Creative projects such as poster campaigns, water tower design, and storm-drain murals connect to real civic programs that many utilities sponsor.
17 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 6 Classroom activity
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
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.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Grade 6 students find the median and quartiles of fictional river temperatures below a dam, then use them to design a color-blind-safe diverging palette and legend.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
A grade 6 art lesson in which students use a horizon line, one vanishing point, and converging lines to draw an irrigation canal and furrowed fields for a farm calendar.
Grade 6 Worksheet
A grade 6 technical illustration worksheet: students scale a fictional buried service line to fit a mailer, then choose line weight, color coding, and label placement.
Grade 6 Project
A five-session grade 6 project in which students stipple black-ink drawings of floc, ciliates, rotifers, and filaments for a fictional wastewater plant's field guide.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
A grade 6 design lesson where students create logo concepts for a water utility, then write a short argument recommending one draft using stated design criteria.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
A grade 6 graphic-design lesson where students create a pictogram sign system and short captions for the six stages of a water reclamation plant tour.
Grade 6 Worksheet
A grade 6 art-math worksheet where students mix custom map colors by ratio and scale the recipes to paint a large map of the Fern Hollow watershed.
Grade 6 Project
A grade 6 project where teams design three illustrated yard signs and a proposal urging neighbors to keep fertilizer nutrients out of Loomis Creek, within a fixed budget.
Grade 6 Worksheet
A grade 6 art-math worksheet where students use the grid method and a scale factor of 6 to enlarge a small reverse osmosis diagram into a hallway poster.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
A grade 6 art station where students paint a five-step light-to-dark value scale for water clarity and write short captions matching each swatch to a turbidity level.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
A grade 6 music and songwriting lesson where students compose a short persuasive chant with a steady beat urging neighbors to keep pollutants out of storm drains.
Grade 6 Worksheet
A grade 6 art-math worksheet where students turn indoor water-use percentages into scaled bar lengths for a home-water infographic poster.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
A grade 6 design-sprint activity where teams sketch and score two paper kinetic-sculpture concepts that show how a booster pump lifts water to higher ground.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
A grade 6 station-rotation activity where student groups critique water-safety posters at four stations, each focused on one design principle, then revise their work.
Grade 6 Project
A grade 6 art project where teams design a scaled water-tower wrap mural carrying a real conservation fact, within a fixed budget and panel size.