Grade 7 Lesson plan
Desalination, Reuse, or Leak Repair: A Water Investment Lesson
A grade 7 civics lesson where pairs use real case studies and a fictional state's cost, time, and energy estimates to rank three water investments.
Water Social Studies & Civics · Grade 7
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 7 Debate kit
Should Combermere Sell Water to the Blackthorn Data Center?
A two-session grade 7 debate on whether a fictional town should sign a 20-year water contract with a data center, with two-sided evidence, roles, and a rubric.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Denniston Hollow's Water Bills: An Affordability Worksheet
A grade 7 worksheet in which students compute three fictional households' water bills as a percent of income and test them against a widely used high-burden guideline.
Grade 7 Project
Drafting Drayfield's Four-Stage Drought Ordinance
A five-session grade 7 project in which teams draft a fictional town's drought ordinance, test it against nine cases, and amend it after a public hearing.
Grade 7 Reading passage
When the Crews Came to Eastvale: Water Aid After an Ice Storm
A grade 7 reading passage on how a fictional town's water crews got help from two neighboring utilities after an ice storm, and why the agreement was signed in advance.
Grade 7 Graphic organizer
Upstream, Here, Downstream on the Fallowick River
A grade 7 graphic organizer tracing six activities along a fictional river to what each does to the water there and what the next place downstream notices.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Farriday's Boil-Water Notice: Who Gets Told First
A grade 7 civics lesson in which students study how a fictional water department must notify customers under a boil-water notice, then compute the percentages and costs.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Buckets or Pipes? A Water Cost Worksheet for 1878 Hallowfield
A grade 7 worksheet comparing what a fictional 1878 household paid a water carrier with what it paid the new town waterworks, using unit rates and percent change.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Three Meetings, One Well Field: How Kingsbarrow Decides
A grade 7 civics lesson comparing three public meetings a fictional town holds about one well field, and what each one lets residents say, decide, and appeal.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Pellingham's Water Bond Vote: A Turnout and Percent Worksheet
A grade 7 worksheet on a fictional town's ballot measure to rebuild its filter plant, using percent to compare turnout, precinct results, and the cost per account.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Who Pays for Tarrowfield's Fire Hydrants?
A grade 7 economics lesson on a fictional town's hydrant costs, in which students compute the yearly cost per account and argue over who should pay for fire protection.
Grade 7 Reading passage
How Bellhaven Won Clean Water: A Public Health Story
A grade 7 social studies passage about a fictional town that fought a waterborne illness by building a sand filter and voting to pay for public health.
Grade 7 Quiz & test questions
Cattail Creek Pollution and Policy: A Grade 7 Quiz
A grade 7 quiz on point and nonpoint water pollution in a fictional watershed, mixing multiple-choice, short-answer, and percent items with a policy question.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Should Cindermere and Nettlefold Share One Sewer Plant?
A 55-minute grade 7 lesson in which two fictional towns weigh building separate sewer plants against one shared plant, then split the cost two ways.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Coldwater Valley's Drought Allocation: Sharing a Shrinking River
A grade 7 social studies lesson using a fictional irrigation district to divide a shrinking river's water between farms and a town during a drought year.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Cranberry Landing's Tiered Water Rates: A Billing Worksheet
A grade 7 worksheet on a fictional utility's tiered water rates, where students compute household bills and see how block pricing rewards using less water.
Grade 7 Writing prompt
Should Deering Fund a Water-Operator Apprenticeship?
A grade 7 argument writing prompt on whether a fictional town should pay to train new water-plant operators as older ones retire, with a counterclaim about cost.
Grade 7 Debate kit
Should Gallowmere County Ban New Septic Systems?
A grade 7 debate kit on whether a fictional county should require new homes over a shallow aquifer to connect to the sewer instead of using septic systems.
Grade 7 Quiz & test questions
Grendon Buys Water From Kilbourne: A Grade 7 Quiz
A 27-point grade 7 quiz on a fictional town choosing between buying treated water from a neighbor and building its own plant, with percent and cost items.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Harwick's Stormwater Fee: A City Council Decision Lesson
A grade 7 civics lesson where students calculate a fictional city's stormwater fee based on paved area and weigh who should pay to manage runoff.
Grade 7 Reading passage
How Hollybank Turned a Parking Lot Into a Marsh
An original grade 7 passage about a fictional town that replaced a downtown parking lot with a constructed wetland, and the close council vote behind it.
Grade 7 Classroom activity
Who Decides About Ivycombe's Wells? A Card Sort
A grade 7 card sort in which groups assign 18 actions on a fictional town's contaminated wells to the federal, state, county, town, and household level.
Grade 7 Worksheet
Testing 250 Taps in the Kestermere Schools
A grade 7 worksheet on a fictional district's lead testing results, using percent shares and filter costs to help a school board set its priorities.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Pennygate's Flooded Street: Buyout, Floodwall, or Lift?
A 50-minute grade 7 civics lesson in which students map a fictional flood-prone street and weigh a buyout, a floodwall, and raising the houses.