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Giant Iceberg in McMurdo Sound
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Professional Development, Earth's Resources
This NASA data sheet details Giant Iceberg, Number B-15A, in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
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, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Professional Development, Life Sciences
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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Formation of a Glacier
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Earth's Resources
This resource depicts the formation of a glacier including detail showing the process of plucking and the formation of terminal ...
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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Professional Development, Life Sciences, Science
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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Figure Skating Dynamics of Leaps and Throws
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Professional Development, Force & Motion
This resource from the World of Sports Science explains the forces at work in leaps and throws in figure skating.
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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Engineering a Smooth Ride: Creating the Perfect Ski Through Shaping and Vibration Damping
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Technology, Engineering & Design
Illumin, an online periodical published by the University of Southern California School of Engineering, seeks illustrate the man...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Elderly's Ability to Manage the Cold May Be Due In Part to Some Aging Processes of the Body
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Health Science & Medical Technology, Professional Development, Life Sciences
Younger adults are less susceptible to hypothermia than the elderly, whose impaired ability to maintain core temperature during ...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Daniel Fahrenheit, Anders Celsius Left Their Marks
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Mathematics, Nature & Method of Science, Professional Development, Earth's Resources
This interesting historic profile of Daniel Fahrenheit and Anders Celsius describes the processes these scientists used in descr...
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, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Heat & Thermodynamics, Earth & Space Science 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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Body temperature changes induced by huddling in breeding male emperor penguins
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources and 2 additional.., Life Sciences, Science
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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Bee Cool! (Honeybee Thermoregulation)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Physics, Professional Development, Life Sciences, 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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Bacteria Assists in Formation of Ice and Snow
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Injury Prevention & Safety, Earth & Space Science, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Cells 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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Avalanche!
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, 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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Are Chicken Embryos Endotherms or Ectotherms? A Laboratory Exercise Integrating Concepts in Thermoregulation and Metabolism
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Professional Development, Life Sciences
This investigative laboratory exercise uses the different relations between ambient temperature and metabolic rate in endotherms...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Antarctic Ice Movement Part II
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development
For the most part, an ice sheet moves down slope slowly because the ice is in direct contact with underlying bedrock. In some pl...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Antarctic Ice Movement Part I
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development
With more than 29 million cubic kilometers (7 million cubic miles) of ice and snow, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is so massive that i...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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