Group Visits

Playing to Learn is SERIOUS FUN at The Iowa Children's Museum!

The ICM currently offers three different types of fun-filled, educational field trips for your class or group to enjoy!


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Focused Field Trip

For more information about specific Focused Field Trips, please visit the links below. To reserve a focused field trip for your group, please call Nicole Palmer at 319.625.6255 ext. 216 or email npalmer@theicm.org

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The Notion of Motion - The Science of Movement

Experience the thrill of balls rolling, looping and racing down ramps, up hills and through tunnels while constructing concepts related to the physics of motion. As students build racecars, tracks and mazes, they apply their understandings of motion by experimenting with the Roller Coaster, ICM Speedway, Loop the Loop, Hit the Bucket and Rollways. Together, you'll discover that balls and ramps have never been so much fun!

We're recently added a climbing wall to help kids understand the force of gravity firsthand!

Level 1: Grades K-2
Level 2: Grades 3-6

Curriculum Standards for Math

  • Mathematics and Problem Solving, Standard 1
  • Mathematics as Communication, Standard 2
  • Mathematics as Number Sense and Numeration, Standard 6
  • Mathematics as Concept of Whole Number Computation, Standard 8
  • Mathematics as Whole Number Computation, Standard 8
  • Mathematics as Measurement, Standard 10

National Science Education Standards

All students should develop an understanding of objects and materials

  • All students should develop an understanding of position and motion of objects.
  • An object's motion can be described by indicating the change in its position over time (speed).
  • All students should develop an understanding of motions and forces. The motion of an object can be described by its position, direction of motion and speed. This motion can be measured and can be represented on a graph.