Conserving Water Resources

Conserving Water Resources Worksheet (Grade 6 Science, TEKS 6.11B)

People use fresh water for drinking, farming, factories, and energy, but only a small part of Earth’s water is fresh water we can use. This one-page sheet explains groundwater depletion, pollution, and water scarcity, and four solutions: reducing waste, efficient irrigation, reusing water, and protecting watersheds.

What's Inside

• A Big Question box: "How can we make sure there is enough clean fresh water?"
• Three problem cards and four solution doodles, plus what a watershed is
• Activity 1: Students match four water problems to solutions
• Activity 2: Students sort six everyday actions as saving or wasting water
• A visual answer key with answers marked in red

How Teachers Use It

Use it as practice for TEKS 6.11B. The sheet takes about 10 to 15 minutes, needs no prior knowledge beyond the 6.11A sheets, and prints clearly in black and white.

This worksheet is part of the Reading in Science series for grade 6. It supports TEKS 6.11B: explain how conservation, increased efficiency, and technology can help manage air, water, soil, and energy resources. It is one of eight connected TEKS 6.11B sheets that build on the 6.11A resource sheets. Every case study uses the same four questions: resource, human activity, impact, and solution. The unit big idea is that human activities can change how quickly resources are used, replaced, or depleted, and conservation, efficiency, and technology can help manage them.

Why It Works

Each sheet opens with a Big Question, teaches the key terms in plain words with simple black-and-white doodles, and then asks students to use only what the page taught. The same four-question chain repeats across the unit, so students build one way of thinking about any resource problem, and the visual answer key lets teachers check work fast.