Explore: Nepal

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Read and Explore: Grades K-5
Photos, fun facts, wildlife, natural resources, maps and to more - to explore Nepal.

Read and Explore: Grades K-5
The snow leopard's large paws work like snowshoes, letting the cat walk on snow without sinking.

Read and Explore: Grades K-5
In winter, red pandas may spend up to 13 hours a day looking for bamboo and eating it.

Read and Explore: Grades K-5
Geography, climate, animals, and more!

Read and Explore: Grades K-5
Easily recognized by its coat of reddish-orange with dark stripes, the tiger is the largest wild cat in the world.

Test your knowledge of Nepal with this fun Kahoot!

Watch: Grades 5-12
Travel along with Alex Tait, The Geographer at National Geographic, and a team of mappers on an expedition to Mount Everest.

Read: Grades 5-8
With more and more people visiting it each year, Mount Everest has grown increasingly polluted. This has led to the contamination of the local watershed, which threatens the health of local people.

Watch: Grades 6-12
National Geographic led an expedition to create extremely detailed maps of the Khumbu Glacier, which is the world's highest.  The team used advanced techniques learn how climate change is affecting the glacier, and how those changes will affect the people who have lived near the Khumbu for centuries.

Watch : Grades 6-12
From one of the highest weather stations ever built to a ballpoint pen and paper, this expedition uses all levels of data collecting tools to drill into the ice cores of the past and monitor the glacial movements of the future.

Watch: Grades 3-12
What is a gharial? Watch how this Nepalese breeding program returns the endangered species to the wild.

Watch: Grades 5-12
National Geographic Explorer, Sam Brooks Hyde works to bring real-time data from Mount Everest right to your screen. The technology they use visualizes data to help learners experience and understand the world.

Watch: Grades 9-12
Strontium analysis of teeth can tell us about an individual.  Scientists have been collecting data to be able to give exact strontium levels for any place on Earth.

Watch: Grades 9-12
A camera candidly records a rare moment of discovery as two archaeologists discover interesting marks on the bones of the early Samdzong people of Upper Mustang, Nepal.

Watch: Grades 9-12
Scientists re-curate stored scientific finds 20 years after they were discovered. Technology has evolved and rather than testing for DNA in the marrow of leg bones, scientists today test for DNA using teeth.

Watch: Grades 9-12
A scientific team investigates a remote, nearly-inaccessible mortuary cave, documents the findings and determines a date for the minimal artifacts and sketches out a burial site – all without doing any actual excavating.

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Explore Through Reading: Grades K-12
Books have the ability to transport readers to faraway places. Explore a different part of the world through this curated reading list.