Excellence in Elementary Science Teaching & Learning
The goal of this challenge is to show how you and your students explore & discover throughout the year. Select prompts that fit with what you are doing in class and have your students respond (drawings, writing in a journal, or up to you).
Do the challenges anytime, in any order! Complete 4 or more by February 27.
Just start. You are doing more than you think you are. Take pictures of student work and see which categories that lesson fits into. I bet there will be more than one!
- Berkeley Elementary Teacher
Some ways I use science in my life are____________. I see science when (person)____________ does/makes (activity)__________.
I see science in my school when __________. That makes me wonder about ____________.
We are learning about ___________, and it makes me wonder__________________.
Right now, I think ___________ might be because ___________. It reminds me of ___________.
I met (or learned about) a scientist who studies ____________. It inspired me because ______________.
Something I have in common with the scientists is ______________.
This is what I look like when I am doing science (Draw or describe with words)
When we studied ____________ outside, I was surprised to find out ____________.
We learned about ____________.
We decided to help make our community/school better by ____________ because ____________.
We counted or measured _______________ and learned that ______________________.
We gathered data about ____________. I was surprised to learn ____________.
This is what my data looks like (Draw or show your graph)
One way science will be a part of my future is ___________.
My science hero is ___________ because ___________. I can imagine becoming a scientist who studies ___________.
The "Champion of Discovery fame" was a prize in itself! A school board member sent me an email congratulating me. My principal gave me a shout out in her weekly newsletter and mentioned it at a PTA meeting.