#Blizzard2016 on Instagram
From Alabama to New York, people ventured out in the snow and shared it with the world on social media.
By AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER on Publish Date January 23, 2016.We’re trying something new — a simple, topical weekly list that links to Times articles past and present. Use it for teaching and learning, or just for fun.
Let us know what you think — or suggest your own ideas for future lists.
1. Learn how two snowflakes can be the same.
2. Make hot chocolate. Or soup.
3. Experience a famous blizzard in history via photos from 1888.
4. Up your cold-weather fashion game.
5. Watch and read a harrowing Times classic, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek.”
6. Log in and do your schoolwork remotely.
8. Read a poem about snowflakes.
9. Watch extreme-weather videos
10. Read about the snow mound in Boston last year that lasted until July.
11. Imagine what you would do if you had to spend the night in your car on an interstate.
12. Test your snow-day-related vocabulary.
13. Make a documentary about your snow day, like this 12-year-old did.
14. Watch the snowboard legends Jeremy Jones and Bryan Iguchi in the Jackson Hole backcountry. Or the viral filmmaker Casey Neistat snowboard New York City streets.
15. Learn why icicles look the way they do.
16. Look at photos of the sled dogs who race the Iditarod.
17. Watch the ski jumper Jessica Jerome explain the sport.
18. Go on a Polar Bear Club swim.
19. Stage a giant snowball fight (but stay on the right side of the law).
20. Make money shoveling snow (but stay on the right side of the law ).
21. Take some speed and workout tips from an Olympic bobsledder.
22. Read about how Russia stockpiled snow for the 2014 Olympics.
23. Tell us about your fantasy snow day.
24. Find a lot more ideas for teaching and learning with cold weather.
25. Don’t do anything.