The Classroom Challenge is no longer active,
but this site subsection with the former program's handbook, resources, and web series remains available as our Teacher Toolkit to help you tackle your local water issues!
About the Teacher Toolkit
The Teacher Toolkit is a collection of past resources from the former Cal Water H2O Challenge's Classroom Challenge. This program is no longer active; however, it ran for nine years, from 2014 to 2023, as a project-based, environmentally-focused competition for classrooms, grades 4-6. Brought to you in conjunction with DoGoodery, the WestEd K-12 Alliance, and Cal Water, the Classroom Challenge aligned with the Common Core State Standards and was complementary to the Next Generation Science Standards, and included recommendations on how it could be integrated within your classrooms, while meeting curriculum goals. Through this integration, the Classroom Challenge offered a unique opportunity for upper elementary teachers to facilitate their students' learning of standards-based content, while developing the core understanding of environmental principles necessary to becoming science-literate citizens.
Resources:
Many of this program's past resources are still available for use as our Teacher Toolkit. Although the Challenge is no longer offered, handbooks and other resources remain accessible for any teachers looking for tips on how to integrate project-based learning initiatives into their own classrooms.