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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy is it so hard to start a car in the winter?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Energy & Work, Earth's Resources, Chemistry, Professional Development, Our Solar SystemThis article describes the physical reasons why automobile engines have more difficulty starting in cold conditions than in warm...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy does salt melt ice?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, GraduateSubjects: Science, Earth & Space Science, Solution Chemistry, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases) and 5 additional..This tutorial on the chemical interaction between salt and ice explains how molecules on the surface of the ice escape into the ...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLiquid nitrogen is very, very cold! (liquid nitrogen demonstration)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Chemistry, Professional Development, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases)In this YouTube video, chemistry teacher Aaron Keller demonstrates the amazing properties of liquid nitrogen. He explains each d...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentSnow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Science, Earth's Resources, Weather, Climate & AtmosphereThis animation illustrates the conditions responsible for snow, sleet, rain, and freezing rain based on vertical temperature gra...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNew Olympic Clocks Go for the Gold
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Technology, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Mathematics and 2 additional..In the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, German racer Georg Hackl took the gold in the men's luge by just 13 milliseconds, or thousandt...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFigure Skating Dynamics of Leaps and Throws
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Force & Motion, Professional DevelopmentThis resource from the World of Sports Science explains the forces at work in leaps and throws in figure skating.Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe high-tech race for Olympic gold: Speed suits reveal cutting-edge technology in quest for victory
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Technology, Engineering & Design, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Physics, Professional DevelopmentThis MSNBC article from 2002 describes the state-of-the-science technology, research, and development behind body suits in prepa...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUse of Orthoplast® for Winter Sports
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Technology, Engineering & Design, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences and 3 additional..Article from the Journal of Athletic Training discusses use of the Orthoplast to protect athletes participating in winter sport:...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRipples on Icicles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Engineering & Design, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..This website, from the University of Toronto, provides a discussion of the instability that gives rise to ripples on the surface...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDaniel Fahrenheit, Anders Celsius Left Their Marks
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Nature & Method of Science, Mathematics, Earth's Resources, Professional DevelopmentThis interesting historic profile of Daniel Fahrenheit and Anders Celsius describes the processes these scientists used in descr...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMammalian Hibernation: Cellular and Molecular Responses to Depressed Metabolism and Low Temperature
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional DevelopmentReview of research using new tools of molecular and cellular biology that is beginning to reveal how hibernators survive repeate...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHypothalamic control of body temperature: insights from the past
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional DevelopmentThis essay looks at the historical significance of three APS classic papers dealing with temperature regulation and hypothalamic...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPhysiology of the Season: Santa and Rudolph Adapt to the Weather
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 2 additional..In a special holiday podcast from the American Physiological Society, Perry Barboza, Institute of Arctic Biology at the Universi...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkElderly's Ability to Manage the Cold May Be Due In Part to Some Aging Processes of the Body
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, Health Science & Medical TechnologyYounger adults are less susceptible to hypothermia than the elderly, whose impaired ability to maintain core temperature during ...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHelp Santa Stand Up to the Heat: Physiologists Offer Santa Some Tips for a Cool Ride
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 2 additional..This press release from the American Physiological Society describes how Santa adjusts to differing climates as he travels the g...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAre Chicken Embryos Endotherms or Ectotherms? A Laboratory Exercise Integrating Concepts in Thermoregulation and Metabolism
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional DevelopmentThis investigative laboratory exercise uses the different relations between ambient temperature and metabolic rate in endotherms...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSome characteristics of temperature regulation in the unanesthetized dog.
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional DevelopmentThis article reports the results of measurements of hypothalamic temperature and regulatory responses in the normal dog in hot, ...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBody temperature changes induced by huddling in breeding male emperor penguins
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Life Sciences and 2 additional..Huddling is the key energy-saving mechanism for emperor penguins to endure their 4-month incubation fast during the Antarctic wi...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFor The March Of The Penguins Stars, Huddling and a Drop in Metabolism Allow Survival in Biting South Pole Cold
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Professional DevelopmentThis press release covers a study that found dropping of the metabolic rate may be a key to huddling penguins’ survival. March o...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTemperature Regulation Powerpoint Slides
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 2 additional..Lecture slides provided by the Department of Physiology at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center are a self-contained...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0