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San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Kids: Gila Monster

For Students K - 1st
Colorful resource for learning fun facts about Gila monsters with photographs as well as information regarding their physical characteristics and unique features.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Goya, the Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Quiz)

For Students 9th - 10th
How much do you know about Goya's work The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters? Find out by answering this four-question multiple-choice quiz. Check each answer before moving to the next question. Hints are available for each question.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Monsters: Cerberus

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about Cerberus, Hades' monster dog and the guard of the Underworld, who had three heads and snakes on his tail and mane. He guarding the entrance to the underworld to prevent the dead from exiting.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Monsters: Typhon (Typhoeus)

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about Typhon, a terrifying part man part beast monster whose mission was to destroy the earth and cause problems for Zeus.
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Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Monsters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page has a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 54 vocabulary words pertaining to monsters, creatures, or scary ideas. It also includes an extensive word list and lesson ideas on the same subject.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Myths, Monsters and the Imagination

For Students 9th - 10th
A shadowy man-eating monster, a strange green knight, and fictional accounts of journeys around the world: investigate the boundaries between the real and imaginary in medieval literature.
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British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Monsters and Heroes in Beowulf

For Students 9th - 10th
This article tries to figure out the meaning of monsters in Beowulf, comparing the hero with Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Monster Mansion Match

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Monster Mansion Match is a fun matching game for kids. Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match two of the same monster. Watch out for the Little Angry Red Monster though! He likes to...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Stephen Crane the Monster

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, you can read the full text of Stephen Crane's "The Monster." This story is 35 pages long.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Monster Mansion Letter Match

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Monster Mansion Letter Match is a fun educational game for kids to practice matching capital and lowercase letters. Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match the uppercase to lowercase...
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Monster Mansion Shape Match

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Monster Mansion Shape Match is a fun educational game for kids to learn and practice 2D and 3D shapes. Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match objects to shapes or objects to words....
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Monster Mansion Number Match

For Students Pre-K - K
Monster Mansion Number Match is a fun matching game for kids to practice numbers and counting. Click on the windows of the Monster Mansion to reveal the friendly monsters inside and match the numbers and objects. Players can compare...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Monsters of the Sea, Legendary and Authentic by John Gibson

For Students 2nd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Monsters of the Sea, Legendary and Authentic by John Gibson (1890), a collection stories about sea creatures both real and legendary.
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Other

Dracula and Frankenstein: A Tale of Two Monsters

For Students 9th - 10th
Connections that exist between Frankenstein's monster and Dracula are explored in this article.
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Saint Louis Zoo

Saint Louis Zoo: Banded Gila Monster

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover fun facts and learn about the habitat, breeding, diet, conservation status, and appearance of the Gila monster.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Exponentials Alien Monster Growth

For Students 6th - 9th
This Algebra Cruncher generates an endless number of practice problems for the exponential growth of alien monsters with solutions.
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Sheppard Software

Sheppard Software: Gila Monsters

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Monster Bugs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Here are a couple of fun games where you can mix and match bug bodies, legs, wings, and heads to make your own "monster bug." There is also some fun trivia as you play!
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Fact Monster

Fact Monster: Decimals Places

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Fact Monster: Decimals is a learning module that focuses on digit placement. It also provides videos on how to add and subtract decimals and how to multiply and divide decimals.
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Other

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Monsters and the Moral Imagination

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay discussing possible reasons for current culture's fascination with monsters in fiction.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Ancient Greece for Kids: Monsters and Creatures of Greek Mythology

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the monsters and creatures of Greek Mythology such as Medusa, Typhon, the furies, hydra, sirens, satyrs, and cyclop on this site.
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Seeker

Seeker: Week of 3 31 14: Seeds of Monster Black Holes Surprisingly Big

For Students 9th - 10th
Article reports on new findings about the beginnings of black holes.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Monster of a Metaphor

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students analyze the monster metaphor from chapter five of The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck as they develop ideas for extended metaphors that describe characters within a specific setting. Teacher instructions and resources are provided,...
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Other

Bristol Zoo: Gila Monster

For Students 9th - 10th
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 &...

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