Grade 11 Lesson plan
A Water Main Break in Ledbury: A Multi-Perspective Narrative Lesson
A grade 11 ELA lesson where students write a multi-perspective narrative of a winter main break and boil-water advisory in a fictional town.
Water English Language Arts · Grade 11
Reading passages, essays, and argument writing are grounded in genuine water issues, from informational texts about treatment plants to editorials on proposed rate increases.
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Grade 11 Writing prompt
Who Pays for Linden Park's Lead Pipes? An Argument Prompt
A grade 11 argument prompt on whether a fictional city should use public funds to replace the private side of residents' lead service lines.
Grade 11 Reading passage
Keeping a Chlorine Residual at Marden Creek: Water Chemistry
A grade 11 informational passage on chlorine demand and residual, using a fictional plant and a sampling table students interpret to judge safety.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Reverse Osmosis at Marisco Bay: An Informative Writing Lesson
A grade 11 ELA lesson where students turn a technical description of reverse osmosis into a clear, well-sequenced exhibit panel for a fictional desal plant.
Grade 11 Reading passage
How the Netherfell Creek Gage Turns Height into Flow
A grade 11 informational passage on stream gaging at a fictional creek, with a rating table students use to judge what a public streamflow number really reports.
Grade 11 Debate kit
Should Norbeck County Approve the Data Center's Wells? A Debate Kit
A grade 11 debate kit on a fictional county's decision about groundwater withdrawals for a data center, with two-sided evidence, roles, and a rubric.
Grade 11 Writing prompt
Explaining a PFAS Detection to Northbrook: An Explanatory Prompt
A grade 11 explanatory writing prompt: turn a fictional town's PFAS well results and treatment options into a plain-language explainer for residents.
Grade 11 Reading passage
Backflow at Oakhythe: How One Hose Reached the Water Main
A grade 11 informational passage on cross-connections and backflow, with a fictional pressure log students read alongside the account of a contaminated street.
Grade 11 Writing prompt
Selling Rushton's Water System: A Utility Ownership Argument Prompt
A grade 11 argument writing prompt on whether a fictional town should sell its water system to a private company, with sources, organizer, exemplar, and rubric.
Grade 11 Quiz & test questions
Recovering Phosphorus at Selport: A Reading Analysis Quiz
A 30-point grade 11 quiz pairing an original explainer on nutrient recovery at a fictional plant with a concentration table students read and write from.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Sereno Valley's Water Budget Op-Ed: A Rhetoric Worksheet
A grade 11 ELA worksheet analyzing an original op-ed on tiered water-budget pricing, ending with a student-written rebuttal on outdoor water use.
Grade 11 Worksheet
The Sturminster Overflow Interview: Writing Follow-Up Questions
A grade 11 worksheet on a transcript in which a student reporter questions a fictional public works director after a sewer overflow, then drafts follow-up questions.
Grade 11 Reading passage
Pumping Water Uphill to Tolman Ridge: How Pressure Moves Supply
A grade 11 informational passage on elevation, pressure, and booster pumps, using a fictional hillside town and a pressure table students must interpret.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Two Editorials on Removing Vardon Dam: Syntax and Stance
A grade 11 ELA lesson analyzing agent deletion, nominalization, and concession in two fictional op-eds about a dam, then writing an argument paragraph.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Hedging and Certainty in the Vellamy Ridge Well Memo
A grade 11 worksheet on hedges, absolutes, and agentless passives in a draft engineering memo about a fictional well whose yield fell across one summer.
Grade 11 Quiz & test questions
Reading Weatherby's Sampling Procedure: A Close-Reading Quiz
A grade 11 ELA assessment on close reading of a fictional plant's sampling procedure, with 12 items worth 50 points across recall, inference, and revision.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Anders Fork Watershed: Reading a Turbidity and Streamflow Table
A grade 11 worksheet where students read a field report and a fictional watershed's turbidity data table, calculating percent change and interpreting a spike.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Bellmont's Water Bond: An Argument Writing Lesson on Local Government
A grade 11 lesson connecting real infrastructure data to a fictional town's water bond vote, as students write a claim-and-counterclaim letter to the town council.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Corrigan Falls' Lead Line Op-Ed: A Rhetorical Analysis Worksheet
A grade 11 worksheet where students analyze a persuasive op-ed on replacing lead lines in a fictional town, identifying claim, evidence, and counterclaim.
Grade 11 Debate kit
Should Fenwick Approve a Water Infrastructure Bond? A Debate Kit
A grade 11 debate kit on whether a fictional town should approve a water infrastructure bond, using real data on aging pipes, rising bills, and affordability.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Harlow Springs' PFAS Report: An Informative Writing Lesson
A grade 11 lesson where students translate a dense PFAS drinking-water regulation into a clear public FAQ paragraph for a fictional utility.
Grade 11 Reading passage
Hoover Dam and the Colorado River: Engineering, Power, and Policy
A grade 11 informational passage on why Hoover Dam was built, how it turns flowing water into electricity, and the interstate compact governing the river it holds back.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Operator or Engineer? A Water Careers Research and Writing Lesson
A grade 11 lesson where students synthesize two real water-career profiles, an operator and a civil engineer, into a short comparative paragraph.
Grade 11 Reading passage
Inside Activated Sludge: How Microbes Clean Water at Ridgeline
A grade 11 informational passage on activated-sludge treatment, using a fictional facility to explain how bacteria remove waste and why stream oxygen levels matter.