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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.

Stream Bank Erosion

This video shows Mr. Mesick next to Stafford Creek and images of a...

Flood Walls or Wetlands for Flood Mitigation

The winter and spring of 2019 set several records in the Quad Cities...

Record Breaking Precipitation and Floods in Iowa

The Winter and Spring of 2019 set several records in the Quad Cities...

Mushrooms as Decomposers

The video contains several images of fungi that were found in an Iowa...

Drastic Weather Changes

The video includes weather images and data from April 2020 in Iowa.

Mariposa Lake Draining

Lake Mariposa had high levels of phosphorus and poor water quality...

Rainbows & Sundogs

The images included are of double rainbows and sundogs. These occur...

Fens

A fen may appear to be just another wet area, until you walk on it...

Glacial Erratics

The video provides a walkthrough of a field that contains some large...

Carter Lake, Iowa Located in Nebraska

This video shows an aerial map of Carter Lake at the Iowa-Nebraska...

Black Squirrels

It’s hard to go outside in Iowa without noticing a squirrel. And while...

Liquid in Burning Tree

As the branch heated up in the campfire, a liquid started dripping out...

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