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The Science of Hockey
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Engineering & Design, Professional Development
The 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)
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Method of using microcrystalline cellulose to enhance artificial snow making
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Earth's Resources, Professional Development
In 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)
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Explaining Ice: The Answers Are Slippery
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Engineering & Design, Professional Development
The 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)
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No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Engineering & Design, Professional Development
This 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)
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Length of Planet Earth's Days and Nights
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development
Have 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)
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Frozen Frogs
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Evolution and Adaptation, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Structure and Function in Living Things, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere
In 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)
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Global View of the Seasons
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, Professional Development
By measuring subtle differences in light that result from varying concentrations of plant life around the world, scientists are ...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Science of Winter
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Geography, History-Social Science, Our Solar System 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)
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Win Snowball Fights With Better Strategy and Snow Tech
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Physics, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Professional Development
This "expedient" piece from Popular Mechanics presents some of the physics behind good packing snow.
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Hibernation
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Classification, Life Sciences, Earth's Resources, Professional Development
This reference site provides and overview of hibernation, and its considerable distinction from sleep, along with specific infor...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Icicles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Physics, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere
This pages explains how icicles grow from roof edges and in other locations.
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Avalanche!
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Geology & the Dynamic Earth
This 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)
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Lake Effect Snow
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere
This tutorial page/case study (22 December 1998) provides details on the necessary conditions for, and characteristics of, lake ...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Brrr... Wind Chill is Chilly
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Life Sciences, Heat & Thermodynamics, Earth's Resources 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)
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Resource Type: Document
Lake Vostok Water
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Life Sciences, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth's Resources 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)
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Responses to Mild Cold Stress Are Predicted by Different Individual Characteristics in Young and Older Subjects
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Health Science & Medical Technology, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology
Older individuals' ability to maintain core temperature during cold stress is impaired; however, the relative importance of indi...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Bee Cool! (Honeybee Thermoregulation)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Physics, Science, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services
In 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)
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Temperature Regulation Powerpoint Slides
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Health Science & Medical Technology 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)
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For 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 Graduate
Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services
This 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)
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Body temperature changes induced by huddling in breeding male emperor penguins
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, Agriculture & Natural Resources, 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)
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