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Salt Lake City, Utah Area Flyover during Winter (NASM2002)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Our Solar System, Science, Professional Development
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...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Ripples on Icicles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth's Resources, Properties of Matter, Engineering & Design, Earth & Space Science and 2 additional..
This website, from the University of Toronto, provides a discussion of the instability that gives rise to ripples on the surface...
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, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Professional Development, 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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Physiology of the Season: Santa and Rudolph Adapt to the Weather
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Science, Health Science & Medical Technology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences and 2 additional..
In a special holiday podcast from the American Physiological Society, Perry Barboza, Institute of Arctic Biology at the Universi...
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, Life Sciences, Professional Development, 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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No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Engineering & Design, Physics
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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Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
New Olympic Clocks Go for the Gold
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Mathematics, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Professional Development and 2 additional.., Technology, Physics
In the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, German racer Georg Hackl took the gold in the men's luge by just 13 milliseconds, or thousandt...
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: Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Physics
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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Mammalian Hibernation: Cellular and Molecular Responses to Depressed Metabolism and Low Temperature
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Professional Development
Review of research using new tools of molecular and cellular biology that is beginning to reveal how hibernators survive repeate...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Liquid nitrogen is very, very cold! (liquid nitrogen demonstration)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Chemistry, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Professional Development, Physics
In this YouTube video, chemistry teacher Aaron Keller demonstrates the amazing properties of liquid nitrogen. He explains each d...
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: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Physics
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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Resource Type: Document
Lake Vostok Water
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Life Sciences, Professional Development 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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Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
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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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, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things 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...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Icicles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Physics
This pages explains how icicles grow from roof edges and in other locations.
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Hypothalamic control of body temperature: insights from the past
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Professional Development
This essay looks at the historical significance of three APS classic papers dealing with temperature regulation and hypothalamic...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
How Do Birds Stay Warm?
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Our Solar System, Science, Professional Development, Classification
This article describes the physiological and behavioral adaptations that allow birds to winter in cold regions, including the Ar...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
Hibernation
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Life Sciences, Professional Development, 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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Resource 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: Science, Health Science & Medical Technology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences and 2 additional..
This press release from the American Physiological Society describes how Santa adjusts to differing climates as he travels the g...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
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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