Grade guides · Usually ages 12 and 13

What children usually learn in Grade 7

What the year usually covers, subject by subject, in our own words from the curriculum you choose, with games that practise it.

Curriculum: United States · Ontario · British Columbia · England

Math

  • Proportional relationships, and percentages in real problems 7.RP
  • Adding, taking away, multiplying and dividing positive and negative numbers 7.NS
  • Solving two-step equations and inequalities 7.EE
  • Scale drawings, circles, and angles that fit together 7.G
  • Chance and probability, and what a sample says about a whole group 7.SP

Practise it with

Reading

  • Several pieces of evidence for what a text says and suggests RL.7.1
  • How a theme develops, and how a setting shapes the characters RL.7.2, RL.7.3
  • Comparing a story with its film, or two authors on one topic RL.7.7, RI.7.9
  • Judging whether an argument's reasons and evidence hold up RI.7.8
  • Arguments that answer the other side, explanations, and stories W.7.1 to W.7.3
  • Discussing in a group, and building on others' ideas SL.7.1

Practise it with

Science

  • Cells, and the body's systems working together MS-LS1
  • Ecosystems, food webs, and energy passing through them MS-LS2
  • Genes, inheritance and variation MS-LS3
  • Fossils, and how living things change over many generations MS-LS4
  • Photosynthesis, and how living things grow MS-LS1

Practise it with

Geography

  • Migration, and how people and ideas spread D2.Geo, 6-8
  • How culture shapes a place, and a place shapes culture D2.Geo, 6-8
  • Natural resources, and how where they are affects trade D2.Geo, 6-8
  • Checking a claim about a place against maps and data D2.Geo, 6-8
  • Comparing two regions of the world D2.Geo, 6-8

Practise it with

History

  • World history: empires, trade, and contact between peoples D2.His, 6-8
  • What people then knew and believed D2.His, 6-8
  • Sources that disagree, and why they do D2.His, 6-8
  • Consequences soon and long after, meant and not meant D2.His, 6-8
  • Arguing a claim about the past with evidence D2.His, 6-8

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Where this comes from

Written in our own words from the documents below. It says what the year usually covers; it is not the official text, which the curriculum's own pages hold.

  • Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Next Generation Science Standards (2013), by NGSS Lead States
  • College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (2013), by National Council for the Social Studies

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