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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: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Science, 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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Science of Winter
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth's Resources, Our Solar System, Geography, Earth & Space Science 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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Wild Nor'easter
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Environmental Issues, Earth & Space Science
This interactive simulation illustrates the confluence of conditions that give rise to a nor'easter.
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Avalanche!
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, 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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Help Santa Stand Up to the Heat: Physiologists Offer Santa Some Tips for a Cool Ride
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Health Science & Medical Technology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Life Sciences and 2 additional.., Professional Development, Science
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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Body temperature changes induced by huddling in breeding male emperor penguins
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Human Anatomy & Physiology, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Structure and Function in Living Things, Life Sciences and 2 additional.., Professional Development, 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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Formation of a Glacier
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science
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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No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in ‘Passive Houses’
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Earth's Resources, Engineering & Design, Professional Development, 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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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, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology
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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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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Physiology of the Season: Santa and Rudolph Adapt to the Weather
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Health Science & Medical Technology, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Life Sciences and 2 additional.., Professional Development, Science
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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New Olympic Clocks Go for the Gold
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Physics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Technology, Mathematics 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...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Lake Vostok Water
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere 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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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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Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth's Resources, Science, Earth & Space Science
This animation illustrates the conditions responsible for snow, sleet, rain, and freezing rain based on vertical temperature gra...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Snowball Earth
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12, Graduate
Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Environmental Issues, Earth & Space Science
Audio program from the University of Wisconsin's Earthwatch Radio discusses the notion of the entire planet covered with ice. Do...
Contributor: Science of Winter (NSDL Collection)
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Bee Cool! (Honeybee Thermoregulation)
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
Subjects: Physics, Life Sciences, Professional Development, Science, 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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