This site from the Occupational Outlook Handbook provides a good description of what a physician's assistant is. An outline is provided with links to make navigation of this article easier. This is a great site to check out on the subject.

Occupational outlook for all doctors that details expected job market in future, salary, working conditions, etc.

A thorough overview of the careers of physicist and astronomer, covering nature of the work, working conditions, employment information, training requirements, and job outlook.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics offers a general description of the college and university faculty career.

Part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' website, the major sector Productivity and Costs program produces quarterly and annual output per hour and unit labor costs for the U.S. business, nonfarm business, and manufacturing sectors. Contains tables, charts, and productivity statistics most often cited by the national media.

A concise overview of the psychology field. Lists working conditions, qualifications, job outlook, and salary expectations. The site is constantly updated.

This resource provides information about purchasing managers, buyers, and purchasing agents. Find out the nature of their work, working conditions, training and other qualifications, earnings, and much more.

This resource provides information on a group of careers surrounding radio and television broadcasting.

An article, chart, and graph compares spending habits for hourseholds that bring in over $90,000 with those that bring in under $90,000. (Nov. 1998)

The U.S. Department of Labor provides an excellent site with all of the information you need to know about the career of a surgical technician.

Learn about the nature of the work done by surveyors, cartographers, and photogrammetrists. Includes a job outlook and expected income.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics offers an overview of the whole teaching field, from kindergarten through high school.

The seven major economic indicators for the U.S. economy are listed here in an easy to read chart. The seven indicators are unemployment rate, change in hourly employment, average hourly earnings, consumer price index, producer price index, U.S. import price index, employment cost index and productivity.

This resource explains all aspects of the veterinarian career. It discusses the nature of the work, working conditions, employment, training, job outlook, earnings, related occupations, and it has sources of additional information.

The story of the economy of Burma is one of potential, but because of governmental mismangagement, there is no development of that potential. Read about the possibilities and realities of the Burmese economy based on information from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes. Current to 2007.

Find out about the repressive government in Burma. There is a chart that lists the theoretical constitutional government, but there have been no elections since 1990 so the constitution is just a theory right now. Information from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes. Current to 2007.

This video segment from Between the Lions uses an alphabet song to review the ABCs, matching each letter with the name of a character from the show.

In this activity, students will make their own finger signs for the numbers from zero to ten. Students will relate each finger sign to its numeral and then explore number sentences using the calculator.

Learn about the Banana Festival in this fun online story. Great illustrations and the story is easy for younger children to navigate.