Grades 6–7 Project
Schoolyard Stormwater Runoff: An Audit and Design Project
Teams map their schoolyard's hard and soft surfaces, calculate real stormwater runoff in gallons, trace where it drains, and pitch a fix to a real school decision-maker.
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Grade 10 Project
The Farrowgate Ledger Water Tank Opinion Portfolio
A five-session grade 10 ELA project in which students research a fictional town's aging water tank and publish an op-ed, an opposing rebuttal, and an editor's note.
Grade 10 Project
The Havenbrook Water Explainer: A Research Writing Project
A five-session grade 10 project in which teams turn a four-document utility packet into a four-page plain-language explainer and present it to a library board.
Grade 11 Project
Eleven Days in Wildersett: A Longform Narrative 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
Three Routes into the Halstow Water District: A Career Dossier
A four-session grade 11 ELA research project in which students compare three education paths into water work and recommend one for a named student profile.
Grade 11 Project
Public Comment on the Thurloe Marsh Concentrate Permit
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
The Sedgeley Board's Decision Packet on Fallow Ridge
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
Trellis Point Aquifer Storage: A Research Brief 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 10 Project
Quillback Creek Rainwater Cistern: A Grade 10 Design Project
Grade 10 teams size a rainwater cistern for a school garden, priced by tank surface area, to store 4,000 gallons on a 12-foot pad for $6,000 or less.