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Grade 7 curriculum map

Every subject, unit, and learning outcome

A transparent look at exactly what your child works towards in Grade 7. Each unit lists the specific learning outcomes: what a child will be able to do by the end of it.

🔢Math🔬Science📖ELA💻Computational Thinking
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Math

⚖️Proportional Reasoning

  • Compute unit rates from ratios involving fractions (e.g., walking ½ mile in ¼ hour is 2 miles per hour).
  • Recognise and represent proportional relationships using tables, graphs, equations, and descriptions.
  • Decide whether two quantities are proportional by checking if their ratios stay equal, or if the graph is a straight line through the origin.
  • Identify the constant of proportionality (the unit rate) from a table, graph, equation, diagram, or description.
  • Represent proportional relationships with an equation (e.g., total cost = price × number of items).
  • Explain what a point (x, y) on the graph means in context, especially (0, 0) and (1, r) where r is the unit rate.
  • Solve scale-drawing problems: find actual lengths and areas from a scale, and reproduce a drawing at a different scale.

➗Rational Number Sense & Arithmetic

  • Add and subtract positive and negative rational numbers (fractions, decimals, integers) using a number line.
  • Describe situations where opposite quantities combine to make zero (e.g., a proton and an electron give a net charge of zero).
  • Understand p + q as starting at p and moving |q| units (right if q is positive, left if negative); a number and its opposite always sum to zero.
  • Understand subtraction as adding the opposite, and that the distance between two numbers is the absolute value of their difference.
  • Use properties of operations (commutative, associative) to add and subtract rational numbers efficiently.
  • Multiply and divide positive and negative rational numbers, extending the rules for fractions to all rationals.
  • Understand why the rules for multiplying signed numbers work (e.g., a negative times a negative is positive).
  • Understand that any integer divided by a non-zero integer gives a rational number.
  • Use properties of operations to multiply and divide rational numbers efficiently.
  • Convert a rational number to a decimal by long division, knowing it either terminates or repeats (e.g., 1/3 = 0.333…).
  • Solve real-world problems using all four operations on rational numbers (e.g., temperature, debt, elevation, speed).

🏷️Percent & Percentage Change

  • Use proportional relationships to solve multi-step percent problems: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, tips, commissions, fees, and percent increase or decrease.
  • Solve multi-step real-life problems with rational numbers in any form, converting between forms and checking answers with estimation.

🧩Algebra: Expressions & Equations

  • Add, subtract, factor, and expand linear expressions with rational coefficients (e.g., expand 3(x + 5) to 3x + 15).
  • Understand that rewriting an expression can reveal something new (e.g., a + 0.05a = 1.05a shows that increasing by 5% means multiplying by 1.05).
  • Solve word problems that lead to equations of the form px + q = r and p(x + q) = r, and compare the algebraic solution to an arithmetic one.

🔣Algebra: Inequalities

  • Solve word problems that lead to inequalities like px + q > r or px + q < r, graph the solution set, and interpret it in context (e.g., “you need at least X sales”).

📐Geometric Measurement

  • Draw shapes given conditions, building triangles from three angle or side measures and noticing when the conditions give a unique triangle, many, or none.
  • Describe the 2D shapes that result from slicing 3D figures (e.g., the cross-section of a rectangular prism or pyramid).
  • Know and use the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle, and informally derive the link between them.
  • Use facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles to write and solve equations for unknown angles.
  • Solve real-world problems involving area, volume, and surface area of 2D and 3D objects made of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and right prisms.

🎲Data, Statistics & Probability

  • Understand that a representative sample can reveal information about a whole population, and that random sampling tends to produce representative samples.
  • Use data from a random sample to draw inferences about a population, generating multiple samples to gauge how much an estimate might vary.
  • Informally compare two numerical data distributions with similar spreads by measuring the difference between their centres relative to their variability.
  • Use measures of centre (mean, median) and variability (range, MAD) from samples to compare two populations.
  • Understand probability as a number between 0 and 1: near 0 is unlikely, around ½ is even, near 1 is very likely.
  • Approximate the probability of an event from its long-run relative frequency, and predict long-run frequency from a probability.
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Science

⚛️Chemistry: Matter & the Particle Model

  • Describe the Rutherford model of the atom: a small dense nucleus (protons and neutrons) with electrons orbiting around it.
  • State the charges of subatomic particles: proton positive, electron negative, neutron neutral.
  • Explain that the attraction between the positive nucleus and negative electrons holds the atom together.
  • Describe concentration as the number of solute particles per volume of solvent.
  • Use the particle model to explain pressure in gases and liquids (more collisions mean more pressure).
  • Describe diffusion as particles moving and mixing from high to low concentration.

⚗️Chemistry: Reactions & Energy Changes

  • Describe common differences between metals and non-metals from their physical properties.
  • Write word equations for chemical reactions (reactants give products).
  • Classify reactions as endothermic (absorb energy, temperature drops) or exothermic (release energy, temperature rises).
  • Explain that reactions can produce impure mixtures, not always a single pure product.
  • Identify generally unreactive (inert) substances such as gold and the noble gases.
  • Describe the reactivity series of metals (e.g., Na, K, Ca, Mg, Zn, Fe, Cu, Au, Ag) with oxygen, water, and dilute acids.

🫁Biology: Respiration & the Respiratory System

  • Describe blood components: red blood cells carry oxygen, white blood cells defend against pathogens, and plasma transports cells, nutrients, and carbon dioxide.
  • Describe the respiratory system (trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli) and how it is adapted for gas exchange (large surface area, thin walls, rich blood supply).
  • Explain the roles of the diaphragm and intercostal muscles in breathing.
  • Distinguish breathing (moving air in and out) from respiration (releasing energy in cells).
  • Describe how oxygen diffuses from the alveoli into blood, and carbon dioxide from blood into the alveoli.
  • State that aerobic respiration happens in mitochondria and releases energy in a controlled way.
  • Write and use the word equation: glucose plus oxygen gives carbon dioxide plus water.

🍎Biology: Health & Lifestyle

  • Identify the parts of a balanced diet and what each does (protein, carbohydrates, fats, water, minerals, vitamins).
  • Explain that carbohydrates and fats are energy stores, and animals eat to get both energy and nutrients.
  • Discuss how diet and smoking affect human growth, development, and health.
  • Identify ball-and-socket joints (shoulder, hip) and hinge joints (knee, elbow).
  • Explain how antagonistic muscle pairs (e.g., biceps and triceps) move bones at a hinge joint.

🏃Physics: Forces & Motion

  • Calculate speed using speed = distance ÷ time, and rearrange the formula for distance or time.
  • Interpret and draw distance-time graphs, recognising stationary, constant speed, and faster speed.
  • Describe the effects of balanced forces (no change) and unbalanced forces (speeding up, slowing down, or changing direction).
  • Calculate turning forces using moment = force × distance from the pivot.
  • Calculate density (mass ÷ volume) and use it to predict whether an object floats or sinks.
  • Explain pressure as force per unit area and apply it to real situations (snowshoes, drawing pins, hydraulics).

💡Physics: Light, Colour & Vision

  • Describe reflection at a flat surface and state the law of reflection (angle of incidence equals angle of reflection).
  • Describe refraction at an air-glass or air-water boundary as a change in direction caused by a change in speed.
  • Explain that white light is a mix of colours, shown by dispersion through a prism.
  • Describe how colours of light can be added, subtracted with filters, absorbed, and reflected.

🌍Biology: Ecosystems

  • Identify different ecosystems and the variety of habitats within each.
  • Describe how toxic substances build up through food chains, increasing at higher trophic levels.
  • Describe how a new or invasive species can affect native organisms and destabilise an ecosystem.
  • Classify resources as renewable (wind, solar, tidal, bioplastics) or non-renewable (fossil fuels).
  • Describe evidence that Earth’s climate cycles between warm periods and ice ages over long time spans.
  • Explain that Earth’s climate can change due to atmospheric changes such as greenhouse gases.
  • Distinguish climate (a long-term average) from weather (short-term conditions).
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ELA

⚖️Argument & Evidence

  • Write arguments that support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
  • Introduce a claim, acknowledge counterclaims, and organise reasons and evidence logically.
  • Support claims with sound reasoning and accurate, credible evidence.
  • Use words and phrases (e.g., “because”, “however”, “as a result”) to connect claims, reasons, and evidence.
  • Establish and maintain a formal style.
  • Write a conclusion that follows from and reinforces the argument.
  • Cite several pieces of evidence to support analysis of what an informational text says and implies.
  • Determine two or more central ideas in a text, analyse how they develop, and write an objective summary.
  • Trace and evaluate an argument and its claims, judging whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence sufficient.
  • Take part effectively in collaborative discussions, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
  • Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched the material in advance.
  • Follow agreed discussion rules, track progress towards goals, and take on roles as needed.
  • Pose questions that invite elaboration and respond with relevant observations that keep the discussion on topic.
  • Acknowledge new information from others and modify their own views when warranted.

🔍Close Reading & Vocabulary

  • Cite several pieces of evidence to support analysis of what a literary text says and implies.
  • Read and understand grade-level literature (stories, dramas, poems) proficiently by year end.
  • Read and understand grade-level literary non-fiction proficiently by year end.
  • Work out the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words using a range of strategies.
  • Use context as a clue to a word’s meaning.
  • Use Greek and Latin roots and affixes (e.g., “tele-”, “-graph”, “-ology”) to work out unfamiliar words.
  • Consult dictionaries and thesauruses (print or digital) for pronunciation, meaning, or part of speech.
  • Check a first guess at a word’s meaning against the context or a dictionary.
  • Learn and accurately use grade-appropriate academic and domain-specific vocabulary.

✍️Informative & Explanatory Writing

  • Write informative texts that examine a topic and convey ideas through well-chosen, organised content.
  • Introduce a topic clearly, preview what follows, and organise ideas (e.g., definition, comparison, cause and effect), using headings or graphics where helpful.
  • Develop a topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, and examples.
  • Use transitions to connect ideas and concepts.
  • Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary.
  • Establish and maintain a formal style.
  • Write a conclusion that follows from the information presented.
  • Conduct short research projects that draw on several sources and raise new questions.
  • Gather information from multiple sources, assess their credibility, and quote or paraphrase while avoiding plagiarism and citing correctly.
  • Analyse how an author structures a text and how the parts build the whole.

📚Literary Analysis & Author’s Craft

  • Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings, and analyse the effect of sound devices like alliteration.
  • Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character with a historical account of the same period.
  • Show understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and shades of meaning.
  • Interpret figures of speech in context (e.g., literary, biblical, and mythological allusions).
  • Use relationships between words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand them.
  • Distinguish the connotations of words with similar meanings (e.g., “refined”, “polite”, “condescending”).
  • Draw evidence from texts to support analysis, reflection, and research (e.g., Point-Evidence-Explain paragraphs).
  • Apply reading skills when analysing literature and non-fiction in writing (e.g., comparing fiction with history, or evaluating an argument).

🖋️Narrative & Voice

  • Write narratives that develop real or imagined experiences with effective technique, vivid detail, and clear event sequences.
  • Orient the reader by setting context and point of view, introducing a narrator or characters, and sequencing events naturally.
  • Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, pacing, and description to develop characters and events.
  • Use varied transitions to show sequence and shifts in time or setting.
  • Use precise words and sensory detail to capture action and “show, don’t tell”.
  • Write a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated events.
  • Produce clear, coherent writing with development, organisation, voice, and style suited to the task, purpose, and audience.
  • Analyse how elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes character or plot).
  • Analyse how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) shapes its meaning.
  • Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences for effect.

🔄Revision, Synthesis & Exhibition

  • Plan, revise, edit, and rewrite to strengthen writing, focusing on purpose and audience.
  • Analyse how two authors on the same topic shape their work by emphasising different evidence or interpretations.
  • Present claims and findings clearly and coherently with relevant facts and detail, good eye contact, volume, and pronunciation.
  • Include multimedia and visual displays in presentations to clarify and emphasise key points.
  • Adapt speech to different contexts and tasks, using formal English when appropriate.
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Computational Thinking

🎮Sprites, Animation & Game Design

  • Create a sprite and use dot notation to change its properties.
  • Animate a game with the given characters.
  • Understand what makes a game good, and what makes it not so great.

🔢Motion & the Counter Pattern

  • Use the counter pattern to repeatedly increment or decrement a sprite’s properties.
  • Simulate real-life motion with acceleration and deceleration using the counter pattern.

💥Conditionals & Collisions

  • Use the “isTouching” command to detect contact between two sprites and respond with conditionals.
  • Create conditionals for complex sprite movements like jumping.
  • Simulate real-world examples with complex sprite movements and collisions.

🧩Functions & Debugging

  • Explain the need for functions in a program, using parameters.
  • Use console.log() to track code and debug execution.

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