Grade 7 Writing prompt
Tarnholm's Lead Service Line Fee: A Grade 7 Argument Prompt
Students argue for or against a monthly fee that would replace a fictional town's lead service lines in six years instead of ten, using evidence on lead and bills.
Water Health & Consumer Science · Grade 7
These materials address hydration, water safety, and home water use, and treat reading a water bill or a water quality report as a practical consumer skill.
20 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 7 Project
Brackenwood Hollow Well Owners: A Family Water Health Plan
Teams build a four-page booklet, a testing calendar, and a cost table for a fictional private-well household that stay inside a fixed yearly testing budget.
Grade 7 Writing prompt
Ellet Creek's Drains and the Manrow River: An Explanatory Prompt
Students write a school website article tracing sink and toilet water through a fictional treatment plant and explaining why each step protects swimmers downstream.
Grade 7 Project
Kessel Ridge Fountains After Summer: A Flush and Test Plan
Teams schedule a fictional school's fountain flushing for the day before classes start, choose which fixtures to sample for lead on a fixed budget, and notify families.
Grade 7 Lab / experiment
Kirkstall Park Splash Pad: A Water Turnover Dilution Test
Groups model a splash pad's water turnovers with food coloring, rate the fading color, and calculate why fresh water alone cannot clean up a contamination event.
Grade 7 Lab / experiment
Lake Tamsett Beach Clarity: A Lifeguard Visibility Test
Students cloud water with measured soil, record the depth where a marked disk disappears, and use the data to judge when a lake beach is too murky to guard.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Quorley's Backyard Cross-Connections: Air Gaps and Hose Risks
Students apply a two-times air gap rule to three faucets, judge four household hose setups for backflow risk, and find the percent of inspected homes with a risk.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Sable Bend's Drought Ration: Ranking Household Water Uses
Students work out a fictional family's daily gallons under a drought limit, find the percent cut required, and decide which uses protect health and get cut last.
Grade 7 Graphic organizer
Verrell Farms to the Lunch Tray: An Irrigation Safety Chain
A six-link cause-and-effect organizer tracing how germs can move from a fictional pasture into irrigation water and onto school salad, with a control step for each link.
Grade 7 Graphic organizer
Three Ways to Check the Boone Household's Water
A grade 7 compare-three-ways graphic organizer on at-home test strips, a certified lab test, and the utility's annual water quality report.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
What Cottonmill Households Do During a Boil-Water Advisory
A grade 7 water-safety lesson in which students read a fictional boil-water notice and build a step-by-step flowchart of the actions a household should take.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Choosing a Home Water Filter for the Delacroix Family
A grade 7 consumer worksheet comparing three home water filters by cost per gallon and what they remove, including PFAS, for a fictional family.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Reading the Okafor Family's Dunmore Water Bill After a Rate Increase
A grade 7 consumer-math lesson where students read a fictional household water bill, compute a two-step percent rate increase, and judge whether it is affordable.
Grade 7 Classroom activity
Bottled or Tap? A Gullhaven Cost-Per-Gallon Comparison
A grade 7 activity where teams compute the cost per gallon of bottled water versus tap and weigh cost, quality, and waste for a fictional school.
Grade 7 Worksheet
The Halvorsen Home Leak Audit: Gallons and Dollars Wasted
A grade 7 consumer worksheet where students turn a fictional home's leaks into gallons and dollars per year using real EPA drip and leak figures.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Harwick's Lead Tap Test: Sampling and Probability
A grade 7 worksheet using a fictional town's lead tap results to find the probability a random tap exceeds the action level and decide what to do.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Hydration for Larkfield Middle School's Spring Sports Day
A grade 7 health lesson using a fictional track team's fluid log to build proportional reasoning about how activity time changes how much water the body needs.
Grade 7 Classroom activity
Sampling the System: A Tanner's Bend Water-Testing Game
A grade 7 activity where student teams draw tap samples across a fictional town to learn why one sample can't judge a whole system's water quality.
Grade 7 Reading passage
Forever Chemicals in Verano Springs' Well Water
A grade 7 informational passage on PFAS in a fictional town's wells, the federal limit, and what families can do, with evidence-citing questions.
Grade 7 Reading passage
Reading a Health Advisory: An Algal Bloom at Pinehollow Lake
A grade 7 informational passage on a fictional lake's algal bloom advisory, teaching students to read a water health advisory as a practical consumer and safety skill.