Grade 7 Scope

How to read this scope

Each unit_id in the frontmatter resolves to a unit file under units/. start_day/end_day map the unit onto the 180-day school year; the list is a continuous sequence from day 1 to day 180 with no gaps or overlaps. domain and pillar name the primary domain(s) and pillar(s) each unit serves. domain_weighting expresses the intended balance of instructional time across the ten domains, in percent of the year. lesson_count counts the core lessons; the days between lessons carry flex time, assessment, integration, and celebration. assessment_plan describes how a learner’s growth is seen and recorded at this level.

Year at a glance

The Grade 7 year deepens what Grade 6 began, and it is the year nuance arrives — when the world stops being made of one thing at a time. Where Grade 6 found patterns in feeling and saw the self as made of many parts, Grade 7 holds contradiction and hears the reasons behind a rule. Abstract reasoning grows but still arrives unevenly in these years, named as normal, never as shame. Every claim is met with a concrete anchor.

The year opens inward. Feelings, Identity & Purpose (U.07.001, D01) teaches learners to name mixed feelings precisely, to see how cultural norms shape what may be shown, and to recognize the stereotypes that would narrow an identity. My Body, Movement & Wellness (U.07.002, D03) reads internal signals — hunger, fatigue, stress — adapts movement to a changing body, and refuses the idea that any body is a problem to be fixed. Relationships, Empathy & Conflict (U.07.003, D02) practices boundaries respected, repair after disagreement, empathy across difference, and why we help.

The heart of the year belongs to the two great tools of school, now working critically. Reading, Writing, Argument & Many Languages (U.07.004, D04) moves from making a claim to evaluating one: weighing a speaker’s reasoning, judging a source by its author, purpose, and evidence, and revising after peer feedback — with dialect and accent met as natural variation, never error, and home language first. Proportions, Rational Numbers, Equations & Chance (U.07.005, D05) carries algebra further: proportional relationships, scale, percentages, rational-number operations, two-step equations and inequalities, sampling and bias, and probability. Mathematics stays sense-making with real things, drawn from many traditions, for everyone.

From there the year looks out at the world through systems, weighing what a pattern shows against what it proves. Science: Systems, Evidence & Deep Time (U.07.006, D06) tells correlation from causation, weighs what evidence supports a claim, follows variation and natural selection, and reads deep time in fossils and ice cores — origins offered as models with evidence, never as creed. Making, Performing & Designing (U.07.007, D07) gives craft to the imagination: creating and revising, performing with attention to ensemble, and designing with accessibility in mind. Healthy, Safe & Strong: Puberty & Self-Care (U.07.008, D03) returns to the body at a turning point — media and body image, food marketing read critically, first aid, and boundaries for social media.

The final third steps into the wider human story with the historian’s and ethicist’s tools. Civilizations, Knowledge Systems & the Human Story (U.07.009, D08) weighs the many causes of one change, honors non-European achievement, and sets indigenous ecological knowledge beside formal science — colonization and forced migration told from many perspectives, never one people’s triumph. Ethics, Justice & Shared Power (U.07.010, D09) asks who is helped, who is harmed, and what is fair; examines human rights honored and violated; and practices restorative steps over punishment alone. Media, Technology & Our Earth Home (U.07.011, D10) traces how a technology spread and changed its adopters, tells misinformation from disinformation, follows the carbon through a forest, and sets individual beside collective action. The year closes in All of Me, All of Us (U.07.012, D01 + D02), gathering every whole person and the living Earth, looking ahead to Grade 8.

Throughout, the four pillars are interwoven. Intellectual awareness (P3) carries the most weight — argument and source evaluation, proportional and rational-number reasoning, and systems-and-evidence thinking in science are the year’s central work — but emotional and social awareness (P1) grows markedly, and a known, cared-for body-and-self remains the ground all formal learning stands on (P2). Contextual and ecological awareness (P4) keeps rising: history toward multiple causes and knowledge systems; civics toward real dilemmas and human rights; and media and ecology toward trustworthy sources, misinformation, and climate change. No high-stakes tests anywhere: growth is seen through argument and cited reading, number work with real things, and learners’ portfolios.