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Giant Iceberg in McMurdo Sound
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, 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, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Professional Development, Evolution and Adaptation, 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, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems
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: Professional Development, Science, Life Sciences, Education, Child Development & Family Services
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: Professional Development, Physics, 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: Engineering & Design, Professional Development, Chemistry, Physics
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: Engineering & Design, Professional Development, Technology, Physics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis
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: Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Health Science & Medical Technology
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, Heat & Thermodynamics, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development 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, Professional Development, Science, Human Anatomy & Physiology and 2 additional..
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: Professional Development, Science, Physics, Life Sciences, Education, Child Development & Family Services
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: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development, 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: Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development, Earth's Resources
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, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Life Sciences, Education, Child Development & Family Services
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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