Teacher Tip
Although it may take several days to fully teach and assess the identified indicator/objective, students should still be able to answer the Challenge Question at the end of each lesson. Consider scaffolding your Challenge Question so that each question leads students to eventual mastery of the identified content.
Connecting the Challenge Question to the State Curriculum
Teachers use the state or district curriculum to draft the Challenge Question. Once you identify the specific objective to teach and assess, reword that objective in student friendly language. This becomes your daily student objective. To develop a Challenge Question, reword the daily student objective into a question. See the example below:
Example:
Indicator:
◦Recognize and describe the processes involved with changing materials from 
one state to another.
Objectives:
◦Classify materials as solids, liquids, and gases.
◦Recognize that heating causes liquids to evaporate changing them to gases.
◦Recognize that cooling causes gases to condense into liquids.
Challenge Question: How does temperature affect solids, liquids, and gases?
