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Bee Cool! (Honeybee Thermoregulation)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Physics, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Science
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: Structure and Function in Living Things, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Health Science & Medical Technology
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: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science 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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Brrr... Wind Chill is Chilly
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Life Sciences, Professional Development, 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)
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Lake Effect Snow
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, 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: Professional Development, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, 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, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, 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: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Classification
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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Win Snowball Fights With Better Strategy and Snow Tech
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Physics, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), 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: Geography, Professional Development, Our Solar System, Earth's Resources 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: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Science
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: Structure and Function in Living Things, Evolution and Adaptation, Life Sciences, Professional Development, 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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Resource Type: Document
Length of Planet Earth's Days and Nights
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, 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, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Engineering & Design, 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, Professional Development, Chemistry, Engineering & Design
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, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Chemistry, 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, Professional Development, Engineering & Design
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: Life Sciences, Nutrition, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 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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Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Winter Olympics Physiology and Psychology
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Health Science & Medical Technology, Psychology and 2 additional..
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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Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Bacteria Assists in Formation of Ice and Snow
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Cells, Injury Prevention & Safety 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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