Grade 9 Worksheet
Ospley Water District's PFAS Treatment Costs: A Cost-Benefit Worksheet
A grade 9 economics worksheet where students find the per-household cost of PFAS treatment for a fictional water district and weigh two compliance options.
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 Writing prompt
Requiring Green Stormwater Design in Pellston: An Argument Prompt
A grade 9 argument prompt where students take a position on whether a fast-growing fictional city should require green stormwater design in all new development.
Grade 9 Classroom activity
Rennick's Next Acre-Foot: A Water-Supply Cost Ranking Activity
A grade 9 simulation where teams act as a fictional city's water board, ranking supply options by marginal cost to fill a demand gap at the lowest total cost.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
How Pumping Reshaped the Verdanne Valley: A Geography Lesson
A grade 9 geography lesson where students read a fictional valley's maps to trace how heavy groundwater pumping caused land subsidence and forced a new water law.
Grade 9 Reading passage
The Coming Wave of Water Operator Retirements
A grade 9 informational passage on the aging water workforce, the yearly openings it creates, and the many education paths that lead into water-sector careers.
Grade 9 Reading passage
Nutrients as Pollutant and Resource in the Wend River Estuary
A grade 9 passage on how nitrogen and phosphorus both feed crops and choke a fictional estuary, and how a town's nutrient program produced mixed outcomes.
Grade 9 Writing prompt
Should Halstead Ban Water Shutoffs for Unpaid Bills?
Grade 9 argument prompt on whether a fictional city should stop shutting off water for unpaid bills, using real affordability and rate-trend figures as evidence.
Grade 9 Classroom activity
Merritt's Stormwater Fee: A Public Hearing Role-Play
Grade 9 role-play where students hold a simulated public hearing on a fictional town's stormwater fee, testify as stakeholders, and vote as a council.
Grade 9 Reading passage
The Selby Aquifer and the Rockvale Groundwater District
Grade 9 social studies passage on a fictional farming region that forms a groundwater conservation district to govern a shrinking shared aquifer.
Grade 9 Worksheet
Antelope Wash Water Rights: A Prior Appropriation Worksheet
Grade 9 worksheet where students convert two fictional farms' acre-foot water rights to gallons and apply prior appropriation to a drought-year shortage.
Grade 9 Worksheet
Setting Bridgeton's Water Rates: Tiered Pricing and Affordability
Grade 9 worksheet where students build a two-variable equation for a fictional town's tiered water rate, then test the bill against a real affordability threshold.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
Discolored Water in Corrigan: Citizens, Officials, and Lead
Grade 9 civics lesson using a fictional town's lead contamination scenario and the real Flint case to analyze how citizens hold local government accountable.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
The Kettle River Compact: Sharing a River Between Two States
Grade 9 lesson where students calculate two fictional states' water shares under a river compact and draft a position for a drought-year renegotiation.
Grade 9 Reading passage
The Town Beneath Millbrook Lake: A Dam, a Flood, and a Trade-Off
Grade 9 reading passage on a fictional 1930s dam project that flooded a farming valley, weighing flood control and power against a displaced community's losses.
Grade 9 Worksheet
Spruce County Turbidity: A Water-Quality Compliance Worksheet
Grade 9 worksheet where students calculate a fictional rural water system's monthly turbidity compliance percentage against the real federal 95 percent standard.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
Talbot Bay's Algae Problem: Regulating Point and Nonpoint Pollution
Grade 9 lesson comparing mandatory regulation to voluntary incentives for farm nutrient runoff into a fictional bay, weighing benefits against unintended costs.
Grade 9 Lesson plan
Milldale's Rate Hearing: A Water Infrastructure Economics Lesson
A grade 9 lesson where students calculate a proposed water bill increase, compare it to real national trends, and role-play a public rate hearing over aging pipes.