Grade 9 Project
After the Wendle River Flood: A Corriebrook Return-Home Health Kit
Teams rank post-flood health hazards from five fictional notices and build a door hanger, a tap-water decision chart, and a 60-second alert for returning families.
Water Health & Consumer Science · Grade 9
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.
14 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 9 Lab / experiment
Ivelstone Storm Kit: How Stored Tap Water Loses Its Chlorine
Students store tap water four ways, track free and total chlorine with test strips for two days, and turn the results into storage rules for a storm kit.
Grade 9 Writing prompt
Tiverly Park Pool in the Sorrelford Drought: An Argument Prompt
Students argue whether a fictional town should close its only public pool to save water in a drought, weighing heat illness, swim lessons, and water quality.
Grade 9 Worksheet
Maren's Cross-Country Sweat Rate and Hydration Worksheet
Grade 9 consumer-health worksheet where students convert a runner's weight loss into ounces, cups, and milliliters to plan fluid replacement.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
The Marwick Household Water Audit: A Grade 9 Home-Use Model Lesson
Students build and graph an equation for a fictional family's daily water use, then test which single change saves the most water at home.
Grade 9 Graphic organizer
Handling a PFAS Advisory at Home: A Grade 9 Options Organizer
A grade 9 compare-and-contrast organizer weighing a certified filter, bottled water, and reverse osmosis as responses to a fictional town's PFAS advisory.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
Reading the Prewitt Family's Tiered Water Bill in Dunbar
A grade 9 consumer-science lesson where students model a fictional tiered water bill as equations and test it against an affordability threshold.
Grade 9 Classroom activity
Reduce Lead at the Tap: A Grade 9 Home-Action Station Rotation
A grade 9 station rotation where students compare tap-lead readings, flush-water use, and filter costs to rank home actions against the lead action level.
Grade 9 Worksheet
The Renslow Well PFAS Report: A Parts-per-Trillion Worksheet
Grade 9 consumer-health worksheet reading a fictional well's PFAS results against the 4.0 ppt limit, with percent-of-limit and trace-concentration math.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
Should the Sattlers Buy a Reverse-Osmosis System? A Cost Lesson
Grade 9 consumer-science lesson comparing the per-gallon cost of a pitcher filter, an under-sink reverse-osmosis system, and bottled water for a family.
Grade 9 Classroom activity
Virtual Water in Two Dinner Menus: A Grade 9 Footprint Activity
A grade 9 small-group activity where students build two dinner menus from food cards and total the hidden water behind each, comparing a beef dinner and a bean dinner.
Grade 9 Reading passage
Why Water Bills Keep Rising: Aging Pipes and a Family Budget
A grade 9 consumer-science reading passage on how aging water pipes, main breaks, and deferred repairs push household water bills up faster than inflation.
Grade 9 Worksheet
The Yardley Home Water-Test Kit: pH, Chlorine, and Turbidity
Grade 9 consumer-health worksheet reading a fictional home test kit and comparing pH, chlorine, turbidity, and hardness to common water-quality guidelines.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
Reading Your Water Quality Report: A Grade 9 Consumer Science Lesson
A grade 9 lesson teaching students to interpret a home water quality report, comparing contaminant levels, units, and percent of regulatory action levels.