Grade 6 Classroom activity
The Bramwell Ridge Source Water Board: Forest or Filters
A 55-minute grade 6 activity in which teams score three source water plans for Bramwell against cost, habitat, storm reliability, and time to build.
Water Science · Grade 6
These materials teach earth science, chemistry, biology, and physics through water systems, from the water cycle to treatment chemistry.
77 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 6 Math problem set
Cape Vorne Desalination: Energy and Recovery Problems
A grade 6 math set comparing a fictional desalination plant's energy use with ordinary treatment, and finding the seawater and brine behind each batch of fresh water.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
The Cindermoor Valley Aquifer: A Shared Groundwater Pumping Game
A grade 6 science game where small groups pump from one shared aquifer of counters, learning why groundwater is limited and recharges slowly.
Grade 6 Worksheet
The Okafor Home Water Audit: A Denby Cross Conservation Worksheet
A grade 6 science worksheet where students run a fictional family's home water audit, using real per-day and per-use figures to find savings.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Drayton's Aging Water Mains: Choosing What to Replace First
A grade 6 science worksheet where students weigh cost, age, and location to plan a fictional town's limited water-main replacement program.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
The Dunmere Aquifer Model: Porosity and Groundwater Storage
A 50-minute grade 6 science lesson where students model an aquifer with gravel and sand, then calculate porosity to explain why some ground stores groundwater well.
Grade 6 Reading passage
A Day at the Estcourt Water Plant: The Operator's Job
A grade 6 informational passage following a fictional water treatment operator through her day, covering the pay, training, and range of career paths in the water sector.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Feeding the Ellersby Digesters: Sludge, Microbes, and Gas
A grade 6 reading passage about the microbes inside the sludge digesters at Ellersby, with a five-week data table and seven comprehension questions.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Finding and Replacing Fernwald's Lead Water Lines
A grade 6 science reading passage on how a fictional town finds and replaces lead service lines, and the national rules that keep tightening.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Grindleford Water Main: Pipe Flow and Pressure Problems
A grade 6 science problem set on a fictional town's water main, finding flow from pipe area times water speed and pressure from tower height.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Havenmoor Sedimentation Basin: Detention Time and Settling
A 40-minute grade 6 science lesson where students compute detention time for a fictional plant's settling basin and connect slower water to cleaner water.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Hollowmere Middle School Water Audit: Fixtures and Savings
A grade 6 science worksheet where students audit a fictional school's drips and showerheads, then use rates and percent to find the gallons they could save.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Where Earth's Water Is Stored: A Kestrel Bend Water Model
A grade 6 science worksheet where students build a jar model of Earth's water, using percentages and residence times to see how little fresh water people can reach.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Kettle Hollow's Runoff Problem: Designing Green Infrastructure
A 55-minute grade 6 science lesson where students calculate roof runoff and design green infrastructure to cut stormwater in a fictional downtown.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Mapping the Kirby Brook Watershed: Tracing Pollution Sources
A 50-minute grade 6 science lesson where students map a fictional watershed, sort point and nonpoint pollution sources, and argue which one a town should address first.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Larkspur Basin Chlorine Residual: Dose, Demand, and Decay
A grade 6 problem set on a fictional system's chlorine tests, where students find chlorine demand, the mean and range of residuals, and compare them to the safe range.
Grade 6 Lab / experiment
Does a Coagulant Help Sediment Settle? A Mabry Plant Test
A grade 6 science lab comparing muddy water with and without a coagulant, rating clarity over time to test a fictional plant's settling step.
Grade 6 Worksheet
The Marlingford Brine Well: Modeling Salt Dissolved in Water
A grade 6 worksheet where students model water and salt particles, then use percent to plan membrane treatment for the salty new well at Marlingford.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Run the Plant: Marlow Bend Water Treatment Rotation
A grade 6 station-rotation where teams act as plant operators, rotating through the five stages of drinking-water treatment and making one decision at each.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Marren Falls Water Works: Tracking Water Lost to Leaks
A grade 6 worksheet on non-revenue water where students find how many gallons a fictional utility loses to leaks and what percent of pumped water is lost.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Merrow Bay Nitrogen: A Needed Nutrient and a Pollutant
A 45-minute grade 6 lesson where students study a fictional bay to see how nitrogen feeds plants yet, in excess, fuels algae blooms that lower the oxygen fish need.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Northgate Water Lab Relay: Matching Contaminants to Limits
A grade 6 science relay game where teams match four real drinking water contaminants to their federal limits and to the treatment that removes each one.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Oakspur Plant Detention Time: How Long Water Settles
A grade 6 science math set where students find a fictional basin's volume, then divide by flow to get detention time and check it against the 2-to-4-hour design range.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
The Otter Run Stream Survey: A Water Quality Bug Hunt
A grade 6 science station activity where students sort stream-bug cards from three sites and rate each site's water quality using sensitive and tolerant bugs.