Grade 11 Lesson plan
Wystan Gorge and the New Deal Dams: Hydropower Trade-Offs
A grade 11 science and history lesson on why the New Deal built giant dams, how hydropower works, and the cost-benefit trade-offs of a fictional dam proposal.
Water Science · Grade 11
These materials teach earth science, chemistry, biology, and physics through water systems, from the water cycle to treatment chemistry.
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Grade 11 Math problem set
Ashcombe Plant Expansion: Filter Loading Rate and Area Design
Grade 11 students convert a fictional plant's flow to gallons per minute and design a filter's minimum surface area that satisfies its loading-rate constraint.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Bramblewood Creek Farms: Cutting Nitrogen Runoff to the Stream
A grade 11 lesson where students calculate a fictional farm's nitrate reduction from cover crops and design an added practice to cut nitrogen runoff to a stream.
Grade 11 Reading passage
Field Notes From Corrigan Lake: A Summer of Algae and Oxygen Loss
A grade 11 narrative reading passage of a limnology intern's field notes tracing nitrate runoff, an algae bloom, and a dissolved-oxygen crash at a fictional lake.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Fenwick Hollow's Bacteria: Nitrification, Denitrification, and Removal
Grade 11 students trace how two bacterial processes strip nitrogen from wastewater at a fictional plant and calculate removal efficiency and pounds removed per day.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Marrow Creek's Forever Chemicals: PFAS Bonds and Treatment Trade-offs
Grade 11 students connect carbon-fluorine bond strength to PFAS persistence, compare fictional well results to the federal limit, and evaluate treatment options.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Sable Cove's Drought Plan: Reverse Osmosis and Its Energy Cost
A grade 11 lesson pairing the real Carlsbad desalination plant with a fictional coastal town's energy-cost comparison to teach reverse osmosis and drought trade-offs.
Grade 11 Debate kit
Chlorine or UV at Thistlewood: A Water Disinfection Debate Kit
A grade 11 debate kit on whether a fictional utility should replace chlorine with UV disinfection, weighing residual protection against chemical byproducts and handling.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Thornbury's Jar Test: Coagulation Chemistry and Turbidity Removal
Grade 11 students calculate turbidity-removal percentages from a fictional plant's alum jar test and explain coagulation using particle surface charge.
Grade 11 Math problem set
Winterset Well 6: Fitting a Regression Line to a Nitrate Trend
Grade 11 students fit a regression line to fictional groundwater nitrate readings, predict a future value, and compute a correlation coefficient.
Grade 11 Lab / experiment
Surface Tension and Hydrogen Bonding: A Coin-and-Droplet Lab
A grade 11 chemistry lab where students measure surface tension with a penny-and-dropper method, comparing plain water to a surfactant solution to study hydrogen bonding.