Grade 10 Project
Quillback Creek Rainwater Cistern: A Grade 10 Design Project
Grade 10 teams size a rainwater cistern for a school garden, priced by tank surface area, to store 4,000 gallons on a 12-foot pad for $6,000 or less.
Water Engineering & Design · Grade 10
Students take on design and testing challenges drawn from real infrastructure, including filters, towers, dams, and stormwater improvements, with budgets and constraints.
26 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 10 Graphic organizer
Burnthorpe Dam Cause-and-Effect Chain: Retrofit or Remove
A grade 10 cause-effect chain organizer tracing six consequences of a fictional aging river dam and pairing each one with the engineering response it calls for.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
Dovegate Cast-Iron Mains: Pipe Lining or Open-Cut Replacement
A grade 10 lesson comparing cured-in-place lining with open-cut replacement for a fictional town's 1920s water mains, using annualized cost and a break-even price.
Grade 10 Graphic organizer
Driftlow Avenue New Main: A Commissioning Sequence Organizer
A grade 10 sequence organizer for putting a fictional new water main into service, pairing each construction step with its acceptance test and its failure path.
Grade 10 Classroom activity
Hobbleton Ridge Percolation Stations: Sizing a Drainfield
A grade 10 station rotation sizing a soil absorption field for a fictional rural school, from a percolation test through trench layout, reserve area, and tank volume.
Grade 10 Worksheet
Pennyford Sanitary Sewer: Inflow and Infiltration Math
A grade 10 worksheet measuring storm water leaking into a fictional town's sanitary sewer, then pricing the extra treatment and testing what a lining project would fix.
Grade 10 Classroom activity
Pikehaven Valve Isolation Drill: Shutting Down a Main Break
Grade 10 teams work a fictional distribution loop, choose the valves that isolate a broken main, and calculate the customers and gallons taken out of service.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
Pinewattle Flats Aquifer Storage and Recovery Feasibility
A grade 10 lesson sizing an aquifer storage and recovery scheme for a fictional town, from winter surplus and recovery efficiency to the number of injection wells.
Grade 10 Graphic organizer
Quarryfen Wellfield Protection Zones: A Land-Use Organizer
A grade 10 organizer mapping four wellhead protection zones around a fictional public well, matching the threats in each zone to controls and to who enforces them.
Grade 10 Classroom activity
Vellamore Reverse Osmosis Troubleshooting Rounds
A grade 10 station rotation where teams read operating data from four fictional membrane trains, calculate flow and salt passage changes, and diagnose each fault.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
Alderfen PFAS Monitoring Plan: A Grade 10 Design Lesson
A 50-minute grade 10 engineering lesson where students set criteria for a PFAS sampling plan and convert and average trace results against the 4.0 ppt limit.
Grade 10 Worksheet
Cinderhill Wellfield Capacity: A Grade 10 Drawdown Worksheet
A grade 10 engineering worksheet on groundwater supply: students find well drawdown and specific capacity, combine well yields, and model yield as a function of drawdown.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
Ferris Landing Lead Line Program: A Grade 10 Design Lesson
A 55-minute grade 10 lesson where students break a lead service line replacement program into stages and calculate the yearly pace and cost to meet a 10-year deadline.
Grade 10 Math problem set
Kestrel Junction PFAS Adsorber: A Grade 10 GAC Sizing Problem Set
Grade 10 engineering math sizing a granular activated carbon adsorber for PFAS removal: flow splits, loading rate, bed volume, contact time, and the 4.0 ppt limit.
Grade 10 Quiz & test questions
Kilnbury Water Main Thrust Blocks: A Grade 10 Design Test
A grade 10 engineering unit test on thrust restraint: students find the force at a capped end and at a bend, then size the concrete block that holds the fitting.
Grade 10 Worksheet
Marlin Cove Water Main: A Grade 10 Pipe Hydraulics Worksheet
A grade 10 worksheet sizing a fictional coastal water main: cross-sectional area, flow-to-velocity conversions, and the pressure a tank height delivers to the taps.
Grade 10 Lab / experiment
Settling Column Test: A Grade 10 Sedimentation Design Lab
A grade 10 lab where students test how a coagulant changes how fast cloudy water clears, then connect the result to sedimentation basin design.
Grade 10 Lab / experiment
Comparing Column Filter Media: A Grade 10 Turbidity Design Lab
A grade 10 engineering lab where students build column filters, change the media, and test which design clears cloudy water best while keeping an acceptable flow rate.
Grade 10 Worksheet
Grindstone Reservoir Elevated Tank: Volume and Pressure Worksheet
A grade 10 engineering worksheet on a fictional elevated storage tank, calculating tank volume and the water pressure its height delivers to neighborhoods below.
Grade 10 Math problem set
Halcyon Springs Brackish RO Pilot: Recovery and Rejection Problems
A grade 10 engineering math set on a fictional brackish reverse-osmosis pilot: percent recovery, salt rejection, a concentrate mass balance, and energy use.
Grade 10 Project
Merritt Hollow's Water Supply Gap: A Drought Portfolio Project
A grade 10 engineering project where teams size well, reuse, conservation, and desalination options to close a fictional town's water-supply gap on a budget.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
Osprey Flats Secondary Treatment: A Wastewater Design Lesson
A 55-minute grade 10 engineering lesson: students split a wastewater plant into stages and find the removal efficiency needed to meet the secondary standard.
Grade 10 Worksheet
Pellworth Booster Pump Station: Run-Time and Energy Worksheet
A grade 10 engineering worksheet sizing a fictional booster pump's daily run-time, pipe velocity, and energy use, and writing a gallons-versus-time equation.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
Tanager Ridge Parking Lot Runoff: A Bioretention Design Lesson
A 55-minute grade 10 engineering lesson where students calculate parking-lot runoff and size a bioretention cell to capture it within a fixed footprint.