These materials cover water policy, geography, economics, and history, including how rate hearings work, how rivers shape settlement, and how communities govern a shared resource.
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Grades 10–11 Debate kit
A structured classroom debate on whether a drought-stressed city should purify wastewater into drinking water, with a two-sided evidence file built from real projects.
Grade 10 Project
A five-session grade 10 project in which students draft a watershed overlay ordinance and staff report for a fictional town facing a subdivision above its reservoir.
Grade 10 Worksheet
A grade 10 worksheet on a fictional city aqueduct, with a seventy-year population and farmland table students use to trace how one decision moved people.
Grade 10 Graphic organizer
A grade 10 cause-and-effect organizer tracing a federal PFAS limit through state primacy, a utility decision, and a rate case to a fictional household's bill.
Grade 10 Debate kit
A grade 10 debate kit on a per-gallon groundwater fee for bottling plants, with two-sided evidence, role notes, a written case brief, and a four-level rubric.
Grade 10 Worksheet
A grade 10 worksheet using a fictional county's twenty-year crop table to analyze how a shift from hay to orchards moved water into distant trade.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
A grade 10 lesson comparing acreage voting with resident voting in a fictional irrigation district, using vote shares and assessment shares students calculate.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
A grade 10 lesson in which students weigh three sites for a fictional city's wastewater plant expansion against a neighborhood's cumulative-burden objection.
Grade 10 Worksheet
A grade 10 civics worksheet on a fictional state bill requiring private well tests at home sale, with committee roll call, testimony, and two amendments.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
A grade 10 lesson in which student staff teams weigh restrictions, a drought surcharge, and rebates to meet a fictional governor's emergency conservation order.
Grade 10 Writing prompt
A grade 10 argument prompt asking students to recommend annual lead testing, filtered filling stations, or both to a fictional school board, with exemplar and rubric.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
A grade 10 lesson where students size roof runoff and cistern storage for a fictional town, then compare a rebate program with a public detention basin.
Grade 10 Worksheet
A grade 10 worksheet in which students plot four public pumps in a fictional mill town, compute case rates per 100 households, and weigh the evidence.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
A grade 10 lesson in which students cost three disposal options for a fictional plant's biosolids, then argue the choice at a simulated district board hearing.
Grade 10 Reading passage
A grade 10 passage on a fictional city's switch to chloramine, the byproduct problem behind it, and the objections raised at two public hearings.
Grade 10 Worksheet
A grade 10 worksheet on a fictional district's annual water quality report, where students convert between ppm, ppb, and ppt and compare results to limits.
Grade 10 Debate kit
A grade 10 debate kit on a state bill that would merge a fictional village's troubled water system into a larger regional authority, with two-sided evidence.
Grade 10 Worksheet
A grade 10 worksheet using five years of snowpack and runoff data from a fictional basin to test a reservoir's flood rule against a drought shortfall.
Grade 10 Writing prompt
A grade 10 argument prompt on a fictional township's vote on a data center's groundwater agreement, with drawdown and tax data, an exemplar, and a rubric.
Grade 10 Project
A five-session grade 10 project in which students map a fictional community on failing wells, cost three service options, and argue one to a county board.
Grade 10 Lesson plan
A grade 10 lesson on a fictional water authority's staffing gap, where students compute shift coverage and vacancy rates and weigh overtime against hiring.
Grade 10 Worksheet
A grade 10 geography worksheet using a described map of the fictional Averill Valley to explain why mills, rail stops, and towns grew where they did.
Grade 10 Reading passage
A grade 10 passage on the cost of replacing America's aging water pipes, from infrastructure report card grades to the federal needs estimate, with policy questions.
Grade 10 Reading passage
A grade 10 passage comparing the Carlsbad desalination plant with Orange County's groundwater replenishment system as two regional answers to drought.