Grade 6 Reading passage
Where the Rain Goes: Pebble Lane's New Rain Gardens
A grade 6 science reading passage about a fictional street's flooding, tracing how storm drains, rain gardens, and permeable pavement move and soak up rainwater.
Water Science · Grade 6
These materials teach earth science, chemistry, biology, and physics through water systems, from the water cycle to treatment chemistry.
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Grade 6 Lesson plan
Pinewick's Lead Pipes: Building a Service Line Inventory
A 45-minute grade 6 science lesson where students use a fictional town's records to sort homes by lead-pipe risk and argue which service lines to replace first.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Prescott Mills and the Pipes You Cannot See
A grade 6 science reading passage about a fictional town's water main break that explains why buried pipes age, break, and cost so much to replace.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Quillfield's Treatment Wetland: Cleaning Water with Plants
A grade 6 worksheet where students use inlet and outlet readings to calculate how well a fictional constructed wetland removes waste and nitrogen from water.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Ravensgate's Lead Service Lines: Sampling and Replacement Math
Ten grade 6 problems on lead sampling results, a ten-year replacement schedule, and yearly cost per account for the service lines under the town of Ravensgate.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Reading the Callan River Gauge: Netherby's Flood Crest
A grade 6 worksheet in which students summarize nine river gauge readings from a storm at Netherby and work out when the Callan River crossed flood stage.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Redfern Farm's Water Footprint: Comparing Foods and Irrigation
A 50-minute grade 6 science lesson where students use water-footprint figures and a fictional farm's irrigation switch to argue how food choices affect water supply.
Grade 6 Lab / experiment
Ridgeline Water Tower Model: Does Water Height Drive Flow?
A grade 6 lab where students uncover holes at three heights in a bottle, measure how far each stream shoots, and connect water height to pressure and flow.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Sedgemoor Reservoir: Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen Data
A grade 6 science worksheet where students summarize a fictional reservoir's oxygen data and link warm water to lower oxygen for fish.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Sediment in Cardew Reservoir: Storage Lost Behind Thrushmoor Dam
A grade 6 worksheet on how sediment fills Cardew Reservoir behind Thrushmoor Dam, using percent, ratios, and acre-foot to gallon conversions.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Selby Point's Reverse Osmosis Unit: Recovery and Reject Water
A grade 6 science worksheet on a fictional reverse osmosis unit, where students find recovery percent and how much feed water becomes clean water instead of reject.
Grade 6 Lab / experiment
The Stannard Brook Stream Table: Slope, Sediment, and Runoff
A grade 6 lab in which students build a stream table, change its slope, and measure how far sediment travels and how cloudy the runoff becomes.
Grade 6 Lab / experiment
Which Ground Soaks Up Rain? Tamworth Field Infiltration
A grade 6 lab where students time how fast water passes through sand, loam, and clay, then compute infiltration rates and connect the results to runoff and groundwater.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Evaporation at Tarrant Reservoir: Depth, Volume, and Gallons
Ten grade 6 problems that turn a six-inch summer evaporation loss at Tarrant Reservoir into cubic feet, gallons, and a share of the reservoir's full pool.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Thornbury Orchard Irrigation: Furrow Versus Drip Water Use
A grade 6 science worksheet comparing furrow and drip irrigation at a fictional orchard, using ratios and percents to find how much water each method delivers and saves.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Vellmont's New Well: Measuring Drawdown as You Pump
A 50-minute grade 6 lesson on groundwater where students measure well drawdown from static and pumping water levels and reason about the limits of a shared aquifer.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Wintershaw's April Snowpack Record: Asking Better Questions
A 55-minute grade 6 lesson where students analyze sixty years of April snowpack depths at Wintershaw and write testable questions about what has changed.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Testing the Wells of Basswood Hollow for PFAS
A grade 6 reading passage following a fictional town's PFAS well-testing story, showing why nearby wells can test differently and what a federal limit means.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Bellhaven's Desalination Unit: Reverse Osmosis Recovery Problems
A grade 6 math problem set where students calculate a fictional town's reverse-osmosis recovery rate and test whether it meets a growing population's water demand.
Grade 6 Debate kit
Removing Birch Hollow Dam to Restore Fish Passage: A Grade 6 Debate
A grade 6 debate kit on whether a fictional town should remove an aging dam to restore fish passage, weighed against its park pond and flood protection.
Grade 6 Math problem set
Copper Basin Treatment Plant: Filter Loading Rate Problems
A grade 6 math problem set where students calculate filter loading rates at a fictional treatment plant and compare them to the typical operating range.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Fertilizer Runoff and the Algae Bloom at Dovetail Pond
A grade 6 worksheet where students use percent-of-a-quantity math to trace how fertilizer runoff feeds an algae bloom and drops dissolved oxygen at a fictional pond.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Elderwood Dam and the Fish Ladder: An Ecosystem Change Argument
A 50-minute grade 6 lesson where students use a fictional dam's fish-count data to calculate percent change and argue how much a fish ladder restored the population.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Hazel Run's Aquifer: Withdrawal, Recharge, and Unit Conversion
A grade 6 worksheet where students convert a fictional town's groundwater withdrawal and recharge from acre-feet to gallons and compare the yearly gap.