California Education Standards met at the
San Luis Obispo 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.

KINDERGARTEN

1ST FLOOR

Lava Tube
• Properties of materials can be observed, measured, and predicted.
• Observe common objects by using the five senses.

Sabertooth Cat
• Different types of plants and animals inhabit the earth.

Claymation Volcano
• Properties of materials can be observed, measured, and predicted.

Magnet Table
• Students know how to identify resources from Earth that are used in everyday life.

Shake Table
• Properties of materials can be observed, measured, and predicted.

Earth Organ
• Properties of materials can be observed, measured, and predicted.
• Observe common objects by using the five senses.

2ND FLOOR

Zoomtown Clock
• Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.

Climber
• Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.
• Observe common objects by using the five senses.

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

Cosmic Cafe
• Students know how to identify resources from the Earth that are used in everyday life, and that many  resources can be conserved.

What’s Up Doc
• Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.

Farmer’s Market
• Different types of plants and animals inhabit the earth.
• Students know how to identify major structures of common plants.

OUTDOORS

Sunflower
• Students know how to identify resources from Earth that are used in everyday life and understand that many resources can be conserved.

Water Table
• Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.
• Water can be a liquid or a solid and can be made to change back and forth from one form to the other.
• Objects can be described in terms of the materials they are made of and their physical properties.