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The Science of Hockey
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Engineering & Design, Professional DevelopmentThe Science of Hockey is the first in a series of "Sports Science" resources developed by the Exploratorium. This site takes you...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Method of using microcrystalline cellulose to enhance artificial snow making
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, GraduateSubjects: Physics, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, ChemistryIn this description of US Patent 6116515, the text details part of the "art" of making artificial snow--used in the Winter Games...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Explaining Ice: The Answers Are Slippery
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, GraduateSubjects: Physics, Engineering & Design, Professional Development, ChemistryThe Winter Olympics could be accurately described as the "Slippery Olympics," in that nearly the all of the events--skiing, skat...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Engineering & Design, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentThis highly cogent feature from the The New York Time Europe, from December 28, 2008, describes the super efficient features of ...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Length of Planet Earth's Days and Nights
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional DevelopmentHave you ever wondered about why the amount of light during the days decreases in the winter (and least, that is, if you are in ...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Frozen Frogs
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Evolution and Adaptation, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional Development, Life Sciences, Weather, Climate & AtmosphereIn this video adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn how the common wood frog survives the cold winter. Wood frogs are found in the...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Global View of the Seasons
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Science, Professional Development, Life SciencesBy measuring subtle differences in light that result from varying concentrations of plant life around the world, scientists are ...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Science of Winter
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, History-Social Science and 3 additional..Is it true that no two snowflakes are alike? What happens to mosquitoes when the mercury drops? National Geographic Channel expl...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Win Snowball Fights With Better Strategy and Snow Tech
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Physics, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases)This "expedient" piece from Popular Mechanics presents some of the physics behind good packing snow.Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Hibernation
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Life Sciences, ClassificationThis reference site provides and overview of hibernation, and its considerable distinction from sleep, along with specific infor...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Icicles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Physics, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & AtmosphereThis pages explains how icicles grow from roof edges and in other locations.Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Avalanche!
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth's Resources, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentThis video and companion website explain the mechanics of an avalanche and how scientists are attempting to learning more about ...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Lake Effect Snow
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & AtmosphereThis tutorial page/case study (22 December 1998) provides details on the necessary conditions for, and characteristics of, lake ...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Brrr... Wind Chill is Chilly
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, GraduateSubjects: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Heat & Thermodynamics and 3 additional..This overview of the Wind Chill Factor provides a wind chill calculator, conversion tables, raw data (Excel file), and biology a...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Lake Vostok Water
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere and 2 additional..This simulation depicts deposition dynamics at Lake Vostok, an ancient, pristine liquid lake discovered in Antarctica in 1996 bu...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Responses to Mild Cold Stress Are Predicted by Different Individual Characteristics in Young and Older Subjects
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Health Science & Medical Technology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional Development, Life SciencesOlder individuals' ability to maintain core temperature during cold stress is impaired; however, the relative importance of indi...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Bee Cool! (Honeybee Thermoregulation)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Physics, Science, Professional Development, Life SciencesIn this open-ended investigation students determine how honeybees heat their larvae (brood) when it’s cold and how they cool the...Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Temperature Regulation Powerpoint Slides
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Health Science & Medical Technology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Science 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: 0For 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Science, Professional Development, Life SciencesThis 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: 0Body temperature changes induced by huddling in breeding male emperor penguins
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Science, Structure and Function in Living Things 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

