Grade 7 Reading passage
Too Much of a Good Thing: Nutrients at Widgeon Lake
A grade 7 informational passage on how nitrogen and phosphorus can be both fertilizer and pollutant, with comprehension questions mixing literal and inferential thinking.
Water English Language Arts · Grade 7
Reading passages, essays, and argument writing are grounded in genuine water issues, from informational texts about treatment plants to editorials on proposed rate increases.
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Grade 7 Worksheet
Rain Gardens on Winnow Creek: A Citing-Evidence Worksheet
A grade 7 ELA worksheet where students read a short text about a fictional rain-garden program and cite several details to answer literal and inferential questions.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Wraycross's Lead Pipe Timeline: Claim and Counterclaim
A grade 7 ELA worksheet where students build claims, reasons, counterclaims, and rebuttals about how fast a town should replace its lead service lines.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Bramblewick's Constructed Wetland: A Citing-Evidence Worksheet
A grade 7 worksheet in which students read about a fictional dairy plant's constructed wetland and cite textual evidence to explain how it treats wastewater.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Buffer Strips on Cattail Bend Creek: Claim and Counterclaim
A grade 7 worksheet pairing two opinion letters about mandatory buffer strips on a fictional creek, asking students to identify claims, evidence, and counterclaims.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
A Night Shift at Duskwood: Narrative Writing About a Turbidity Alarm
A 50-minute grade 7 narrative lesson in which students dramatize a plant operator's night-shift response to a turbidity alarm using dialogue and pacing.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Fennimore's Lead Line Inventory: A Citing-Evidence Lesson
A 45-minute grade 7 lesson pairing a short passage about a fictional town's lead service line inventory with guided citing-evidence practice tied to RI.7.1.
Grade 7 Reading passage
A Break on Fir Street: A Night Call for a Grouse Hollow Operator
A grade 7 informational passage following an operator's overnight response to a water main break in fictional Grouse Hollow, with citing-evidence questions.
Grade 7 Classroom activity
Who's Polluting Hensley Ford Creek? A Watershed Evidence-Hunt Activity
A grade 7 station-rotation activity where small groups collect and cite evidence from four field reports to decide which source most pollutes a fictional watershed.
Grade 7 Debate kit
Should New Homes Be Required to Have Water-Efficient Fixtures?
A grade 7 debate kit on whether a town should require water-efficient fixtures in every new home, with two-sided evidence on conservation and construction cost.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Why Do Water Mains Break? A Short Research Project at Pryor's Landing
A 50-minute grade 7 lesson where students synthesize three short original sources to answer a research question about aging pipes, then generate follow-up questions.
Grade 7 Reading passage
Recycled Water for the Fields: Irrigation at Rowan Ferry
A grade 7 informational passage about a fictional farm town's shift to recycled wastewater for crop irrigation during a drought, with citing-evidence questions.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Sedgewick Mill's Booster Pump: An Explanatory Paragraph Worksheet
A grade 7 worksheet where students order six scrambled sentences about a hilltop booster pump station into a well-organized explanatory paragraph.
Grade 7 Debate kit
Should Schools Test Every Fountain for PFAS Each Year? A Debate Kit
A grade 7 debate kit on requiring annual PFAS testing of school drinking fountains, with two-sided evidence on health risk, cost, and regulatory timing.