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Bee Cool! (Honeybee Thermoregulation)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Physics, Science, Professional Development, Life Sciences
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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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: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, Life Sciences, Health Science & Medical Technology, Structure and Function in Living Things
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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Resource Type: Document
Lake Vostok Water
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Ecology & Ecosystems and 2 additional.., Earth's Resources, Life Sciences
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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Brrr... Wind Chill is Chilly
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Structure and Function in Living Things, Earth & Space Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology 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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Lake Effect Snow
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science
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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Avalanche!
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science
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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Icicles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Physics, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science
This pages explains how icicles grow from roof edges and in other locations.
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Hibernation
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Classification, Life Sciences, Earth & Space Science
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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Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Win Snowball Fights With Better Strategy and Snow Tech
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Physics, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science
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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Science of Winter
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Geography 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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Global View of the Seasons
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Science, Professional Development, Life Sciences
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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Frozen Frogs
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Professional Development, Life Sciences, Structure and Function in Living Things, Evolution and Adaptation
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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Resource Type: Document
Length of Planet Earth's Days and Nights
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science
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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No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Engineering & Design, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science
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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Explaining Ice: The Answers Are Slippery
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Engineering & Design, Chemistry, 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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Method of using microcrystalline cellulose to enhance artificial snow making
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science
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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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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Nutrition Science and the Winter Olympics
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Nutrition, Professional Development, Life Sciences, Health Science & Medical Technology
Science is a powerful asset for athletes who want to use nutrition to their advantage. Whether an Olympic medal is won by tenths...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Winter Olympics Physiology and Psychology
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Health Science & Medical Technology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, History-Social Science and 2 additional.., Life Sciences, Psychology
This online course provides instruction on the physical and psychological demands of cross-country skiing.
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Bacteria Assists in Formation of Ice and Snow
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Cells, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere and 3 additional..
NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday Audio Story: New work in the journal Science suggests that bacteria may have played an imp...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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