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.
Water Engineering & Design · Grade 6
Students take on design and testing challenges drawn from real infrastructure, including filters, towers, dams, and stormwater improvements, with budgets and constraints.
42 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
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 Project
A Phased Water Plan for the Gossett Ridge Homes
Teams take three water-sector roles and design a two-phase plan for a fictional hillside neighborhood, since the grant pays for only part of the work they want to build.
Grade 6 Quiz & test questions
Design Review of the Hearnside Dam Spillway Plan
A 20-point grade 6 review in which students check a fictional spillway plan against a flood rule and a freeboard rule, then evaluate a wider replacement design.
Grade 6 Lab / experiment
Testing Three Pipe Bedding Materials for Oskett Lane
Students load a model pipe on soil, sand, and pea gravel, then measure settling, drainage, and soil movement to pick the bedding a fictional water main job needs.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Choosing a Water Meter Size for the Pinkney Bakery
Students match a fictional bakery's lowest and highest water demands against three meter ranges and charges, then pick a meter and revisit it for a drip line.
Grade 6 Graphic organizer
Criteria and Constraints for the Ravelle Hollow Fire Cistern
A grade 6 sorting frame that splits eight statements about a fictional buried fire cistern into criteria, constraints, and wants, each with a stated test and target.
Grade 6 Graphic organizer
Refining a Silt Fence at the Rookhill Ridge Build Site
A grade 6 iteration log for a fictional construction site, tracking four silt fence trials against a clarity target and a standing target, with a completed exemplar.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Where to Build Post-and-Brush Dams on Sedge Run
Students weigh three stream reaches against a post supply and a one-day work limit, then choose where a fictional crew should build low post-and-brush dams.
Grade 6 Graphic organizer
Choosing a Disinfection Method for the Tinbury Wells
A grade 6 scoring matrix that rates chlorine tablets, a liquid feed pump, and an ultraviolet reactor against four rules for a fictional small water system.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Choosing a Wet Well Size for the Wrayside Lift Station
Students size the working volume a fictional sewage lift station needs, then test three proposed wet wells against a pump-start rule and a width limit.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Amboti Village Handpump Well Drawdown Worksheet
A grade 6 engineering worksheet where students design a village handpump well, finding drawdown from water levels and pump output from unit rates and a rate table.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Aridell Fog Catcher Water Harvest Design Lesson
A grade 6 engineering lesson where students size and compare fog-catcher mesh designs for a dry village, using area and unit rates to predict daily water harvest.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Bramfell School Backflow Preventer Design Lesson
A 50-minute lesson where students pick a backflow assembly for a fictional school greenhouse, then check the device still leaves enough pressure at the sprinklers.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Corrantry Hill Pressure Zone Placement Activity
Groups act as a utility design team, finding water pressure at six houses on a fictional hillside and deciding which ones belong in a booster-served upper zone.
Grade 6 Quiz & test questions
Ferrow Bend Ice Rink Meltwater Reuse Assessment
A 25-point quiz on a fictional rink's plan to capture and reuse ice-resurfacer meltwater, with multiple-choice and computation items on volume, savings, and fill time.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Harrowfield Well 3 Carbon Filter Sizing and Cost Problems
Ten problems in which students size carbon treatment vessels for a fictional town's PFAS-affected well, then work out media cost, yearly cost, and percent of budget.
Grade 6 Lab / experiment
Hartsel Reservoir Evaporation Cover Design Lab
A grade 6 engineering lab where students build and test covers to slow evaporation from model reservoirs, then compare water loss to pick the best design.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Hollisgate Farm Drip Line Emitter Spacing Problems
Ten problems where students divide a row length by two emitter spacings on a fictional pepper farm, then test each drip design against a permit and a crop rule.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Kestrel Farm Buffer Strip Nutrient Runoff Problems
A grade 6 engineering set where students design a grass buffer strip that catches nitrogen and phosphorus runoff, using percent removal, unit rates, and a ratio table.
Grade 6 Quiz & test questions
Marne Water Plant Settling Basin Design Assessment
A grade 6 engineering assessment where students size a rectangular settling basin, find detention time and removal percent, and pick a design change to meet a goal.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Netherstone Salt Shed Runoff Containment Lesson
A 55-minute lesson in which students size a containment curb and a roof for a fictional town's road-salt pile, then budget the monitoring visits that follow construction.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Northgate School Low-Flow Fixture Retrofit Problems
A grade 6 engineering set where students plan a fixture retrofit, comparing shower and faucet flow rates to find water and cost savings with percent and an equation.