Launchpad: NASA's History of Winter Program

Description

What can measuring the density of snow and diagramming snowflakes teach us about the cryosphere and Earth's global climate system? NASA's History of Winter program gives teachers opportunities to conduct real world research.

Published on: November 02, 2009

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Keywords

NASA; NASA eClips; NIA; Launchpad; cryosphere; history of winter; HOW; climate; snow; research; Lake Placid; STEM, High School, science, technology, engineering, math, education, video, Peggy Maher, snowflakes, Earth Science, ICESat, Peter Wasilewski, NGSS, Earth Day

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