Both baseball and astronauts provide fun ways to teach students about physics! Use the start of the 2018 Major League Baseball season to create a learning doubleheader for your young students. Visit the NASA Space Place website to join Carlos and Dr. Doreen in their lively conversation about the “Law of Equal Oomph.” Then, jump over to the STEM on Station website for STEMonstrations — watch astronauts as they demonstrate Newton’s Laws of Motion in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station.
Find more ways to bring NASA into your classroom during NASA’s A Year of Education on Station, a celebration of an almost 12-month presence of a teacher aboard the International Space Station.
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
