7th grade homeschool curriculum
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An ecosystem is a network of relationships; changing one population can change energy flow, shelter, and survival across the whole system.
- Lesson
- A Forest Is Not Just a List of Species
- Goal
- Model energy transfer in a food web and predict how a targeted intervention could create both benefits and tradeoffs.
- Project
- Build a habitat restoration plan
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7th grade scope and sequence
Math12 units · 54 skills
Proportional relationships6 skills
- Identify a proportional relationship from a table
- Find the constant of proportionality
- Write a proportional equation from a context
- Graph a proportional relationship through the origin
- Use slope as a unit rate
- Compare proportional relationships across forms
Rational number operations5 skills
- Add rational numbers with opposite signs
- Subtract rational numbers using distance
- Multiply signed fractions in a context
- Divide signed rational numbers
- Explain why signs change in multiplication and division
Linear equations and inequalities5 skills
- Solve a two-step equation with rational coefficients
- Solve an equation with variables on both sides
- Write an inequality from a constraint
- Graph a one-variable inequality
- Check a solution against the original context
Percents and financial reasoning4 skills
- Solve a percent increase problem
- Solve a percent decrease problem
- Find simple interest over time
- Compare markup, discount, tax, and tip situations
Angles, circles, and scale5 skills
- Use angle relationships to find an unknown measure
- Find circumference from diameter
- Find area of a circle
- Use scale factor to compare side lengths
- Solve a composite-area problem with circles and polygons
Probability models4 skills
- Find theoretical probability from equally likely outcomes
- Estimate probability from repeated trials
- Use a tree diagram for compound events
- Compare experimental and theoretical probability
Sampling and inference4 skills
- Use a random sample to estimate a population value
- Compare two data distributions by center and spread
- Identify a biased sampling method
- Write a cautious inference from sample data
Linear model introduction4 skills
- Find slope from two points
- Interpret y-intercept in a context
- Write a line from a table
- Compare linear and nonlinear patterns
Mathematical reasoning4 skills
- Break a percent problem into smaller steps
- Use units to catch a wrong answer
- Explain why two proportional methods agree
- Choose a graph that matches a situation
Equation and geometry transfer4 skills
- Write an equation for an angle relationship
- Use an equation to find a scale length
- Model perimeter with a linear expression
- Connect circle formulas to proportional reasoning
Data project4 skills
- Design a sampling question
- Collect and display sample data
- Compare two groups using medians
- Defend a conclusion with sampling limits
Math capstone5 skills
- Solve a proportional finance problem
- Build and interpret a probability model
- Defend a geometry solution with equations
- Critique a statistical claim from a sample
- Present a connected Grade 7 math solution
Reading6 units · 47 skills
Literary reading10 skills
- Identify theme from repeated details
- Explain character motivation
- Analyze how setting shapes conflict
- Interpret figurative language in context
- Compare narrator perspective
- Analyze symbolism
- Trace conflict development
- Compare character arcs
- Analyze how dialogue reveals character
- Infer character change from dialogue
Informational reading8 skills
- Identify central idea
- Trace an author's claim
- Distinguish evidence from commentary
- Summarize a section objectively
- Evaluate source credibility
- Identify text structure
- Evaluate evidence relevance
- Analyze author's assumptions
Media and multimodal reading7 skills
- Interpret a chart embedded in an article
- Connect image evidence to a text claim
- Evaluate a caption's relationship to an image
- Compare video and print accounts of an event
- Evaluate scale in an infographic
- Interpret a timeline embedded in text
- Compare headline and article evidence
Vocabulary7 skills
- Use context clues for an unfamiliar word
- Identify connotation
- Distinguish denotation from connotation
- Use word parts to infer meaning
- Infer meaning from analogy
- Use roots and affixes
- Identify figurative versus literal meaning
Evidence8 skills
- Quote textual evidence accurately
- Paraphrase evidence without changing meaning
- Connect evidence to an inference
- Compare evidence across two texts
- Rank evidence by strength
- Explain why evidence is relevant
- Integrate evidence across genres
- Use two pieces of evidence for one inference
Fluency and text complexity7 skills
- Read grade-level prose with appropriate pacing
- Use punctuation to guide oral phrasing
- Identify sentence complexity in a passage
- Use background knowledge to prepare for a difficult text
- Use paragraph structure to plan reading pace
- Identify unfamiliar syntax before rereading
- Use repeated reading to improve accuracy
English language arts12 units · 52 skills
Literary analysis5 skills
- Analyze how setting and conflict shape character choices
- Trace theme development across a story
- Compare two narrators' points of view
- Explain how imagery shapes mood
- Use embedded quotations in a literary claim
Informational claims and evidence5 skills
- Identify claim, reason, and evidence in an article
- Distinguish strong evidence from interesting detail
- Trace how headings and sections organize an argument
- Compare two authors' explanations of one issue
- Identify loaded language in an informational text
Rhetoric introduction4 skills
- Identify audience and purpose in a speech or editorial
- Explain how repetition emphasizes a point
- Identify appeal to emotion, credibility, or logic
- Evaluate whether a rhetorical choice fits the audience
Grammar and style4 skills
- Use phrases and clauses to add detail
- Edit comma use with coordinate adjectives
- Vary sentence openings for flow
- Choose active verbs over vague verbs
Argument writing5 skills
- Write a claim with two supporting reasons
- Use evidence from multiple sources
- Explain a counterargument fairly
- Write a conclusion that extends the argument
- Revise evidence order for stronger logic
Informational writing4 skills
- Organize an explanation with categories
- Use definitions and examples to teach a concept
- Integrate a quotation smoothly
- Write transitions that show cause and effect
Narrative craft4 skills
- Use point of view deliberately
- Develop a scene with dialogue and action
- Use pacing to build tension
- Revise a narrative for voice
Source-based research4 skills
- Narrow a research question after background reading
- Evaluate source credibility for author and purpose
- Paraphrase evidence with citation
- Group notes by subtopic
Academic discussion4 skills
- Prepare a discussion question that invites evidence
- Connect a comment to another speaker's idea
- Use evidence in a discussion response
- Disagree with a reason and text support
Media literacy4 skills
- Analyze how visuals shape a message
- Compare a news story and opinion piece
- Identify sponsored or persuasive content
- Check a media claim against a source
Revision and editing4 skills
- Revise for precise academic vocabulary
- Edit pronoun-antecedent agreement
- Fix sentence fragments and run-ons
- Strengthen transitions among paragraphs
ELA capstone5 skills
- Write a multi-paragraph literary analysis
- Write a source-based argument
- Present research findings clearly
- Revise a piece through two drafts
- Defend evidence choices in a portfolio reflection
Science12 units · 53 skills
Cell structure and function5 skills
- Identify cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, mitochondria, and chloroplast roles
- Compare plant and animal cells
- Use a microscope image to make a cell claim
- Explain how cell structures support life processes
- Distinguish unicellular and multicellular organization
Energy in organisms5 skills
- Trace energy through producers and consumers
- Explain photosynthesis as matter and energy change
- Explain cellular respiration at a middle-school level
- Compare food webs and energy pyramids
- Predict effects of reduced producer population
Genetics and inheritance5 skills
- Distinguish inherited and acquired traits
- Use a Punnett square for a simple trait
- Explain genotype and phenotype in a family example
- Describe mutation as a DNA change
- Interpret a pedigree for a single trait
Human body systems4 skills
- Explain how circulatory and respiratory systems interact
- Describe digestion as matter breakdown and absorption
- Explain nervous-system signaling in a reflex
- Connect exercise to body-system responses
Evolution and adaptation5 skills
- Explain natural selection with variation and environment
- Use fossil evidence to infer change over time
- Compare structural and behavioral adaptations
- Distinguish individual survival from population change
- Interpret a simple evolutionary tree
Ecosystem dynamics4 skills
- Model competition, predation, and mutualism
- Explain carrying capacity with limiting factors
- Use population data to identify a trend
- Predict effects of invasive species
Microbes and health4 skills
- Distinguish bacteria, viruses, and fungi
- Explain how vaccines prepare immune response
- Describe antibiotic resistance as selection
- Evaluate hygiene claims with evidence
Earth and life connections4 skills
- Connect climate patterns to biome distribution
- Explain how water availability shapes ecosystems
- Use a map to compare biodiversity patterns
- Describe human impacts on habitat change
Biotechnology introduction4 skills
- Explain selective breeding with examples
- Interpret a simple DNA fingerprint pattern
- Compare benefits and risks of a biotechnology use
- Use evidence to discuss genetic privacy
Life science investigation4 skills
- Design an investigation with living or model organisms
- Control variables in a growth experiment
- Use repeated measurements for organism data
- Write a claim about a biological pattern
Engineering for living systems4 skills
- Define a problem related to health or ecosystems
- Design a model solution with biological constraints
- Test a prototype using organism or ecosystem criteria
- Revise a design from data
Science capstone5 skills
- Explain an organism system with cells, traits, and environment
- Use data to defend an ecosystem claim
- Compare two biological explanations
- Discuss limits of a life-science model
- Present a Grade 7 evidence argument
History12 units · 54 skills
Post-classical historical methods5 skills
- Explain periodization by distinguishing ancient, medieval, post-classical, and early modern labels
- Use maps to compare political fragmentation, trade routes, religious zones, and empire boundaries
- Corroborate a travel account with a map, artifact, legal source, or later interpretation
- Identify continuity and change across 500-1750 without treating Europe as the whole story
- Defend a Grade 7 historical claim about post-classical historical methods using conflicting evidence
Byzantine and Islamic worlds4 skills
- Explain Byzantine preservation, Orthodox Christianity, Justinian law, and imperial geography
- Trace the rise of Islam through Arabian context, revelation, community, and caliphate expansion
- Analyze Abbasid Baghdad as a center of translation, science, trade, and administration
- Compare Sunni-Shia divisions, legal traditions, and political authority in Islamic history
African kingdoms and trade5 skills
- Explain Ghana, Mali, and Songhai through gold-salt trade, Islam, taxation, and geography
- Analyze Mansa Musa's pilgrimage as evidence of wealth, faith, diplomacy, and global connection
- Compare Swahili coast city-states through Indian Ocean trade, Islam, language, and architecture
- Use oral tradition and archaeology to reason carefully about African political history
- Defend a Grade 7 historical claim about african kingdoms and trade using conflicting evidence
Medieval Europe4 skills
- Explain feudal obligations, manorialism, Church authority, and local political order
- Analyze the Crusades through religious, political, economic, and cross-cultural causes
- Assess Magna Carta, Parliament, and legal limits on monarchy as institutional changes
- Explain the Black Death through trade networks, social disruption, labor, and religious response
South and Southeast Asia5 skills
- Compare Delhi Sultanate and Mughal foundations through rule, religion, military power, and culture
- Analyze Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic interactions in South Asian politics and society
- Explain Angkor, Srivijaya, and maritime Southeast Asia through water, temples, and trade
- Use art and architecture as evidence for cultural exchange and political authority
- Defend a Grade 7 historical claim about south and southeast asia using conflicting evidence
East Asia after Han4 skills
- Explain Tang and Song governance, exams, urbanization, printing, commerce, and technology
- Compare samurai Japan, Heian court culture, shogunate power, and social hierarchy
- Analyze Mongol conquest, Yuan rule, trade protection, and cross-Eurasian exchange
- Assess Ming voyages and later restrictions through state priorities and maritime power
Americas before Columbus4 skills
- Compare Maya city-states, calendars, writing, warfare, and environmental constraints
- Explain Mexica-Aztec power through tribute, military alliances, religion, and city planning
- Analyze Inca roads, labor obligations, quipu, terraces, and imperial integration
- Evaluate how geography shaped political forms in Mesoamerica, Andes, and North America
Renaissance, Reformation, and science5 skills
- Explain Renaissance humanism, patronage, printing, city-states, and classical revival
- Analyze Reformation causes through theology, printing, politics, corruption, and state power
- Compare Catholic reform, religious wars, and toleration as responses to fragmentation
- Trace scientific revolution claims through observation, mathematics, instruments, and authority
- Defend a Grade 7 historical claim about renaissance, reformation, and science using conflicting evidence
Exploration and Columbian Exchange5 skills
- Explain Portuguese and Spanish expansion through navigation, trade, conquest, and state rivalry
- Analyze Columbian Exchange effects on disease, crops, animals, labor, population, and environment
- Compare Indigenous, African, and European experiences of conquest and exchange
- Use maps and demographic evidence to explain global change after 1492
- Trace Zheng He, Prince Henry, Dias, da Gama, Columbus, and Magellan across motives, routes, and consequences
Atlantic slavery and empire4 skills
- Explain Atlantic slavery through plantation demand, racial ideology, law, violence, and profit
- Analyze resistance through maroon communities, rebellion, everyday survival, and culture
- Compare Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English imperial systems in the Americas
- Evaluate mercantilism, chartered companies, and colonial trade as state-backed economic systems
Gunpowder empires and absolutism4 skills
- Compare Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, and Qing state-building through military, taxation, and legitimacy
- Explain European absolutism and constitutionalism through Louis XIV, Parliament, and fiscal states
- Analyze religious diversity and state control in early modern empires
- Assess how gunpowder, bureaucracy, and trade reshaped power between 1450 and 1750
Early modern global history capstone5 skills
- Build a comparative argument about two early modern empires using political and economic evidence
- Explain a global exchange network with causes, participants, commodities, coercion, and effects
- Evaluate a source from travel, trade, mission, or conquest for perspective and limits
- Present a claim about 500-1750 global change with evidence, counterclaim, and map support
- Defend a Grade 7 historical claim about early modern global history capstone using conflicting evidence
FAQ
- What happens when my child is stuck in a lesson?
- Your child asks the Always-On Mentor, which sits beside every reading and project. It answers questions about any highlighted passage, from a linear equation to a diagram of a cell, and draws the idea step by step on its board when words are not enough. On a project it guides each step and leaves the work to your child.
- How much time does school take each day?
- There is no fixed daily length. Each lesson shows its estimated time, and our Parent Dashboard adds up the day, so you can see the hours against your state's instruction-time rules.
- What math does 7th grade cover?
- Pre-algebra for most students: proportional relationships, rational numbers, expressions and equations, geometry, and basic probability. Some are ready for Algebra 1, and placement decides which by checking the fraction and decimal work underneath.
- Which skills does my 7th grader need before algebra?
- Fluent fractions and decimals, comfort with a letter standing in for a number, and being able to explain a method. Placement checks those skills and starts your child in pre-algebra or Algebra 1 to match.
- How do I prepare my 7th grader for high school?
- The path builds math, writing, and planning habits: keeping a list, working across days, and asking specific questions when stuck. Coursework and grades stay on file for the high-school record.
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