California Education Standards met at the
San LuisObispo Children’s Museum: SCIENCE

The San Luis Obispo Children’s Museum inspires learning through play. Play at the Museum takes place in a series of rich environments that provide children with opportunities to learn by doing. Many of these opportunities directly relate to the education standards supported by the state of California. Though the value of a day spent at the Museum cannot be described simply in terms of the education standards that it meets, we have highlighted standards that speak directly to the Museum experience.

THIRD GRADE

1ST FLOOR0

Lava Tube
• Students know the color of light striking an object affects the way the object is seen.
• Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.

Sabertooth Cat Dig
• Adaptations in physical structure or behavior may improve an organism’s chance for survival.
• Students know that some kinds of organisms that once lived on Earth have completely disappeared and that some of those resembled others that are alive today.

Claymation Volcano
• Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.
• Predict the outcome of a simple investigation and compare the result with the prediction.
• Repeat observations to improve accuracy and know that the results of similar scientific  investigations seldom turn out exactly the same because of difference in the things being investigated, methods being used, or uncertainty in the observation.

Shake Table
• Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.

Magnet Table
• Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.
• Students will predict the outcome of a simple investigation and compare the result with the  prediction.

Playmotion
• Students know energy can be carried from one place to another by moving objects.
• Students know that light is reflected from mirrors and other surfaces.
• Students know that the color of light striking an object affects the way the object is seen.

Earth Organ
• Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.
• Students know energy can be carried from one place to another by waves, such as water
waves and sound waves, by electric current, and by moving objects.

2ND FLOOR

Cosmic Coaster
• Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.

OUTDOORS

Sunflower
• Energy and matter have multiple forms and can be changed from one form to another.
• Students know energy comes from the Sun to earth in the form of light.
• Students know energy can be carried from one place to another by waves.