Grade 11 Lesson plan
The 1902 Reclamation Act: A Grade 11 Document-Based Inquiry
A grade 11 U.S. history inquiry in which students source, contextualize, and corroborate five stakeholder statements and a timeline on the 1902 Reclamation Act.
Water Social Studies & Civics · Grade 11
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.
41 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 11 Worksheet
Who Pays for Runoff: The Brindmoor Stormwater Fee Appeals
Students compute impervious-area stormwater charges for a fictional city, then judge whether the charge is a fee or a tax and whether its credit changes behavior.
Grade 11 Graphic organizer
Four Ways a Town Can Own Its Water: A Grade 11 Governance Frame
A four-column comparison organizer for grade 11 civics, mapping ownership, rate setting, appeal routes, and voter access across four water governance models.
Grade 11 Writing prompt
Twelve-Hour Water Notices for Illerton: A Grade 11 Argument Prompt
Students argue whether a fictional state should make water systems notify every customer within twelve hours of a violation, weighing trust against small-system cost.
Grade 11 Debate kit
Relicense or Remove the Kilnwood Dam: A Grade 11 Debate Kit
A grade 11 debate on whether a fictional river commission should support a new license for an aging hydropower dam or fund its removal, with two-sided evidence.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Licensing Across State Lines: The Marrowbank Reciprocity Hearing
A grade 11 rulemaking simulation in which students testify and vote on whether a fictional state board should recognize water operator licenses earned elsewhere.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Two PFAS Standards: A Grade 11 Morvane Bill Analysis Worksheet
Students analyze a fictional state PFAS bill against the federal drinking water rule, weighing testimony from a small utility and a health advocate.
Grade 11 Project
The Prestcott Water Bond: A Grade 11 Ballot Question Project
Across five sessions students produce a neutral voter information sheet, opposing argument statements, and a public forum for a fictional water treatment bond.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Trading Nitrogen on the Quarrington: Permits, Farms, and Credits
A grade 11 lesson on why the Clean Water Act permits point sources but not farm runoff, using a fictional nutrient credit trade priced by students.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Ravenshoe's Sewer Consent Decree: A Grade 11 Schedule Worksheet
Students compare two court-ordered sewer schedules for a fictional city, test each against a widely used affordability benchmark, and weigh marginal control costs.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
The 1899 Refuse Act and the Search for Federal Pollution Power
A grade 11 US history lesson tracing how an 1899 navigation statute became a pollution enforcement tool and comparing five instruments of policy change.
Grade 11 Worksheet
The Bexhill Works Cleanup: A Grade 11 Superfund Liability Worksheet
Students divide a fictional town's groundwater cleanup cost among four responsible parties, work out what happens when one is gone, and judge the liability rule.
Grade 11 Reading passage
Passing the Clean Water Act Over a Veto in 1972
A grade 11 passage on how Congress rewrote water pollution law in 1972, overrode a veto, and left most runoff, especially from farms, outside the permit system.
Grade 11 Project
The Water Element of the Fallowdale County Plan: A Grade 11 Project
Across five sessions students write the water chapter of a fictional county's 20-year comprehensive plan, map its supply, and defend three ranked options at a hearing.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Grant or Loan: Financing Millbank's Sewage Plant in 1978 and 2026
Students compare what a fictional city paid for a treatment plant under a federal grant with what the same city would pay today under a state loan.
Grade 11 Writing prompt
Should the Pallister Water District Elect Its Board? A Writing Prompt
Students weigh accountability against long-range planning and argue whether a fictional three-town water district should elect its board or keep appointing it.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
From the Dust Bowl to the Center Pivot: Ryeland County Water
Students trace eighty years of a fictional High Plains county's irrigated acres, population, and water levels, then explain how pump technology reshaped who lived there.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Sewer Lines and City Limits: A Sunderby County Service Lesson
A grade 11 civics lesson using four invented county documents from 1961 to 2021 to explain why neighborhoods outside a fictional city never got piped sewer service.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Can Tannerville's Operators Strike? A Grade 11 Arbitration Lesson
Students act as an arbitration panel in a fictional city where state law bars water plant operators from striking and substitutes binding arbitration for the walkout.
Grade 11 Debate kit
A Withdrawal Fee for the Tarleton Basin: A Grade 11 Debate Kit
Teams argue a fictional bill that would charge farms, factories, and utilities for the water they pump from a shared basin, using a two-sided evidence file.
Grade 11 Worksheet
The Trenholm Bottoms Levee: A Grade 11 Benefit-Cost Worksheet
Students apply the benefit-cost test federal flood control has used since 1936 to two options for a fictional river district, a levee or an upstream detention basin.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Eminent Domain and the Brashear Reservoir: A Grade 11 Case Study
A grade 11 civics lesson on eminent domain in which students analyze two fictional documents from a reservoir project that displaced the farm town of Brashear.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Delmore's Water Bills: A Grade 11 Affordability Data Worksheet
A grade 11 data worksheet in which students calculate water bill burdens for three fictional Delmore households and test each against a common affordability threshold.
Grade 11 Reading passage
Drought and the Regional Economy: A Grade 11 Geography Passage
A grade 11 geography passage tracing how multi-year drought moves through farming, hydropower, and city budgets until dry years become a region's planning assumption.