Grades 6–7 Project
Schoolyard Stormwater Runoff: An Audit and Design Project
Teams map their schoolyard's hard and soft surfaces, calculate real stormwater runoff in gallons, trace where it drains, and pitch a fix to a real school decision-maker.
Browse by grade
Grade 6
Sixth graders learn ratios, unit rates, and percent, which opens the door to authentic utility mathematics such as water bills and per-person use. Argument writing with evidence also begins this year, and materials here use real water questions to practice it.
368 materials written for grade 6 · filter them in the catalog
01 By subject
02 Editor's picks
Grades 6–7 Math problem set
Water Tower Height and Pressure: Unit-Rate Problems
Eight problems that turn the town water tower into unit-rate practice, converting height to pressure with the real 0.433 psi-per-foot rule operators use.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Camp Marloch Constructed Wetland Design Activity
A grade 6 engineering station rotation where teams score competing constructed-wetland design options on a rubric, then combine the best features into one class design.
Grade 6 Lab / experiment
Choosing a Weir Notch Shape for Wilmot Brook
Students build three weir plates, read the water height at a slow and a fast flow, and pick the notch shape that meets a fictional gauge's three rules.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Cabbage-Juice Reactive Painting for the Birchwater Creek Stream Club
Grade 6 students draw with vinegar and baking soda on paper dyed with red cabbage indicator, planning a composition whose pink and green marks show acid and base.
Grade 6 Project
Water-Wise Entrance Garden Design for Caliche Springs Middle School
A grade 6 landscape design project where teams plan a drought-tolerant school entrance garden by texture, form, and color within a fictional weekly water budget.