Grade 12 Project
Auberly's Source Water Protection Plan for the Stroudmere
A six-session grade 12 project where teams map a fictional city's intake watershed, inventory contaminant sources, and defend three ordinance provisions.
Water Social Studies & Civics · Grade 12
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.
39 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 12 Lesson plan
Governing Lead Pipe Replacement in Halloway: Who Pays and Who Decides
A grade 12 government lesson in which students use a Halloway stakeholder brief to map federal, state, and local roles and judge who pays to replace lead pipes.
Grade 12 Worksheet
Mutual Aid After the Adderby Flood: Costs and Authority
A grade 12 worksheet in which students bill out a fictional utility mutual aid response, then judge who may request help, who carries the risk, and who finally pays.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
Reclassifying Elsbury Creek: A Use Attainability Hearing
A 75-minute grade 12 lesson in which students hold a state hearing on a fictional plan to downgrade a creek's designated use, then vote and defend the decision.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
Hessemere's Desalination Contract: Who Carries the Risk
A 90-minute grade 12 lesson comparing a fictional city's thirty-year desalinated water purchase agreement with building its own plant, across wet, normal, and dry years.
Grade 12 Writing prompt
Should Kirkmead Move Water Revenue to the General Fund?
A grade 12 argument prompt on a fictional city's yearly transfer of water rate revenue into the general fund, with budget figures, an exemplar, and a four-level rubric.
Grade 12 Worksheet
The Pallowmere Lake Diversion Case: Reading a Court Opinion
A grade 12 worksheet on a fictional state supreme court opinion about a lake diversion permit, asking students to separate holding, reasoning, and what it left undecided.
Grade 12 Worksheet
Cost Shares at Quillsmere Reservoir: Who Repays What
A grade 12 worksheet that splits a fictional multipurpose reservoir's cost among flood control, water supply, hydropower, and recreation, then asks who repays each share.
Grade 12 Debate kit
Should Stridham Ratepayers Fund a Water Workforce Academy?
A grade 12 debate kit on a fictional state's plan to train water operators through a monthly surcharge on every water bill, with sourced evidence for both sides.
Grade 12 Graphic organizer
Five Ways Torrington Could Cut Outdoor Water Use
A grade 12 policy-tool comparison frame in which students weigh five ways a fictional city could reduce summer lawn watering, by cost, enforcement, and objection.
Grade 12 Project
The Vesser Basin Treaty: Ordania and Belmarre Negotiate
A five-session grade 12 project in which two fictional countries negotiate a shared river and aquifer treaty, then argue for ratification before a joint commission.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
Deepening the Wyndhollow Ditch: Whose Costs Count?
A 60-minute grade 12 lesson on a fictional drainage district petition, where students find who votes, who is assessed, and who lives with the water downstream.
Grade 12 Debate kit
Should Bracklemoor Switch to Chloramine? A Council Debate
A two-session grade 12 debate kit on a fictional city's choice between converting to chloramine and treating for organic matter, with evidence on both sides.
Grade 12 Worksheet
Who Pays for Growth in Brimsgate: Setting a Water Charge
A grade 12 worksheet in which students calculate a fictional city's system development charge two ways and trace who covers the gap when the charge is set too low.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
Setting Cadderly County's Lead Action Level for Schools
A grade 12 lesson in which students sort a fictional school's lead results against two action levels, cost the remediation, and set a triage rule for a budget.
Grade 12 Worksheet
Relicensing Corryvale Dam: Flow, Power, and Fish
A grade 12 worksheet in which students price a fish-flow settlement at a fictional hydropower dam and weigh lost generation against regional visitor spending.
Grade 12 Writing prompt
Should Ellingsby Meter Its 1,900 Unmetered Homes?
A grade 12 argument writing prompt on a fictional town's choice to meter flat-rate homes, with background evidence, an organizer, an exemplar, and a rubric.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
Pricing Fenwarren's Stormwater Fee: From Budget to Bill
A grade 12 lesson in which students set a stormwater fee for a fictional city using hard-surface billing units and compare it with the property tax it would replace.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
Buying Phosphorus Credits on the Ainsdale River
A grade 12 lesson where students compute a fictional plant's phosphorus load and price a treatment upgrade against farm credits at a 2-to-1 trading ratio.
Grade 12 Worksheet
Reading Bellrose's Drought Contingency Plan: A Grade 12 Worksheet
A grade 12 worksheet in which students read a fictional city's drought contingency plan, compute reservoir percentages, and evaluate its staged trigger design.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
One Authority for Dorrance County? A Water Consolidation Lesson
A grade 12 economics lesson in which students compute per-connection compliance costs for five small fictional water systems and weigh a countywide consolidation.
Grade 12 Writing prompt
Should Marchant Require a 100-Year Water Supply for New Homes?
A grade 12 argument prompt on whether a fictional desert city should require proof of a 100-year water supply before new subdivisions can be approved and sold.
Grade 12 Quiz & test questions
Who Regulates the Tap? A Grade 12 Water Federalism Assessment
A 40-point grade 12 assessment on drinking water federalism, state primacy, and household affordability, mixing multiple choice, short answer, and rate computation.
Grade 12 Worksheet
The Quinter Valley Water Lease: Winners, Losers, and Spillovers
A grade 12 worksheet on a fictional city's proposal to lease irrigation water from a farm valley, with acre-foot math and analysis of third-party effects.