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Hetch Hetchy: The Story of San Francisco's Water WorksheetHetch Hetchy: The Story of San Francisco's Water Worksheet
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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
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2nd - 4th
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Hetch Hetchy: The Story of San Francisco's Water

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How did San Francisco supply enough water for its residents over the last two centuries? Learn about droughts and water conservation in California, as well as specific historical events that led to the water system today. Kids read two pages and then answer six questions about what they have read.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

water conservation, droughts, reservoirs, dams, san francisco, john muir, hydroelectric power, reading comprehension, california history, the california gold rush

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Pair with a lesson on water conservation or when learning about the history of San Francisco
  • Have kids read articles about droughts that are occurring now, and compare what they have read to the strategies used for water conservation in San Francisco
  • Use in a reading comprehension assessment or language arts packet

Classroom Considerations

  • Consider rewriting the questions for kids to answer if there are too many or too few lines 

Pros

  • Provides an answer key
  • Great for social science, earth science, or language arts lessons

Cons

  • Pages have a lot of text and formatting is uneven, which could make the reading hard for struggling readers to decipher

Common Core

RI.2.1 RI.3.1 RI.4.1

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