment from Outdoor Nevada looks at the Gila monster's behavior, habitat, and unique adaptive characteristics. [3:55]

This site provides the complete etext for Edgar Rice Burroughs's story, "The Monster Men."

This entry identifies the defining characteristics of Heloderma Suspectum, more commonly known as the Gila Monster.

Learn more about the Giants of Ancient Greece, huge, frightful monsters who tried to attach the Olympian gods.

Kindergartners love making things, and this activity allows them to create a unique shape monster and practice numbers recording the shapes used.

Connections that exist between Frankenstein's monster and Dracula are explored in this article.

An essay discussing possible reasons for current culture's fascination with monsters in fiction.

You will find a number of key facts about the Gila monster under the following topics: geographical distribution, diet, food & feeding, habitat, conservation status, relatives, physical characteristics, lifestyle, family &...

An online game where students can make monsters appear by knowing their addition facts.

Learn more about the Cyclopes, mythological giants with only one round eye in their forehead. See why they only have one eye.

This article by Eric McMillan focuses on comparing the translations of Beowulf with passages from the original Old English translation and four other translations. He discusses translations in poetry and in prose, with alliteration and...

This article provides an easy to understand explanation of North American Free Trade Agreement. Read this brief article to learn about and understand NAFTA.

Mythweb is devoted to the heroes, gods, and monsters of Greek mythology. Students can click on the Greek character they'd like to study, and read more information for that character.

Uncover all types of U.S. Presidential Inauguration trivia at this site.

Which President had the best Inaugural speech? Who had the longest speech? Find out here.

Read about Perseus, the founder of Mycenae and a man of great strength. Learn how he killed the Greek monster Gorgon Medusa.

Due to the strife incurred by garment workers at the turn of the century, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) was formed. Read about its history and its relevancy in the 21st century.

Overview on the scandal that plagued the oil industry during the Harding administration including the causes, the scandal itself, the consequences, and the results.

A brief biographical profile of Oliver Winchester, who gave his name to the Winchester rifle.

An online game where students destroy spooky monsters by answering questions that have them writing rational numbers as decimals and decimals as fractions.

Brief introduction to Tarski's life and work. Explains the major topics in mathematics and logic on which he worked.

Archived exhibition reveals how European writers and mapmakers thought about America during the Age of Discovery. Describes the allegorical images Europeans sometimes used to portray America and features the Gutierrez map, drawn in 1562,...

Catch monsters as your solve math problems.

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Robert Motherwell in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.