7th Grade Curriculum

English
The purpose of this course is to build and strengthen the student’s language skills with the following:

Proper sentence structure
Understanding of Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs and complement
Adjectives
Adverbs
Essay Writing
Prepositions
Conjunctions and Interjections

Reading
Novel Readings
Research

Spelling
Vocabulary

Geography
The World's People
The United States
US Government Canada – land, people, and climate
Mexico – land, people, and climate
Central America – land, people, and climate
West Indies – land, people, and climate
South America Project – land, people, and climate
The British Isles and Scandinavia – the land, people, and climate
Northwestern and Southern Europe – land, people, and climate
Eastern Europe – the land, people, and climate
Russia – including history – the land, people, and climate
Independent Republics – the land, people, and climate

Life Science

Exploring and Classifying
Life Cell Structure
Cell processes
Viruses
Viewing Cells
Cell reproduction
Hurricane tracking
Heredity
Introduction to Animals
Mollusks
Worms
Arthropods
Echinoderms
Fish
Amphibians
Reptiles
Mammals

Math
Solving Order of Operations
Variables and Expressions
Evaluation Expressions
Properties
Variables and Equations
Solving Equations
Solving Inequalities Measuring in Metric Unit
Using a Problem-Solving Plan
Scientific Notation
Divisibility test
Prime Factorization
Simplifying fractions
Mixed numbers and Improper fractions
Fractions and Decimals Adding fractions
Subtracting fractions
Multiplying fractions
Dividing fractions
Customary system
Understanding Percents
Percent, Fractions, and Decimals
Percents greater than 100% and less than 1%
Finding percent of a number
Solving percents using proportions
Applications of Percents
Percent of change Probability
Experimental Probability
Sample Space
Compound Events
Permutations
Combinations Solving integers
Evaluating Order of operation
Evaluating
One and two step inequalities
Equations with fractions Graphing points on four quadrants
Graphing linear equations
Finding the slope of a line
Exploring nonlinear relationships Circumference of a circle
Square roots and irrational numbers
The Pythagorean Theorem Lines and planes
Measuring and Classifying angles
Triangles
Quadrilaterals and other polygons
Circles.