Grade 9 Lesson plan
Protecting the Applecross Watershed Across Town Lines
A grade 9 lesson in which students negotiate as a joint watershed board over a fictional town's attempt to restrict land use in the township that holds its water supply.
Water Social Studies & Civics · Grade 9
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 9 Debate kit
Should Ardenvale Lease Its Water System to a Private Operator?
A grade 9 debate kit on a fictional city's twenty-year concession offer, with evidence on both sides and a council panel that must vote at the end.
Grade 9 Project
Drafting Ashperton's Four-Stage Drought Ordinance
A four-session grade 9 project in which teams write a staged drought ordinance for a fictional town board, including enforcement, equity, and a revenue memo.
Grade 9 Writing prompt
Should Brayhampton Landlords Disclose Lead Service Lines?
A grade 9 argument writing prompt on a fictional rental disclosure ordinance, with background, a planning organizer, a full exemplar essay, and a four-level rubric.
Grade 9 Worksheet
The 1873 Cravenhurst Outbreak: Mapping a Water Supply
A grade 9 worksheet in which students turn ward case counts from a fictional 1873 outbreak into rates and judge what the health officer's map revealed.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
Crowhaven's Storm Sewer Map: Where Past Spending Went
A grade 9 lesson in which students shade two district maps of a fictional city and find that the districts with the oldest storm sewers received the least investment.
Grade 9 Worksheet
Dividing the Ferncliffe Coatings PFAS Settlement Fund
A grade 9 worksheet in which students test three ways of splitting a fictional PFAS settlement among three water systems and decide who pays the remainder.
Grade 9 Graphic organizer
Three Ways Hollingford Could Own Its Water System
A grade 9 three-column organizer comparing a city department, a regional authority, and an investor-owned utility on who decides, who pays, and who can object.
Grade 9 Worksheet
Annexation or Wells: The Pikeworth Hollow Water Extension
A grade 9 worksheet costing out a fictional city water main extension and weighing the annexation condition the city attaches to the offer.
Grade 9 Debate kit
Should Ryehill Sell Treated Water to Neighboring Pentrewick?
A grade 9 debate kit on a fictional twenty-year wholesale water contract, weighing revenue and spare plant capacity against a town's own future supply.
Grade 9 Debate kit
Should Bramblecote Permit the Highfern Aquifer Bottling Plant?
A two-session grade 9 debate kit on a fictional town's twenty-year groundwater withdrawal permit, with a two-sided evidence file and a written case brief.
Grade 9 Project
Coppleston County's Small Water Systems: A Consolidation Study
A five-session grade 9 project in which teams map six fictional county water systems, compare bill burdens, and recommend whether to form a regional authority.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
Harrowmere's Sewershed Testing Proposal: A Board Hearing
A 60-minute grade 9 civics lesson in which students hold a sanitary district hearing on neighborhood-level wastewater testing and weigh public health against privacy.
Grade 9 Worksheet
Kirkbourne's Biosolids Ordinance: A Nutrient Loading Worksheet
A grade 9 worksheet using the pounds formula to test whether a fictional town's proposed setback ordinance would end land application of treated biosolids.
Grade 9 Worksheet
Loamside's Data Center Water Agreement: A Capacity Worksheet
A grade 9 worksheet in which students convert plant capacity units, test a fictional town's remaining growth room, and price a data center's water contract.
Grade 9 Reading passage
The Ossington Aqueduct and the Emptying of Tilcombe Vale
A grade 9 social studies reading passage on a fictional city's 1920s aqueduct, the farming valley it drained, and the law that returned part of the water.
Grade 9 Worksheet
One Acre, One Vote in the Pennyfold Irrigation District
A grade 9 worksheet comparing acreage-weighted and per-owner voting in a fictional irrigation district, with vote shares, a majority inequality, and a vote cap.
Grade 9 Writing prompt
Should Ryecroft County Fund a Water Operator Academy?
A grade 9 argument writing prompt in which students weigh a fictional county's operator training academy against an open scholarship fund, using BLS workforce data.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
The 1911 Filtration Bond Vote in Stonebury: A Council Lesson
A 50-minute grade 9 civics lesson using three fictional 1911 documents to examine how a city council decided to filter and chlorinate its drinking water.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
Wickhaven's Service Line Ordinance: Who Pays for the Pipe?
A 55-minute grade 9 civics lesson in which students price two lead service line replacement plans for a fictional city and judge which one meets the federal deadline.
Grade 9 Quiz & test questions
Financing Safe Water in Brackenridge: A Policy and Economics Quiz
A grade 9 quiz mixing multiple-choice, short-answer, and computation items on water infrastructure funding, affordability, and the outcomes of delaying pipe replacement.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
Funding Draymoor's Aging Water Mains: A Grade 9 Trade-off Lesson
A grade 9 civics and economics lesson where students act as budget analysts and weigh a rate increase against a bond to fund a fictional city's pipe replacement.
Grade 9 Debate kit
Should Graymont Recycle Wastewater into Drinking Water? A Debate Kit
A grade 9 debate kit on whether a fictional city should recycle its wastewater into drinking water, with two-sided evidence on cost, safety, and drought.
Grade 9 Worksheet
Larkspur County's Virtual Water Exports: A Farm Trade Worksheet
A grade 9 geography worksheet where students calculate the virtual water in a fictional county's beef and wheat shipments and reason about drought, trade, and land use.