Career materials present the full range of water-sector paths, from operator licensure after high school through engineering degrees and graduate research.
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Grade 9 Math problem set
Ten grade 9 careers problems following a fictional operator-in-training through course fees, study hours, a wage step, and the months it takes to earn the cost back.
Grade 9 Reading passage
A grade 9 careers reading passage following a fictional wellfield technician through water-level soundings, a sampling procedure, and the exception that voids a reading.
Grade 9 Project
A four-session grade 9 careers project: teams write a stormwater technician job posting for a fictional town, build a weighted scoring rubric, and rank three applicants.
Grade 9 Project
A five-session grade 9 careers project in which teams staff a fictional district's new PFAS treatment building against licensing rules and a fixed payroll budget.
Grade 9 Quiz & test questions
A 40-point grade 9 careers quiz on the laboratory analyst's job at a fictional certified water lab, covering titrations, dilutions, quality control, and custody records.
Grade 9 Worksheet
A grade 9 careers worksheet where students complete a fictional facility's biosolids log: dry tons, hauling, nitrogen application acres, and permit recordkeeping.
Grade 9 Writing prompt
A grade 9 careers argument prompt: students advise a fictional irrigation district's board on retraining its ditch riders or hiring certified irrigation technicians.
Grade 9 Project
A four-session grade 9 careers project in which teams build the turnover form and escalation rules a fictional membrane plant's operators hand across at shift change.
Grade 9 Math problem set
Ten grade 9 careers problems drilling the conversions an operator certification exam asks for, all drawn from one fictional plant's tanks, flows, and chlorine feed.
Grade 9 Quiz & test questions
A 40-point grade 9 careers quiz on the distribution operator's job at a fictional hillside utility, mixing role questions with pressure, flow, and storage math.
Grade 9 Graphic organizer
A grade 9 organizer mapping four openings at a fictional water utility to the education path, the license or exam involved, and the next step each job leads toward.
Grade 9 Debate kit
A grade 9 debate kit on whether a fictional water district should require a two-year degree for entry-level operator jobs, with two-sided evidence on hiring.
Grade 9 Debate kit
A grade 9 debate kit on whether a fictional town should hire a contract firm to run its water plant instead of employing its own licensed operators.
Grade 9 Worksheet
A grade 9 careers worksheet where students apply a state board's operator licensing rules: plant class, creditable experience, contact hours, and the exam deadline.
Grade 9 Graphic organizer
A grade 9 cause-and-effect organizer that walks a fictional plant's turbidity response step by step, naming who acts at each stage and what each record must show.
Grade 9 Graphic organizer
A grade 9 organizer that maps each record in a fictional utility's lead service line inventory to what it establishes and which job in the utility produces it.
Grade 9 Classroom activity
A grade 9 careers role-play where three-person teams inspect three fictional industries, compute each discharge load in pounds per day, and decide the permit action.
Grade 9 Writing prompt
A grade 9 argument prompt asking students to recommend how a fictional water authority spends one training budget: a degree for one employee or six license upgrades.
Grade 9 Classroom activity
A grade 9 careers rotation through four benches of a fictional water laboratory, where student teams run turbidity, chlorine feed, reporting, and duplicate-check math.
Grade 9 Debate kit
A grade 9 debate kit on whether a fictional regional authority should require every new operator to earn a drinking water license and a wastewater license.
Grade 9 Classroom activity
A grade 9 careers relay where crews work a fictional digester's night log, computing solids reduction, gas yield, and engine output before each call-out decision.
Grade 9 Math problem set
A grade 9 careers math set where students do a distribution operator's calculations for one pump station: drawdown, pressure and head, flow conversions, and fill time.
Grade 9 Career spotlight
A grade 9 career spotlight following a treatment plant operator's shift, covering the state license classes, real pay and openings data, and the on-the-job training path.
Grade 9 Career spotlight
A grade 9 career spotlight on a water utility GIS technician who maps buried pipes and tracks main breaks, covering the two-year and certificate paths into the role.