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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.
After an apple is split open and exposed to oxygen, the flesh slowly...
In 2019 the Mississippi River flooded in Davenport, Iowa. At a height...
Milk is collected from cows and, after a while, the milk forms two...
One photo was taken at the Highland Elementary School in Waterloo...
Waverly, Iowa, is built around the Cedar River which overflowed in the...
It was 8:22 p.m. on July 22 in Decorah, Iowa, in the summer of 2023...
The Eastern Iowa tornado of March 2023 demolished a century farm in...
Retention ponds are artificial structures used to retain and treat...
Some plants, such as herbaceous plants (peonies) and crab apple (...
Many species of freshwater fish are attracted to colored lures or...
Exotic bush honeysuckles are native to Eurasia (Japan, China, Korea...
“Al dente” means “to the tooth” in Italian and refers to the ideal...
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