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      • Thumb image for Salt Lake City, Utah Area Flyover during Winter (NASM2002)Resource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Salt Lake City, Utah Area Flyover during Winter (NASM2002)

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Our Solar System, Professional Development, Science
        On this website, imagery from NASA's Landsat 7 is combined with terrain elevation data to create a view of the Salt Lake City ar...
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      • Thumb image for Ripples on IciclesResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Ripples on Icicles

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Properties of Matter, Engineering & Design, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Physics and 2 additional..
        This website, from the University of Toronto, provides a discussion of the instability that gives rise to ripples on the surface...
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      • Thumb image for Responses to Mild Cold Stress Are Predicted by Different Individual Characteristics in Young and Older SubjectsResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        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: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 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...
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      • Thumb image for Physiology of the Season: Santa and Rudolph Adapt to the WeatherResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Physiology of the Season: Santa and Rudolph Adapt to the Weather

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Health Science & Medical Technology, Science, Professional Development and 2 additional..
        In a special holiday podcast from the American Physiological Society, Perry Barboza, Institute of Arctic Biology at the Universi...
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      • Thumb image for Nutrition Science and the Winter OlympicsResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Nutrition Science and the Winter Olympics

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Health Science & Medical Technology, Nutrition
        Science is a powerful asset for athletes who want to use nutrition to their advantage. Whether an Olympic medal is won by tenths...
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      • Thumb image for No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’Resource Type: Website / HyperLink

        No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Engineering & Design, Earth & Space Science, Physics
        This highly cogent feature from the The New York Time Europe, from December 28, 2008, describes the super efficient features of ...
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      • Thumb image for New Olympic Clocks Go for the GoldResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        New Olympic Clocks Go for the Gold

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Physics, Professional Development 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...
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      • Thumb image for Method of using microcrystalline cellulose to enhance artificial snow makingResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Method of using microcrystalline cellulose to enhance artificial snow making

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Chemistry, Earth & Space Science, Physics
        In this description of US Patent 6116515, the text details part of the "art" of making artificial snow--used in the Winter Games...
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      • Thumb image for Mammalian Hibernation: Cellular and Molecular Responses to Depressed Metabolism and Low TemperatureResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Mammalian Hibernation: Cellular and Molecular Responses to Depressed Metabolism and Low Temperature

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things
        Review of research using new tools of molecular and cellular biology that is beginning to reveal how hibernators survive repeate...
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      • Thumb image for Liquid nitrogen is very, very cold! (liquid nitrogen demonstration)Resource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Liquid nitrogen is very, very cold! (liquid nitrogen demonstration)

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Chemistry, Physics
        In this YouTube video, chemistry teacher Aaron Keller demonstrates the amazing properties of liquid nitrogen. He explains each d...
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      • Thumb image for Length of Planet Earth's Days and NightsResource 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 ...
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      • Thumb image for Lake Vostok WaterResource Type: Document

        Lake Vostok Water

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Life Sciences and 2 additional..
        This simulation depicts deposition dynamics at Lake Vostok, an ancient, pristine liquid lake discovered in Antarctica in 1996 bu...
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      • Thumb image for Lake Effect SnowResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Lake Effect Snow

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science
        This tutorial page/case study (22 December 1998) provides details on the necessary conditions for, and characteristics of, lake ...
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      • Thumb image for Is NordicTrack Exercise a Comparable Substitute for Cross-Country Skiing?Resource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Is NordicTrack Exercise a Comparable Substitute for Cross-Country Skiing?

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Health Science & Medical Technology, Structure and Function in Living Things, Physics and 3 additional..
        The objective of this study was to analyze the motions involved with the NordicTrack and cross-country skiing and look for simil...
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      • Thumb image for IciclesResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Icicles

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Physics
        This pages explains how icicles grow from roof edges and in other locations.
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      • Thumb image for Hypothalamic control of body temperature: insights from the pastResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Hypothalamic control of body temperature: insights from the past

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things
        This essay looks at the historical significance of three APS classic papers dealing with temperature regulation and hypothalamic...
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      • Thumb image for How Do Birds Stay Warm?Resource Type: Website / HyperLink

        How Do Birds Stay Warm?

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
        Subjects: Our Solar System, Professional Development, Classification, Structure and Function in Living Things, Science
        This article describes the physiological and behavioral adaptations that allow birds to winter in cold regions, including the Ar...
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      • Thumb image for HibernationResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Hibernation

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
        Subjects: Classification, Professional Development, Life Sciences, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science
        This reference site provides and overview of hibernation, and its considerable distinction from sleep, along with specific infor...
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      • Thumb image for Help Santa Stand Up to the Heat: Physiologists Offer Santa Some Tips for a Cool RideResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Help Santa Stand Up to the Heat: Physiologists Offer Santa Some Tips for a Cool Ride

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Health Science & Medical Technology, Science, Professional Development and 2 additional..
        This press release from the American Physiological Society describes how Santa adjusts to differing climates as he travels the g...
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      • Thumb image for Global View of the SeasonsResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Global View of the Seasons

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
        Subjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Science
        By measuring subtle differences in light that result from varying concentrations of plant life around the world, scientists are ...
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