Water Engineering & Design · Grade 9

Students take on design and testing challenges drawn from real infrastructure, including filters, towers, dams, and stormwater improvements, with budgets and constraints.

29 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog

Grade 9 Worksheet

Culverstone Main Replacement: Sizing a Thrust Block

A grade 9 worksheet on a fictional water main replacement where students find the thrust at a bend under test pressure and size the concrete block that resists it.

Engineering & Design 40 min Answer key

Grade 9 Quiz & test questions

Dunhaven Water Storage and Distribution: A Unit Test

A grade 9 test on a fictional water system covering tank volume, pressure from head, demand conversion, and fire-flow reserve, with choice and computation items.

Engineering & Design 40 min Answer key

Grade 9 Worksheet

Hollowbrook Treatment Wetland: Sizing a Natural System

A grade 9 worksheet where students size a constructed treatment wetland for a fictional small community, finding area, removal efficiency, and detention time.

Engineering & Design 40 min Answer key

Grade 9 Worksheet

Kestrelmoor Plating Rinse: Sizing a Neutralization Tank

A grade 9 worksheet sizing a pH neutralization tank for a fictional plating shop, covering detention time, tank geometry, caustic use, cost, and a permit check.

Engineering & Design 40 min Answer key

Grade 9 Lab / experiment

Nethercote Service Lines: A Bench Test of Length and Flow

A grade 9 lab where students hold head constant and measure how tubing length and inner diameter change delivered flow, then apply the result to a fictional town.

Engineering & Design 60 min Answer key

Grade 9 Quiz & test questions

Quennfield Plant Upgrade: A Design and Sizing Unit Test

A 35-point grade 9 unit test on a fictional plant upgrade, mixing criteria and constraint items with detention time, chemical feed, filter loading, and pressure math.

Engineering & Design 50 min Answer key

Grade 9 Math problem set

Ash Creek Treatment Plant: Detention, Filters, Chlorine

A grade 9 engineering set on a surface water plant: students size a sedimentation basin's detention time, a filter loading rate, and a chlorine feed in pounds per day.

Engineering & Design 50 min Answer key

Grade 9 Lab / experiment

Building and Testing a Multimedia Water Filter Column

A grade 9 engineering lab where students build a gravel, sand, and charcoal filter column, then test it by measuring water clarity and flow rate across two trials.

Engineering & Design 55 min Answer key

Grade 9 Project

Juniper Bend Treatment Train Design Challenge

A grade 9 engineering project where teams design a four-stage drinking water treatment train for a fictional town within a flow, footprint, and budget.

Engineering & Design 5 sessions, ~275 min total Answer key

Grade 9 Math problem set

Marsh Landing Seawater Reverse Osmosis: Recovery and Flux

A grade 9 engineering set on a seawater reverse osmosis plant: students find permeate and concentrate flows, membrane flux, a concentration factor, and daily energy.

Engineering & Design 45 min Answer key