A career in Nuclear Engineering is profiled.Included: Nuclear Engineering overview, Preparation, Day In The Life, Earnings, Employment, Career Path Forecast, Professional Organizations.

This site from Georgia State University provides a lengthy page with a thorough description of the fusion process. Discussion is complemented by excellent graphics and links to further information.

What happens when a nuclear reactor overheats? This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE looks at the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl, the worst accident of its kind.

This article profiles Gerrit Vyn and Martha Fischer, sound recordists with the Macaulay Library, Cornell University, and their expedition to Nunavut, Canada, to record male sanderling vocalizations.

Learn about the diversity of species on Earth by exploring a cladogram, a graph-like tree of life that illustrates relatedness among species. Includes instructions for reading cladograms and a pie chart that summarizes the percentages of the world's living things that belong to select classifications.

A very good reference for spelling that outlines the rules for EI/IE and the exceptions, and provides exercises for understanding. L.11-12.2b Spelling

This video segment produced for Teachers' Domain features a time-lapse video of clouds forming, changing, and moving across the sky.

Home on the web of the Nobel Prize and the foundation that sponsors the awards, given annually, for outstanding contributions in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The site features current winners each year. You will also find biographies and other information on every Nobel Prize Laureate in every category since the Prize was initiated in 1901. In the Education section, there are over 40 productions, including many interactive games which help to develop an understanding of the developments for which Nobel Laureates have won their prizes.

This video segment from Between the Lions features an African tale full of surprises and new words. Master storyteller Karen Kandel models the power of storytelling, the mesmerizing effects of language, and how stories can help build vocabulary and background knowledge.

Three cloning experts share their opinions of cloning in these interviews from NOVA: "18 Ways to Make a Baby."

Contains plans for five lessons that teach about fairy tales and literary elements by having students write their own fractured fairy tales. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

This multimedia site offers readings of Whitman's poetry, an introduction, a gallery of images and works through the years of his career, and a reflection of Whitman's significance.

An online version of the full text of Alice in Wonderland, complete with illustrations.

Contains plans for a minilesson that teaches about onomatopoeia using Edgar Allan Poe?s poem ?The Bells.? In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lesson as well as assessment and reflection activities.

Illustrated accounts of the destruction and loss of two ships sailing to America across the Atlantic illuminate the dangers of nineteenth-century travel and the modes of rescue available at the time. With a range of archival material, including particulars about one set of Irish immigrants fortunate enough t/ have survived the wreck, in 1850, of the Ayrshire.

Twenty-five lectures from Yale course, ENGL 310: Modern Poetry, with a syllabus, handouts, reading assignments, activities, and a final exam study guide. Lectures are available as text transcripts, audio, and video. Poets and topics covered: Robert Frost, William Butler Yeats, World War I poetry, imagism, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop.

This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, illustrates how Native people preserve history and tradition through oral storytelling.

William Morey offers a description of the brief reign of Titus in his textbook of 1901.

By the end of the Roman monarchy, Rome had incorporated many cities into the Latin League, a military alliance. This was the beginning of Roman expansion into all of Italy.

Presented is biographical information, a career timeline, interviews with people who knew her, and film clip of the remarkable career of comedian Lucille Ball.