Grade 12 Project
The Sedgeley Board's Decision Packet on Fallow Ridge
A six-session grade 12 project in which teams research a fictional water board's three options for a failing well field and deliver a full written decision packet.
Water English Language Arts · Grade 12
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 12 Project
Trellis Point Aquifer Storage: A Research Brief Project
A five-session grade 12 ELA project in which teams synthesize a seven-document source packet into a policy brief on aquifer storage or a new reservoir.
Grade 12 Writing prompt
Why Bidwell Creek's Chloride Keeps Rising: An Explanatory Prompt
A grade 12 explanatory writing prompt: students explain to a fictional watershed council why creek chloride rises while the town spreads less road salt each winter.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
How a Nitrate Finding Changed Across Four Burnt Fork Documents
A 50-minute grade 12 lesson tracing one well survey finding through a press release, a news summary, and a flyer, then writing an accurate attribution.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
Who Qualifies Under Caldmoor's Stormwater Credit Ordinance
A 75-minute grade 12 ELA lesson on reading regulatory language closely: students apply a fictional stormwater ordinance to three parcels and defend one determination.
Grade 12 Reading passage
Where the Concentrate Goes: Inland Desalting at Claxton Mesa
A grade 12 informational passage on brackish groundwater desalting, with a plant data table and questions on how an inland town disposes of its salty concentrate.
Grade 12 Writing prompt
Recommending Colverton's Next Water Source: An Argument Prompt
A grade 12 argument writing prompt in which students recommend one of three water supply options to a fictional town board, with an organizer, exemplar, and rubric.
Grade 12 Debate kit
Dunmarch's Nitrate Decision: Cropland Buyouts or a New Plant
A grade 12 debate kit on whether a fictional water commission should retire upstream cropland or build a nitrate removal plant, with two-sided evidence and a rubric.
Grade 12 Writing prompt
Covering Fairvale's Lorimer Reservoir: An Argument Prompt
A grade 12 argument writing prompt in which students recommend one of two ways a fictional city can meet the rule against uncovered finished water storage.
Grade 12 Reading passage
Relicensing Ferrand Dam: Sediment, Fish, and Cold Water
A grade 12 informational passage on a fictional dam's license renewal, with downstream oxygen and temperature data students read against the text.
Grade 12 Writing prompt
The Night the Halverson Road Main Broke: A Narrative Prompt
A grade 12 narrative writing prompt with a shift log and detail packet from a fictional utility, asking students to write a first-person account of one night.
Grade 12 Reading passage
Why Hollantree's Phosphorus Numbers Rise Every Spring
A grade 12 informational passage on biological phosphorus removal at a fictional plant, where a wet spring starves the bacteria that do the work, with data and questions.
Grade 12 Worksheet
Attribution and Reporting Verbs in Linthaven's Brown Water Story
A grade 12 ELA worksheet on who is credited with each claim in a news feature about a fictional town's discolored tap water, and on what reporting verbs do to belief.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
Turning the Marnock Hollow Consent Order Into a Resident FAQ
A 90-minute grade 12 ELA lesson in which students convert a fictional wastewater consent order into an accurate plain-language FAQ for residents.
Grade 12 Reading passage
Reconciling the Marrowby River's Three Water Ledgers
A grade 12 informational passage in which a fictional county analyst reconciles acre-feet, cubic feet per second, and gallons per day for one irrigation season.
Grade 12 Worksheet
Audience and Diction in the Morrow Bend Digester Explainer
A grade 12 ELA worksheet in which students diagnose nominalization, passive voice, and buried claims in a fictional plant's nutrient recovery explainer.
Grade 12 Worksheet
Checking the Numbers in a Pell Junction Pump Station Letter
A grade 12 ELA worksheet where students test each numeric claim in a fictional letter to the editor against the water district's own pump station fact sheet.
Grade 12 Debate kit
Advanced Water Meters in Swanton Township: A Debate Kit
A grade 12 debate kit on whether a fictional township should install hourly reading water meters, with two-sided evidence on leaks, cost, and privacy.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
What the Vinton Flats Water Notice Left Out
A 55-minute grade 12 lesson in which students judge what a utility's customer notice omitted, using its board memo and its own geosmin sampling record.
Grade 12 Worksheet
Information Order in Wrayburn's Lead Service Line Letter
A grade 12 ELA worksheet on cohesion and sequence: students repair a fictional utility letter whose sentences are all accurate but arrive in the wrong order.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
Drafting a Public Comment on Alder Hollow's Rate Increase
A grade 12 lesson where students draft and deliver public-comment testimony on a fictional town's water rate increase, using claim, evidence, and counterclaim.
Grade 12 Reading passage
Monitoring Wells Below Basalt County: A Groundwater Data Passage
A grade 12 informational passage pairing a fictional county's monitoring-well data table with a narrative on aquifer depletion, requiring students to integrate both.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
Rewriting Birch Run's Water Quality Report in Plain Language
A grade 12 lesson where students translate dense regulatory language from a fictional town's annual water quality report into a plain-language paragraph for residents.
Grade 12 Classroom activity
Testifying at Elm Fork's Stormwater Fee Hearing
A grade 12 role-play activity where students testify for or against a fictional town's proposed stormwater utility fee, then vote and debrief as a mock council.