Young people may spend their free time seeing their favorite movies . Puerto Rican surfers may send friends surfing E-mails , Argentine backpackers may have plans to stay in hostels during backpacking excursions, and teens in Chile may go to the national parks, snow ski, camp, or go surfing. There's no better time than a cold, winter's night to curl up by the fireplace and read poetry by Robert Frost. Visit this Robert Frost site to learn more about this beloved New England poet and to hear audio recordings of Frost reading some of his famous poems. If snowboarding is one of your favorite winter activities, you can learn about the geometry of snowboarding to help you know how far to turn when you are doing tricks.
Some people prefer to stay indoors in the winter and work on craft projects.
If the art of folding paper appeals to you, then you can spend many cold days working on Origami , exploring the geometry of tessellation and the folding patterns hidden within the square of paper. Science Now that the weather has turned colder in much of the United States, the ice hockey season has begun. Learn about the science of ice hockey from the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco. While we are thinking about all of that ice and snow, let's travel farther away and visit glaciers in Antarctica. Find your answers at this glacier site, courtesy of Rice University.