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The Language of Operations
Students learn the precise vocabulary for all four arithmetic operations (sum, difference, product, quotient, factor, dividend, divisor) and connect these terms to real-world situations while building confidence through familiar contexts.
Heredity - Vocabulary
A robust Grade 7 genetics vocabulary reference aligned to heredity, dominant and recessive traits, genetic variation, and mutation.
Predicting Traits
Students learn how to use Punnett squares to predict the probability of offspring inheriting specific traits, understanding dominant and recessive alleles, genotypes, and phenotypes.
Graphing Motion
Students learn to create and interpret position-time graphs, calculate speed from slope, identify periods of rest, constant speed, and acceleration from graph shape, and compare the motion of multiple objects on the same graph.
States of Matter and Phase Changes
Students learn how particle arrangement and motion differ across solids, liquids, and gases, explore all six phase changes and the role of thermal energy, and interpret heating curves to understand what happens at each plateau.
Weather and Climate Unit Introduction
A 45-minute introduction lesson where students differentiate weather from climate, explain air masses and fronts, interpret weather maps, and connect the water cycle to weather patterns.
Food Webs & Energy Flow
A 30 minute Grade 8 lesson on how energy enters ecosystems (mainly sunlight), how producers convert it to chemical energy, and how energy is transferred and lost as heat through a food web.
Fractions and Decimals: Two Languages, One Idea
Students discover that fractions and decimals are two representations of the same value, master equivalent fractions and simplifying using GCF, convert between improper fractions and mixed numbers, understand the reciprocal, and connect fraction-to-decimal conversion to the division meaning of a fraction.
Matter and Its Interactions - Remix
A fast-paced review of the first three lessons covering atoms and subatomic particles, phases and properties of matter, and elements and the periodic table. Designed to get students caught up and re-oriented after absences.
Unit Review - Heredity: Inheritance and Variation
Comprehensive unit review covering heredity and genetics: inherited vs. acquired traits, DNA/chromosomes/genes, alleles and dominance, genotype vs. phenotype, Punnett squares, sexual vs. asexual reproduction, genetic variation and survival, and environmental effects on inheritance.
Under Our Feet
Students explore how water moves through soil and rock to form aquifers, understand how watersheds collect and channel water, and analyze human impacts on water quality.
Expressions, Equations, and Mathematical Reasoning
Students learn the vocabulary of algebra (variables, expressions, equations, terms, coefficients, and constants) and apply order of operations (PEMDAS), properties of operations, and expression evaluation to build the foundation for all 6th grade mathematics.
Reading the Rock Record
Students learn to read Earth's history from rock layers using the Law of Superposition, index fossils for correlation, relative and absolute dating methods including radiometric dating and half-lives, the geologic time scale, and additional geological evidence from ice cores, faults, and igneous intrusions.
Evidence for Evolution
Students explore four major lines of evidence for biological evolution: the fossil record (including transitional fossils), comparative anatomy (homologous, analogous, and vestigial structures), embryology, and molecular biology (DNA comparisons). Students also learn how modern classification systems reflect evolutionary relationships.
Why Charlotte Doesn't Freeze in June: Seasons & Earth's Tilt
Students watch the Generation Genius 'Causes of Seasons' video and build a mental model of how Earth's axial tilt, not its distance from the Sun, drives seasonal changes in temperature, daylight hours, and sunlight intensity across the hemispheres. The lesson connects abstract orbital mechanics to students' lived experience of seasons in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Grade 7 Science Assessment
Comprehensive assessment covering NC DPI 2023 K-12 Science Standards for Grade 7
Number Relationships and Place Value
Students deepen their understanding of factors and multiples, distinguish prime from composite numbers, find GCF and LCM, and extend place value knowledge through thousandths, building the vocabulary and number sense needed for fraction and decimal operations.