Science Center classes Meet Iowa Core Content Standards:

Science Benchmarks

Students can:

• Understand and apply skills used in scientific inquiry.
• Understand and apply the processes and skills of scientific inquiry.
• Analyze and interpret scientific information.

Students can:

• Understand concepts and relationships in life science.
• Understand structures of living things.

Students can:

• Understand concepts and relationships in Earth/space sciences.
• Understand ideas about Earth’s composition and structure.

Students can:

• Understand concepts and relationships in physical science.
• Understand and apply concepts related to mechanics, forces, and motion.
• Understand and apply the concept of energy.
• Understand and identify properties and changes of matter.

Some classes may also branch over to other standards/benchmarks in the Iowa Core Standards, worksheets and readings can be adjusted to meet such standards.

Math Standards

Students can

• Understand and apply a variety of math concepts Students can understand and apply methods of estimation.
• Students can solve a variety of math problems Students can interpret data presented in a variety of ways.

Literacy Standards

Students can

• Students can comprehend what they read in a variety of literary and informational texts.