Grade 6 Reading passage
The Ditch Riders of the Vantry Valley
An original grade 6 passage about a fictional farmer-owned ditch company, the ditch rider who delivers its water, and how shareholders vote at the annual meeting.
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 Lesson plan
The Ledburn Mills Sanitation Petition of 1897
Grade 6 students compare an 1897 mill-town petition with a present-day letter about sewer overflows, then explain how each group pressed its town for change.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Upstream and Downstream on the Gorsemere River
A grade 6 role-play where students act as landowners along a shared river, map how upstream choices reach a downstream town, and negotiate a watershed agreement.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Where Every Water Dollar Goes in Calverton
A 45-minute grade 6 civics and math lesson where students split a fictional town's monthly water bill into percent shares to see where each utility dollar goes.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Who Gets the Water Under Felbrigg County?
A 50-minute grade 6 civics lesson in which students compare two groundwater rules and apply each one to a well dispute between a farm and a town.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Why Deepford Grew Beside the Brennig River Dam
An original grade 6 passage about a fictional mill town whose dam shaped where people lived and worked, and the choice the town faces now that the mill is gone.
Grade 6 Reading passage
Aging Pipes, Rising Bills: Why Water Systems Need Investment
A grade 6 passage on why US water infrastructure needs investment, using real report-card grades, main-break rates, and bill-trend figures.
Grade 6 Classroom activity
Sharing the Amsel River: A Water Allocation Negotiation Game
A grade 6 role-play activity where three groups negotiate how to divide a river's flow between farms, a city, and required environmental flow across a drought season.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Barrow County's Nutrient Trading Plan: Comparing Two Costs
A grade 6 worksheet comparing the cost of paying farmers for buffer strips against upgrading a treatment plant to meet a fictional county's nitrogen target.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Mapping the Dunbrook River Watershed: Land Use Upstream
A grade 6 geography lesson where students map the fictional Dunbrook River watershed and calculate what percent of the land upstream is farmland, forest, and urban area.
Grade 6 Writing prompt
Should Dune Harbor Build a Desalination Plant? A Grade 6 Argument
A grade 6 argument writing prompt where students take a position on whether a fictional drought-stricken coastal town should build a reverse-osmosis desalination plant.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Ferndale's Water Bill: Converting CCF and Tiered Rates
A grade 6 worksheet where students convert a water bill's CCF units to gallons and compute tiered water rate charges for the fictional town of Ferndale.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Hoover Dam: Weighing the Tradeoffs of a Depression-Era Project
A grade 6 lesson using Hoover Dam's real generating capacity to examine how a 1930s public works project brought jobs and power at a real environmental cost.
Grade 6 Reading passage
A Morning at Rockford Junction: Becoming a Water Operator
A grade 6 passage following a fictional apprentice operator through a shift, using real median pay, licensing, and workforce figures for the career.
Grade 6 Lesson plan
Wexbridge's Rate Hearing: A Mock Water Board Role-Play
A grade 6 civics lesson in which students role-play residents, a business owner, and a water board at a fictional town's public hearing on a proposed rate increase.
Grade 6 Worksheet
Whitlock Creek Watch: Reading a Citizen Water-Testing Data Table
A grade 6 worksheet in which students summarize a fictional volunteer group's weekly creek-testing data and decide what evidence to bring to a town council meeting.
Grade 6 Debate kit
Should Brookhaven Raise Water Rates to Replace Aging Water Mains?
A grade 6 debate kit on a fictional city raising water rates to replace aging cast-iron mains, with two-sided evidence on infrastructure need and household affordability.