Grade 8 Lesson plan
Designing a PFAS Public-Notice Sign for Harrow Valley
A grade 8 art lesson where students design a clear, honest public-notice sign telling a neighborhood that its wells are now treated to remove PFAS.
C3 Framework · Grades 6–8
D2.Civ.14.6-8 Means of changing societies and promoting the common good
Compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies, and promoting the common good.
Why water teaches this standard well
The sanitation reform movement of the nineteenth century and today's conservation campaigns and citizen water-quality testing are both means of changing society for the common good. Students can compare how reformers then and now pushed their communities toward safe water.
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11 materials aligned to D2.Civ.14.6-8
Lesson plans
Grade 6 Lesson plan
The Ledburn Mills Sanitation Petition of 1897
Grade 6 students compare an 1897 mill-town petition with a present-day letter about sewer overflows, then explain how each group pressed its town for change.
Grade 8 Lesson plan
Hoover Dam and the Reshaping of the Colorado River Basin
A grade 8 case-study lesson comparing Hoover Dam's Depression-era construction with today's water infrastructure investment need, using real capacity and funding figures.
Grade 7 Lesson plan
Storm Drain Stencil Campaign: A Civic Art Lesson for Alder Creek
A grade 7 art lesson where students design a stencil message and icon warning that storm drains carry runoff untreated into the fictional Alder Creek.
Worksheets
Grade 7 Worksheet
Buckets or Pipes? A Water Cost Worksheet for 1878 Hallowfield
A grade 7 worksheet comparing what a fictional 1878 household paid a water carrier with what it paid the new town waterworks, using unit rates and percent change.
Classroom activities
Grade 7 Classroom activity
Foundry Hill Lead-Line Door Hanger Icon Design
A grade 7 art activity where students design clear icons for a door hanger urging a fictional town's homes to check for lead water lines.
Reading passages
Grade 7 Reading passage
When the Crews Came to Eastvale: Water Aid After an Ice Storm
A grade 7 reading passage on how a fictional town's water crews got help from two neighboring utilities after an ice storm, and why the agreement was signed in advance.
Grade 7 Reading passage
How Bellhaven Won Clean Water: A Public Health Story
A grade 7 social studies passage about a fictional town that fought a waterborne illness by building a sand filter and voting to pay for public health.
Grade 8 Reading passage
The Cuyler River Comes Back: Sewage, Law, and Recovery
A grade 8 history passage tracing a fouled river from raw sewage to recovery after the Clean Water Act, with questions on how public pressure drove change.
Grade 7 Reading passage
No Fence Underground: Who Owns the Water Beneath a Farm?
A grade 7 informational passage on groundwater rights, following a fictional farming region's shift from unlimited private pumping toward shared conservation rules.
Grade 8 Reading passage
From Sanitary Reform to Citizen Testing: Movements for Safe Water
A grade 8 informational passage comparing nineteenth-century sanitary reform movements with today's citizen water-testing efforts, including a brief look at Flint.