On April 22nd, 2014, the BSU Microgravity Team had the opportunity to go to Marian Pritchett high
school and work with pregnant teens and teen moms.
We taught these young women about Newton’s Laws of Motion using NASA Toys in Space Curriculum. The girls create their own experiments to explore these laws further and hypothesized how the various toys would perform within a microgravity environment.
We ended our outreach with these young mothers, by inviting their toddler children in and doing a "mommy and me" science session. During this session we exposed these young women to ways that they can expose their children to science early though play, by tapping into their toddler's natural curiosity and probing their children's thinking through questioning. The team helped these young moms learn how to provide the earliest building blocks of scientific literacy and discovery in their toddler children.
We taught these young women about Newton’s Laws of Motion using NASA Toys in Space Curriculum. The girls create their own experiments to explore these laws further and hypothesized how the various toys would perform within a microgravity environment.
We ended our outreach with these young mothers, by inviting their toddler children in and doing a "mommy and me" science session. During this session we exposed these young women to ways that they can expose their children to science early though play, by tapping into their toddler's natural curiosity and probing their children's thinking through questioning. The team helped these young moms learn how to provide the earliest building blocks of scientific literacy and discovery in their toddler children.
