Champions of Discovery – September 2023 Challenge
September 2023 Challenge
Find the science in your daily lives...
in your community, at home, and at school.
Science is everywhere, hiding in plain sight.
Where do you find science?
Assign one or more of the September Challenge prompts (in whichever format you prefer) to your students
(slides, google docs, printed sheets, notebooks).
You can use the tools below that contain the suggested prompts for this challenge
Submit 3-5 Representative Samples
(your slide deck, google docs, or photos of student work) from your class to the September Challenge Form
All submissions due by February 29, 2024
We May Publicly Share Images of Student Work, so please only share photos or student work that CRS may share out.
Sample Prompts:
Grades TK-2
- Some ways I use science every day in my school, community, and at home are____.
- I see science when I ____________. It makes me wonder about ____________.
- I see science when __(person)____________ does/makes__(activity)__________.
Grades 3-5
- I use science everyday in my school, community, and at home.
- I see science when I ____________. It makes me wonder ____________.
- Another way I see science at home is when (person) ________ does/makes (activity) _________.
- I see science in my school when __________. That makes me wonder about ____________.
Ready made tools with the prompts to share with your students.
Click on buttons below to create a copy of a google slide deck or printable document.
Optional Resources
To set the stage for this challenge, first engage your students in the question: What is science? Introduce the word science and ask students what the word science means. Listen to students’ ideas and reinforce the notion that you can find a science (or engineering) connection in everything!
- Download a Copy of CRS What is Science? Slide deck (English)
- Download a Copy of CRS What is Science? Slide deck (Spanish)
- Download a copy of this CRS Science Scavenger Hunt slide deck as a resource for doing scavenger hunt activity in class, or to set the stage for assigning it as homework, or to do together as a class activity after students have done it at home
Examples of September's Challenge
Click on an image above to view a larger version of an example Challenge submission.