Earth Right Now: What Is Up With Earth’s Water Resources?

Written by Nathan Smith on April 26, 2018. Posted in STEM and STEAM.

Earth Right Now: What Is Up With Earth’s Water Resources?
Audience: Educators of Grades 4-10
Event Date: April 30, 2018, at 5 p.m. EDT
Contact: susan.m.kohler@nasa.gov

Join the NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State University for a free 60-minute webinar. Participants will learn about NASA’s Mission Geography, which delivers problem-based learning modules with real data. Explore investigations focusing on the physical nature of a resource, how humans depend upon the resource, and how human use creates both problems and opportunities by affecting the resource. Online registration required.

Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith is Director of Technology for the College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University. In that role, he also directs The Adele & Dale Young Education Technology Center (The YETC) located in room 170 of the Education Building on Utah State University's Logan campus. The YETC is a combination student openaccess computer facility, a K12 curriculum materials library, a NASA Educator Resource Center for Utah, and a technology training center. Nathan served eight years (20042012) on the Board of Directors for the Utah Coalition for Education Technology (UCET) He was reelected in 2014 to serve another two year term on the board. A former elementary school teacher, Nathan has taught students every age from young children to senior citizens. He has had the opportunity beginning in 2011 to train international high school teachers from all over the world about technology in education, through the U.S. State