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Welcome to the Iowa Science Phenomena website! The goal of this website and service is to create, curate, collect and share a growing collection of user-generated, media-based, standards aligned, science phenomena resources for use in Iowa classrooms, as well as support Iowa teachers as they continue to implement phenomena-based and place-based teaching practices.

There are several ways you can be involved in this project:

Questions? Please contact us at phenomena@iowapbs.org.

Clean Water and Farm Pollution Lawsuit

This video discusses a lawsuit claiming that farm runoff is harming...

Invasive Species in Iowa's Forests

This video shows Oriental (or Asiatic) bittersweet, a vine-like plant...

Gitchie Manitou State Preserve and Sioux Quartzite

Shown are the Gitchie Manitou State Preserve and its Sioux Quartzite...

Frog Call Monitoring

Volunteers around Iowa collect frog call data from a variety of species.

Firat Erdam's Kite Choir

This video features an artist that created a special kind of kite to...

Backbone State Park Limestone

This video shows the extensive exposed limestone features at Backbone...

Iowa Bee Colonies

The provided graphs show how Iowa’s bee colony population has been...

Anatomical Comparison: Femur

Femur bones of different species have different lengths.

Albino Squirrels

These images show an albino squirrel on the trunk of a tree.

Bird Genders

This slideshow provides several examples of Iowa bird species with...

Prescribed Burning

The image shows a prairie area being intentionally burned. These well...

Eutrophication

Iowa has a lot of nonpoint source pollution that contributes to...

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