Common Core ELA · Grades 11–12
Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., quantitative data, video, multimedia) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
Why water teaches this standard well
Students address water questions by integrating text, quantitative data, and other media, such as combining a drought report, reservoir level data, and a utility usage dashboard to judge whether restrictions are warranted. Water problems arrive in mixed formats, just as this standard assumes.
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Grade 12 Lesson plan
A grade 12 health lesson where students read lake bloom toxin data, explain the nutrient link, and write advisories for swimmers, dog owners, anglers, and lakeside homes.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
A grade 12 careers lesson where students integrate three fictional water utility job postings and a license-class ladder to match candidates to the right roles.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
A grade 11 ELA lesson tracing how a fictional membrane study's claim widens across an abstract, a press release, and a news story, ending in a corrected summary.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Students compare a hydrologist's summary, a utility newsletter, and a museum placard about one snowpack record, then write their own version for a named audience.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
Students weigh a water audit table, a council newsletter, an anonymous forum post, and an engineer's memo to explain a fictional city's unbilled water.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
A grade 11 ELA lesson analyzing agent deletion, nominalization, and concession in two fictional op-eds about a dam, then writing an argument paragraph.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
A 75-minute grade 12 ELA lesson on reading regulatory language closely: students apply a fictional stormwater ordinance to three parcels and defend one determination.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
A 90-minute grade 12 ELA lesson in which students convert a fictional wastewater consent order into an accurate plain-language FAQ for residents.
Grade 12 Lesson plan
A 55-minute grade 12 lesson in which students judge what a utility's customer notice omitted, using its board memo and its own geosmin sampling record.
Grade 11 Lesson plan
A grade 11 ELA lesson where students integrate an informational text, a nutrient data table, and field notes about a fictional lake to evaluate a nutrient-reduction plan.
Grade 12 Worksheet
A grade 12 health worksheet: a young family in a fictional older duplex reads its lead test, converts mg/L to ppb, and plans safe water for mixing infant formula.
Grade 12 Worksheet
A grade 12 health worksheet for new lifeguards: read a fictional indoor pool log, find combined chlorine, and choose the actions that prevent swimmer illness.
Grade 11 Worksheet
A grade 11 worksheet in which students test six claims from a town water report against the chart and notes the report itself supplies.
Grade 11 Worksheet
A grade 11 worksheet on stipulative definitions, in which students apply five defined terms from a draft groundwater ordinance to a table of five wells.
Grade 11 Worksheet
A grade 11 ELA worksheet comparing a fictional 1934 water works report with its 2026 successor, analyzing diction, audience address, and euphemism.
Grade 11 Worksheet
A grade 11 ELA worksheet on signal phrases, reporting verbs, and honest paraphrase, using three fictional documents about nitrate in a farm-country creek.
Grade 11 Worksheet
A grade 11 ELA worksheet where students integrate a short passage with a daily turbidity table from a fictional plant to judge whether the water met standards.
Grade 11 Worksheet
A grade 11 worksheet on hedges, absolutes, and agentless passives in a draft engineering memo about a fictional well whose yield fell across one summer.
Grade 12 Worksheet
A grade 12 ELA worksheet on who is credited with each claim in a news feature about a fictional town's discolored tap water, and on what reporting verbs do to belief.
Grade 12 Worksheet
A grade 12 ELA worksheet where students test each numeric claim in a fictional letter to the editor against the water district's own pump station fact sheet.
Grade 12 Worksheet
A grade 12 ELA worksheet on cohesion and sequence: students repair a fictional utility letter whose sentences are all accurate but arrive in the wrong order.
Grade 11 Worksheet
A grade 11 civics worksheet where students source three documents on federal lead rules and judge whether a fictional city must accelerate pipe replacement.
Grade 12 Worksheet
A grade 12 government worksheet in which students audit a fictional water system's monitoring data against federal standards and flag violations that require action.
Grade 11 Worksheet
A grade 11 worksheet where students read a field report and a fictional watershed's turbidity data table, calculating percent change and interpreting a spike.
Grade 12 Worksheet
A grade 12 worksheet in which students integrate a fictional river basin's reservoir data table with a narrative brief to answer questions about drought staging.
Grade 12 Classroom activity
A grade 12 health activity in which teams rotate through six storm stations in a fictional town, deciding whether to drive, wait, or wade and defending each choice.
Grade 11 Classroom activity
A grade 11 activity in which teams build a process explanation from its end product back to its input, then audit another team's version for assumed steps.
Grade 11 Classroom activity
A grade 11 ELA jigsaw activity where expert groups analyze sections of a fictional utility's water quality report, then synthesize whether the water is safe.
Grade 11 Classroom activity
A grade 11 card-game activity where students match common household water problems to the point-of-use treatment method that best addresses each one.
Grade 12 Reading passage
A grade 12 health passage on wastewater surveillance in a fictional town, with a data table and questions on early warning, rain dilution, privacy, and handwashing.
Grade 12 Reading passage
A grade 12 careers reading passage on the instrumentation and control technician role at a fictional treatment plant, with seven comprehension and inference questions.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 passage and data table on how a fictional reclamation plant reduces antibiotic resistance genes, and why killing bacteria does not remove their DNA.
Grade 12 Reading passage
A grade 12 science passage and data table on how groundwater pumping compacts clay layers, sinks the land surface, and reshapes farming in a fictional valley.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 careers passage following a water quality chemist who leads a utility's PFAS response, with a regulatory timeline and comprehension questions.
Grade 12 Reading passage
A grade 12 careers reading passage on how new PFAS drinking water rules are creating treatment, compliance, and lab jobs, with six comprehension questions.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 informational passage on a fictional constructed treatment wetland, with a seasonal data table and questions on inference, structure, and craft.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 informational passage following a fictional operator trainee through a jar test on a night shift, with questions on inference, craft, and careers.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 informational passage on chlorine demand and residual, using a fictional plant and a sampling table students interpret to judge safety.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 informational passage on stream gaging at a fictional creek, with a rating table students use to judge what a public streamflow number really reports.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 informational passage on cross-connections and backflow, with a fictional pressure log students read alongside the account of a contaminated street.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 informational passage on elevation, pressure, and booster pumps, using a fictional hillside town and a pressure table students must interpret.
Grade 12 Reading passage
A grade 12 informational passage on brackish groundwater desalting, with a plant data table and questions on how an inland town disposes of its salty concentrate.
Grade 12 Reading passage
A grade 12 informational passage on a fictional dam's license renewal, with downstream oxygen and temperature data students read against the text.
Grade 12 Reading passage
A grade 12 informational passage on biological phosphorus removal at a fictional plant, where a wet spring starves the bacteria that do the work, with data and questions.
Grade 12 Reading passage
A grade 12 informational passage in which a fictional county analyst reconciles acre-feet, cubic feet per second, and gallons per day for one irrigation season.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 informational passage on how chlorine disinfection made tap water safe, the residual that protects the pipes, and what a faint chlorine smell means.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 informational passage on why buried water mains fail and how a fictional utility uses leak detection and asset management to renew them.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 passage on aquifer storage and recovery in a fictional city, paired with an injection and recovery table covering efficiency, well clogging, and chemistry.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 science reading passage on how a fictional plant uses anaerobic digestion to turn sludge into biogas energy and recover nutrients as biosolids.
Grade 12 Reading passage
A grade 12 science reading passage on how Earth's water is distributed and how residence time explains why slow reservoirs like deep groundwater are hard to protect.
Grade 12 Reading passage
A grade 12 science passage on how nitrogen and phosphorus both pollute waterways and serve as recovered fertilizer, told through a fictional lake's recovery.
Grade 12 Reading passage
A grade 12 science reading passage on how bacteria strip nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater, framing nutrients as both a pollutant and a recoverable resource.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 informational passage on how U.S. cities built public water systems after 19th-century epidemics, and why those pipes are now aging.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 informational passage tracing how water pricing moved from flat fees to metered and tiered rates, and the incentives each system creates.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 informational passage on why Hoover Dam was built, how it turns flowing water into electricity, and the interstate compact governing the river it holds back.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 informational passage on activated-sludge treatment, using a fictional facility to explain how bacteria remove waste and why stream oxygen levels matter.
Grade 12 Reading passage
A grade 12 informational passage pairing a fictional county's monitoring-well data table with a narrative on aquifer depletion, requiring students to integrate both.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 narrative reading passage of a limnology intern's field notes tracing nitrate runoff, an algae bloom, and a dissolved-oxygen crash at a fictional lake.
Grade 11 Reading passage
A grade 11 passage following two former classmates into water careers, one a licensed treatment operator and one an engineer-in-training, with real BLS workforce data.
Grade 11 Writing prompt
Students weigh injury risk on hard, dry fields against exposure to recycled irrigation water, then argue to a school board using four sources and a fair counterclaim.
Grade 11 Writing prompt
A grade 11 careers explanatory prompt using a sampling manual, a chain of custody form, and a laboratory rejection notice to explain what makes a sample count.
Grade 11 Writing prompt
A grade 11 argument prompt on live publication of a fictional utility's turbidity monitoring, with a one-day log students use as evidence on both sides.
Grade 11 Writing prompt
A grade 11 explanatory writing prompt: turn a fictional town's PFAS well results and treatment options into a plain-language explainer for residents.
Grade 11 Writing prompt
A grade 11 argument writing prompt on whether a fictional town should sell its water system to a private company, with sources, organizer, exemplar, and rubric.
Grade 12 Debate kit
A grade 12 careers debate kit on whether a fictional water district should staff its own main replacement crew, with a cost table, two-sided evidence, and a rubric.
Grade 11 Debate kit
A grade 11 debate kit on whether a fictional town should protect its recharge area with farmland easements or build nitrate treatment, with two-sided evidence and roles.
Grade 11 Debate kit
A grade 11 debate kit on a fictional county's decision about groundwater withdrawals for a data center, with two-sided evidence, roles, and a rubric.
Grade 12 Debate kit
A grade 12 debate kit on whether a fictional water commission should retire upstream cropland or build a nitrate removal plant, with two-sided evidence and a rubric.
Grade 12 Debate kit
A grade 12 debate kit weighing EPA's proposed two-year PFAS exemption for eligible water systems against the cost of delayed protection for affected communities.
Grade 11 Project
A five-session grade 11 ELA project in which students build a braided, three-narrator longform narrative of a boil-water advisory from a fictional document set.
Grade 11 Project
A four-session grade 11 ELA project in which students write a formal comment letter on a draft discharge permit, plus a plain-language version for neighbors.
Grade 12 Project
A six-session grade 12 project in which teams research a fictional water board's three options for a failing well field and deliver a full written decision packet.
Grade 12 Project
A five-session grade 12 ELA project in which teams synthesize a seven-document source packet into a policy brief on aquifer storage or a new reservoir.
Grade 11 Quiz & test questions
A grade 11 careers quiz on the cross-connection control specialist's work, applying a fictional city ordinance and hazard survey to choose backflow assemblies.
Grade 11 Quiz & test questions
A 30-point grade 11 quiz pairing an original explainer on nutrient recovery at a fictional plant with a concentration table students read and write from.
Grade 11 Quiz & test questions
A grade 11 ELA assessment on close reading of a fictional plant's sampling procedure, with 12 items worth 50 points across recall, inference, and revision.
Grade 11 Graphic organizer
A grade 11 careers organizer tracing a fictional water main replacement through eight stages, naming the job title, the product, and the risk at each stage.
Grade 12 Graphic organizer
A grade 12 careers crosswalk organizer mapping each step of a fictional boil-water advisory to the role, credential, record, and handoff that the step requires.
Grade 11 Graphic organizer
A grade 11 Toulmin-style organizer that separates claim, grounds, warrant, backing, qualifier, and rebuttal in an argument about a county nitrate rule.
Grade 11 Graphic organizer
A grade 11 synthesis matrix that sets a rain-gauge log, a public works memo, and three resident accounts against five sub-questions about one flooded street.
Grade 11 Graphic organizer
A grade 11 cause-and-effect chain organizer that separates the links a technical report asserts from the links it only suggests, using a musty-water investigation.