Grade 6 Worksheet
Acre-Feet on the Cobb Ditch: Sharing a Creek's Water
A grade 6 worksheet on how a ditch company divides a creek by shares, with acre-foot conversions to gallons and cubic feet and a dry-year cut to all shareholders.
Water Social Studies & Civics · Grade 6
These materials cover water policy, geography, economics, and history, including how rate hearings work, how rivers shape settlement, and how communities govern a shared resource.
41 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 6 Worksheet
Blackhaw Ridge's Pumping Bill: An Energy Cost Worksheet
A grade 6 worksheet where students price a hilltop town's daily pumping energy, find the share of the monthly budget it takes, and test a lower-energy pump.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Coldwell Bend: Build a Water Plant or Buy From Aldenport?
A grade 6 lesson where students use a unit rate to compare the yearly cost of rebuilding a small town's water plant against buying treated water from a neighboring city.
Grade 6 Project
Emberdale's Capital Plan: Four Projects, One Budget
A four-session grade 6 project where teams fund part of a town's water repair list within a fixed budget and defend the plan to a council panel with evidence.
Grade 6 Graphic organizer
Four Ancient Ways to Move and Store Water
A grade 6 compare-and-contrast organizer on qanats, Roman aqueducts, Indian stepwells, and Petra's cisterns, with a clue bank to sort and a completed exemplar.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Granthorpe's Choice: Sewer Line or New Septic Tanks?
A grade 6 lesson where students read three stakeholder statements about failing septic systems on a lake, fill a decision matrix, and recommend an option to the board.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Harnbeck's Lead Service Lines: Which Blocks Go First?
A grade 6 civics lesson where students find the percent of lead service lines in four neighborhoods and rank them for a town's replacement budget.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Norwood Vale's Well Test Letter: Reading the Results
A grade 6 document-analysis worksheet on a county letter reporting private well test results, covering what each result means and why private wells are the owner's job.
Grade 6 Debate kit
Should Claybourne Sell Its Water System to a Company?
A grade 6 debate kit on whether a town should sell its water utility to a private company, with a two-sided evidence file, roles, a council vote, and a rubric.
Grade 6 Reading passage
The Village Under Sparrow Gap Reservoir
A grade 6 reading passage about a valley village flooded to supply a growing city, with eight questions on the city's gain, the valley's loss, and how the rules changed.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Brimley's Wells and the New PFAS Rule
A grade 6 civics passage pairing a fictional town's PFAS discovery with the national PFAS rule to show the roles of citizens, the utility, the state, and the EPA.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Can Stavely's Water Plant Serve 120 New Homes?
Grade 6 students act as a town water department reviewing a subdivision request, using percent and unit rates to test whether the plant has room for 120 more homes.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Dorsett's Drought Stages: Writing a Town Water Rule
A 50-minute grade 6 civics lesson where small groups draft a three-stage drought ordinance for a fictional town, then role-play a council debate and vote to adopt it.
Grade 6 Quiz & test questions
Draymoor's Aging Water Pipes: A Grade 6 Unit Quiz
A grade 6 quiz on aging water infrastructure and utility spending, mixing multiple-choice, short-answer, and percent computation items around a fictional town's pipes.
Grade 6 Reading passage
How the Town of Eskdale Found Its Water
A grade 6 social studies passage about a fictional town that outgrew its wells and built a gravity aqueduct from a hill spring, showing how geography shapes settlement.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Is Lindmoor's Water Bill Affordable? A Percent Worksheet
A grade 6 economics worksheet where students find three fictional families' water bills as a percent of income and test each against a 4.5 percent high-burden guideline.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Maidley Middle School's Lunch Menu and Its Water Footprint
A grade 6 ratio and percent worksheet in which students use published water-footprint figures to compare the water behind two lunch menus at a fictional middle school.
Grade 6 Quiz & test questions
Pallant Springs Water Department: A Grade 6 Civics Quiz
A 21-point grade 6 quiz on who runs and regulates a town water system, mixing multiple choice, short answer, and percent and unit-rate computation.
Grade 6 Writing prompt
Rain Gardens or Bigger Pipes for Marrowfield?
A grade 6 argument writing prompt where students advise a fictional town council to fix flooding with rain gardens or bigger storm pipes, using claim and evidence.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Reading Thornby's Yearly Water Quality Report
A grade 6 civics worksheet where students read a fictional town's annual water quality report, compare test results to legal limits, and find one result as a percent.
Grade 6 Debate kit
Should Fendalton Put a Meter on Every Home?
A grade 6 debate kit on whether a fictional town should switch from a flat water fee to metered billing, with two-sided evidence on fairness, cost, and conservation.
Grade 6 Debate kit
Should Silverbrook Charge a Stormwater Fee by Hard Surface?
A two-session grade 6 debate kit on whether a fictional city should bill each property for storm drains by roof and pavement area, with two-sided evidence.
Grade 6 Writing prompt
Should Tidwell Pay Homeowners to Replace Their Lawns?
Grade 6 argument writing on a fictional town's lawn rebate program, with background data, a claim-and-evidence organizer, a full exemplar essay, and a four-level rubric.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
The Callout Board: Who Answers Holdridge's Water Problems?
A 45-minute grade 6 station rotation in which teams match four utility emergencies to the staff roles that handle them and chart the education paths into each job.