Grade 10 Project
Ostlin's Drought Plan: A Spreadsheet Water Budget
A five-session grade 10 project where teams build a monthly spreadsheet water budget for a growing town, stress-test it, and choose a 15-year drought plan.
Water Science · Grade 10
These materials teach earth science, chemistry, biology, and physics through water systems, from the water cycle to treatment chemistry.
59 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 10 Lesson plan
Aldenbury's Aquifer Storage and Recovery Wells
A 55-minute grade 10 lesson on storing treated water underground, where students calculate injected volume, recovery efficiency, and chloride in the recovered blend.
Grade 10 Debate kit
Should Cardington Switch to Chloramine Disinfection?
A grade 10 science debate kit on converting a city's distribution system from free chlorine to chloramine, with two-sided evidence on byproducts, residual, and risk.
Grade 10 Classroom activity
Ferrowdale Main Break: An Operations Tabletop
A 55-minute grade 10 tabletop exercise where student crews isolate a broken water main in timed rounds and calculate lost water, tank drawdown, and zone pressure.
Grade 10 Writing prompt
Halgrave's Water Audit: Explaining the Missing Third
A grade 10 science explanatory prompt where students use a town water audit to explain apparent losses, real losses, and how three repairs change river withdrawals.
Grade 10 Debate kit
Should Harroway Sell Water to a New Data Center?
A grade 10 science debate kit on a town water contract for a data center, weighing evaporative cooling against closed-loop cooling and the energy each design uses.
Grade 10 Writing prompt
Stormwater Rules for the Mardenfield Mill Site
A grade 10 science argument prompt where students take a position on whether a redevelopment must control runoff on site or pay into a downstream detention basin.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
Sizing Sattersley's Constructed Treatment Wetland
A 60-minute grade 10 lesson where students size a constructed wetland that strips nitrogen from treated wastewater, using loading rate and detention time.
Grade 10 Classroom activity
Westhorne's Cross-Connection Hazard Hunt Stations
A 50-minute grade 10 station rotation where teams inspect six cross-connection sites, choose backflow assemblies, and calculate the pressures that drive backflow.
Grade 10 Reading passage
Why the Yarncombe Valley Sinks in Every Dry Year
A grade 10 science reading passage on land subsidence in a farming valley, with benchmark survey data and questions on clay compaction and the pumping feedback loop.
Grade 10 Worksheet
Chlorine Loss in Sarnwick's Pipes: Testing Two Decay Models
Grade 10 students test a constant-loss model against a halving model of chlorine residual, using sample readings from a fictional town's pressure zone.
Grade 10 Worksheet
Stonehaven Wellfield and Ledger Creek: Testing Two Explanations
A grade 10 science worksheet where students weigh monitoring-well and stream gauge records to decide whether a fictional town's wellfield or a drought drained a creek.
Grade 10 Worksheet
Aldermere Plant UV Disinfection: Dose and Log Inactivation
A grade 10 science worksheet where students calculate ultraviolet dose from intensity and contact time, then test it against a fictional plant's inactivation targets.
Grade 10 Quiz & test questions
Ashcombe River Basin: A Water Cycle and Earth Systems Quiz
A grade 10 science quiz mixing multiple-choice, short-answer, and computation items on residence time, water distribution, and Earth-system feedbacks.
Grade 10 Math problem set
Ashford Reservoir Water Budget: Acre-Feet and Days of Supply
A grade 10 problem set at the fictional Ashford Reservoir, building a drought water budget in acre-feet and solving an equation for the days until a critical low level.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
Bell Hollow Lake: Nutrients as Resource and Pollutant
A 45-minute grade 10 lesson tracing how excess nutrients drive an algal bloom and oxygen crash, then having students design a nutrient-reduction solution.
Grade 10 Worksheet
Braemar Wells GAC Treatment for PFAS: Carbon Bed Breakthrough
A grade 10 science worksheet on PFAS removal, carbon contact time, and breakthrough for a fictional district's activated-carbon vessels, with a treatment trade-off.
Grade 10 Quiz & test questions
Brightwater Utility Operations: A Grade 10 Unit Test
A 30-minute grade 10 unit test on the fictional Brightwater Utility, mixing multiple-choice, short-answer, and computation items on disinfection, turbidity, and pressure.
Grade 10 Worksheet
Calumet Heights Lead Service Lines: Reading the New Rule
A grade 10 worksheet on the fictional Calumet Heights system: students find a 90th-percentile lead reading, compare it to a tightening action level, and plan replacement.
Grade 10 Math problem set
Crestview Booster Pump: Horsepower, Energy, and Operating Cost
A grade 10 problem set where students chain the water-horsepower formula through efficiency to find a fictional pump station's daily energy use and cost.
Grade 10 Worksheet
Elderbrook Water Hardness: From Limestone to Lime Softening
A grade 10 chemistry worksheet on water hardness, converting between mg/L and grains per gallon and finding softening removal for a fictional utility.
Grade 10 Reading passage
How the Elmscott Plant Turns Sewage into Water and Energy
A grade 10 science passage on wastewater treatment, tracing the stages a fictional reclamation plant uses to clean sewage and recover energy from sludge.
Grade 10 Math problem set
Fallowbrook Reclamation: Solids Loading and Digester Detention
Ten linked grade 10 problems that follow solids from a primary clarifier through an anaerobic digester to dewatered cake, using the pounds formula and tank volumes.
Grade 10 Math problem set
Glenmoor Clearwell: Chlorine Contact Time and CT Values
A grade 10 problem set on disinfection where students size a clearwell, find contact time with a baffling factor, and compute the CT a fictional plant achieves.