"A falling snowflake may take up to two hours to reach the ground, and even the heaviest snowflake falls at only one mile per hour."
Wow! Don't miss this virtual snowflake designer. Start by perusing the gallery of saved snowflakes, and then try your hand at making your own.
Paper Snowflakes offers paper fold-and-cut snowflake templates for dozens of craft, science, and math activities.
Today's selections are a mixture of fun and instruction. Two are chock-full of snow games to be played on your computer screen, and the remaining three will help you prepare for actually hitting the slopes with advice on improving your skills on the hill.
For snow bunnies surfing the Internet, Bonus.
This excellent introduction to snowboarding explains concepts such as fall line and linked turns with illustrations and a few audio interviews.
The very first snowboard was made in 1965 by an eighth grader in shop class.
Kids Domain is a just-for-the-fun-of-it site for snow games, coloring, puzzles and downloadable games to be played off line.
Now back to the serious business of improving your skiing and snowboarding skills.
When the weatherman issues a heavy snow warning, he's telling us that he expects at least six inches of snow on the ground in the next twelve hours but without any significant wind.
"This site is all about snow crystals and snowflakes -- what they are, where they come from, and just how these remarkably complex and beautiful structures are created, quite literally, out of thin air.
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