Grade 11 Worksheet
Fairden's Water Utility Budget: A Grade 11 Enterprise Fund Worksheet
A grade 11 civics worksheet on a fictional city's water enterprise fund in which students compute budget shares and evaluate a proposal to cut main maintenance.
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 Debate kit
Should Gatley Join a Regional Water System? A Grade 11 Debate Kit
A grade 11 debate kit on whether the fictional town of Gatley should transfer its aging water system to a regional authority, with two-sided evidence and a rubric.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Riparian or Prior Appropriation: A Grade 11 Water Rights Lesson
A grade 11 lesson comparing the riparian and prior appropriation doctrines, with four fictional disputes students decide under the correct state's allocation rules.
Grade 11 Writing prompt
Selling Norvale's Water Utility: A Grade 11 Argument Prompt
A grade 11 argument prompt asking whether the fictional city of Norvale should sell its water utility to a private operator, with organizer, exemplar essay, and rubric.
Grade 11 Classroom activity
A Wellhead Protection Ordinance for Tilbrook: A Zoning Role-Play
A grade 11 role-play in which six stakeholders negotiate a wellhead protection ordinance for the fictional town of Tilbrook and vote on final zoning rules.
Grade 11 Quiz & test questions
Doctrines, Compacts, and Primacy: A Grade 11 Water Law Quiz
A 25-minute grade 11 quiz on water law and governance covering rights doctrines, interstate compacts, state primacy, the lead rule, and one affordability calculation.
Grade 11 Reading passage
When States Sue Over Rivers: A Grade 11 Interstate Water Passage
A grade 11 passage on how states resolve disputes over shared rivers, from Supreme Court equitable apportionment suits to negotiated interstate compacts.
Grade 11 Reading passage
How American Cities Built Their Water Systems: A Grade 11 Passage
A grade 11 informational passage on how U.S. cities built public water systems after 19th-century epidemics, and why those pipes are now aging.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Hoover Dam and the Colorado River: A Grade 11 Civics Worksheet
A grade 11 worksheet pairing the history of federal dam building with allocation and hydropower math for a fictional Colorado River water district.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Sourcing the Lead and Copper Rule: A Grade 11 Document Worksheet
A grade 11 civics worksheet where students source three documents on federal lead rules and judge whether a fictional city must accelerate pipe replacement.
Grade 11 Worksheet
Inside a State Utility Commission Rate Order: Grade 11 Worksheet
A grade 11 economics worksheet where students compute a fictional water utility's revenue requirement and rate increase and analyze the regulatory hearing.
Grade 11 Classroom activity
Vireo's Next Acre-Foot: A Grade 11 Water Supply Planning Activity
A grade 11 simulation where teams plan a fictional city's new water supply by marginal cost, choosing among conservation, reuse, and desalination options.
Grade 11 Debate kit
Water as a Commodity or a Right: A Grade 11 Debate Kit
A grade 11 debate kit on whether communities should price water by use or guarantee a basic amount to every household, with two-sided evidence.
Grade 11 Reading passage
The Rise of Water Metering and How We Pay for Water
A grade 11 informational passage tracing how water pricing moved from flat fees to metered and tiered rates, and the incentives each system creates.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Drafting the Amber River Compact: A Grade 11 Water Law Simulation
A grade 11 lesson where two fictional states negotiate the Amber River Compact, applying a deliberative process and percentage flow math to a water dispute.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
The Clean Water Act Reaches Cedar Hollow: A Grade 11 Federalism Lesson
Grade 11 students role-play a permit-variance hearing for a fictional town's wastewater plant, weighing cooperative federalism and calculating removal efficiency.
Grade 11 Writing prompt
Funding Water Infrastructure: A New Deal-Scale Argument Prompt
A grade 11 argument prompt where students take a position on federal water-infrastructure funding, using Hoover Dam and ASCE infrastructure-grade data as evidence.