Launchpad: NASA’s History of Winter Program
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.
Background Information
Grades 9 through 12
- NASA History of Winter
Activities
Grades 9 through 12
- GLOBE Atmosphere - Precipitation, Air Temperature
- GLOBE Earth as a System - Weather Bundle, Water Cycle Bundle
- My NASA Data Cryosphere - Changes in Snow and Ice Extent, Sea and Land Ice Melt
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)/Chandra X-Ray Center Ice Core Records
Mathematics
Grades 9 through 12
- SpaceMath@NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace Exploring Snowflake Shapes
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Tour of the Cryosphere 2009
- SpaceMath@NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace Exploring Snow Density and Volume