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September
7th Grade (age 12)
20 days of lessons if complete 2 lessons per day.
Science
- Gardening
- water clock
- Endangered Species WDFW Lesson Packet (1 lesson)
- Endangered Species WDFW Lesson Packet (1 lesson)
- Generation Genius – How to be a Scientist (College and Careers)
- Survival Skills: The survival mindset – getting calm, staying calm, keeping a positive mental attitude, how to be safe anywhere
- Survival Skills: How to find and treat water for drinking (because you can only live 3 days max without it)
- Survival Skills: Dangerous animals: Identifying, avoiding, and defending against
- salt and density
- Make Soap
Math
- Variables and expressions – Parts of algebraic expressions
- Variables and expressions – Substitution and evaluating expressions
- Variables and expressions – Evaluating expressions with multiple variables
- Variables and expressions – Expression value intuition
- Variables and expressions – Evaluating expressions word problems
- Variables and expressions – Writing algebraic expressions introduction
- Variables and expressions – Writing basic algebraic expressions word problems
- Variables and expressions – Least common multiple
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
- Creation Crate
English
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 1
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 1
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 1
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 1
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 2
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 2
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 2
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 2
- Linocut Block Print
- Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) – Fix It! Grammar Level 4
Social Studies
- List 10 different types of community service that you could perform this year. Then, choose one that you would like to commit to doing and write about what you will do and why.
- Discussion: If money were of no concern, what career would you choose & why?
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 1
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 1
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 2
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 2
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 3
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 3
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 4
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 4
Books
- His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1) – Philip Pullman
- Flight for Freedom – Kristen Fulton
October
7th Grade (age 12)
20 days of lessons if complete 2 lessons per day.
Science
- Generation Genius – Properties of Elements
- Generation Genius – Chemical Reactions
- Make your own markers
- Generation Genius – Synthetic Materials
- Survival Skills: Situational awareness scenarios and preventative or problem-solving techniques. This will prevent 90% of potential problems and hazards.
- Survival Skills: How to start a fire with, or without, tools and with different materials (it’s not as easy as you might think)
- Survival Skills: Knife safety and knife sharpening
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
- Creation Crate
Math
- Generation Genius – Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple
- Variables and expressions – Greatest common factor
- Variables and expressions – Distributive property with variables
- Variables and expressions – Combining like terms
- Variables and expressions – Equivalent expressions
- Generation Genius – Solve Algebraic Equations (1-Step)
- Equations and inequalities – Algebraic equations basics
- Generation Genius – Find Solutions to Algebraic Inequalities
- Equations and inequalities – One-step equations intuition
- Equations and inequalities – One-step addition and subtraction equations
English
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 3
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 3
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 3
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 3
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 4
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 4
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 4
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 4
- Research/Outline Student-Chosen Research Paper
- Write/Edit Student-Chosen Research Paper
Social Studies
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 5
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 5
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 6
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 6
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 7
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 7
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 8
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 8
- Torn Paper Mountain Painting
- Discussion: If it was up to you, what one rule would you change in your family?
Books
- His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife (Book 2) – Philip Pullman
- The Wrong Way Home – Kate O’Shaughnessy
November
7th Grade (age 12)
20 days of lessons if complete 2 lessons per day.
Science
- design a pinball machine
- strength of stick bridges
- geodesic dome
- spherify beverages
- Generation Genius – Electricity and Circuits
- Generation Genius – Electric and Magnetic Fields
- Survival Skills: Important Survival Tools and Gear
- Survival Skills: Map Reading and Land Navigation
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
- Creation Crate
Math
- Equations and inequalities – One-step multiplication and division equations
- Equations and inequalities – Finding mistakes in one-step equations
- Equations and inequalities – One-step equation word problems
- Equations and inequalities – Intro to inequalities with variables
- Equations and inequalities – Dependent and independent variables
- Equations and inequalities – Analyzing relationships between variables
- Generation Genius – Use All 4 Quadrants of the Coordinate Plane
- Generation Genius – Area of Triangles and Quadrilaterals (Using Formulas)
- Plane figures – Areas of parallelograms
- Plane figures – Areas of triangles
English
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 5
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 5
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 5
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 5
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 6
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 6
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 6
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 6
- Outline/Write 5-Paragraph Essay: What does it mean to be a hero?
- Write/Edit 5-Paragraph Essay: What does it mean to be a hero?
Social Studies
- Since Time Immemorial – Washington State History-7th Grade – Unit 1A: Territory and Treaty Making: The Point No Point Treaty
- Since Time Immemorial – Washington State History-7th Grade – Unit 1B: The Walla Walla Treaty Council of 1855
- Outline/Write 5-Paragraph Essay: What discovery do you think has changed the world the most in your lifetime?
- Write/Edit 5-Paragraph Essay: What discovery do you think has changed the world the most in your lifetime?
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 9
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 9
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 10
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 10
- Write a Script and Make a Video
- Write a Script and Make a Video
Books
- His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass (Book 3) – Philip Pullman
- A Place to Hang the Moon – Kate Albus
December
7th Grade (age 12)
1 week of Winter Break between Christmas and New Year’s Day
16 days of lessons if complete 2 lessons per day.
Science
- greenhouse effect
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity (Khan Academy)
- Counting Birds for Science WDFW Lesson Packet (1 lesson)
- Counting Birds for Science WDFW Lesson Packet (1 lesson)
- Survival Skills: Knot tying and different uses of rope
- Survival Skills: How to build a shelter anywhere…out of practically anything (and why shelter is so important)
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
- Creation Crate
Math
- Plane figures – Areas of composite figures
- Coordinate plane – Four quadrants
- Coordinate plane – Distance on the coordinate plane
- Coordinate plane – Polygons on the coordinate plane
- Generation Genius – Area of Polygons (Using Decomposition)
- 3D figures – Geometric solids (3D shapes)
- 3D figures – Volume with mini cubes
- 3D figures – Volume with fractions
English
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 7
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 7
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 7
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 7
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 8
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 8
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 8
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 8
Social Studies
- Since Time Immemorial – Washington State History-7th Grade -Unit 1C: Medicine Creek Treaty of 1854
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 11
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 11
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 12
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 12
- Since Time Immemorial – Washington State History-7th Grade – Unit 2: New Technologies and Industries: Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s Effects on Indian Country
- Compare and contrast two historical events from the past. How were they alike? How were they different? Include their historical impacts.
- Art Kit from Let’s Make Art
Books
January
7th Grade (age 12)
20 days of lessons if complete 2 lessons per day.
Science
- DIY generator
- bubble life and temperature
- Generation Genius – Newton’s Laws of Motion
- laws of motion inertia fidget spinner
- hydraulic power
- balloon-powered car
- Survival Skills: Building a “Bug out Bag”
- Survival Skills: How to survive frigid temperatures (cold weather survival)
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
- Creation Crate
Math
- 3D figures – Nets of 3D figures
- Generation Genius – Surface Area Using Nets (Prisms and Pyramids)
- 3D figures – Surface area
- Data and statistics – Statistical questions
- Data and statistics – Data plots and frequency tables
- Generation Genius – Histograms and Box Plots
- Data and statistics – Histograms
- Generation Genius – Mean, Median, and Mode
- Data and statistics – Mean and median
- Data and statistics – Mean and median challenge problems
English
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 9
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 9
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 9
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 9
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 10
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 10
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 10
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 10
- Outline/Write: Write a narrative of experience or event (real or imagined) using descriptive details and structured sequence
- Write/Edit: Write a narrative of experience or event (real or imagined) using descriptive details and structured sequence
Social Studies
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 13
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 13
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 14
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 14
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 15
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 15
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 16
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 16
- Short Essay/Presentation: What parts of the world are crowded and which aren’t?
- Discussion: Is social media a good thing or not?
Books
February
7th Grade (age 12)
20 days of lessons if complete 2 lessons per day.
Science
- Innovations through Time: interactive virtual lab
- flying tea bags
- calories
- sugar and teeth
- Generation Genius – Comparative Anatomy
- Survival Skills: Finding and signaling for help
- Survival Skills: Staying home alone safety
- Survival Skills: How to stay safe while traveling
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
- Creation Crate
Math
- Data and statistics – Interquartile range (IQR)
- Data and statistics – Box plots
- Data and statistics – Mean absolute deviation (MAD)
- Data and statistics – Comparing data displays
- Data and statistics – Shape of data distributions
- Get ready for fractions, decimals, and percentages – Adding and subtracting decimals word problems
- Get ready for fractions, decimals, and percentages – Percent problems
- Get ready for fractions, decimals, and percentages – Percent word problems
- Get ready for rates and proportional relationships – Equivalent ratios
- Get ready for rates and proportional relationships – Ratio application
English
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 11
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 11
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 11
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 11
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 12
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 12
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 12
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 12
- Read a student-chosen book + (Outline/Write) Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text
- Read a student-chosen book + (Write/Edit) Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text
Social Studies
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 17
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 17
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 18
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 18
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 19
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 19
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 20
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 20
- Outline/Write 5-Paragraph Essay: Write about a local attraction in your community and what makes it unique.
- Write/Edit 5-Paragraph Essay: Write about a local attraction in your community and what makes it unique.
Books
March
7th Grade (age 12)
20 days of lessons if complete 2 lessons per day.
Science
- Inheritance and Variation (Khan Academy)
- bean taxonomy
- jelly bean genetics
- Human Evolution / Biological Anthropology Video
- Evolution (Khan Academy)
- Generation Genius – Natural Selection
- Generation Genius – Genes and Mutations
- Draw a Timeline of the Stages of Human Evolution with Defining Traits
- Blood Type Test Kit
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
Math
- Get ready for rates and proportional relationships – Intro to rates
- Get ready for rates and proportional relationships – Dependent and independent variables
- Get ready for rates and proportional relationships – Analyze relationships between variables
- Get ready for expressions, equations, and inequalities – Distributive property with variables
- Get ready for expressions, equations, and inequalities – Combining like terms
- Get ready for expressions, equations, and inequalities – Equivalent expressions
- Get ready for expressions, equations, and inequalities – One-step addition and subtraction equations
- Get ready for expressions, equations, and inequalities – One-step multiplication and division equations
- Get ready for expressions, equations, and inequalities – Finding mistakes in one-step equations
- Get ready for expressions, equations, and inequalities – One-step equation word problems
English
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 13
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 13
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 13
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 13
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 14
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 14
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 14
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 14
- Analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story
- Make a Venn diagram that compares and contrasts metaphors and similes. Write at least 3 sentences to summarize the diagram.
Social Studies
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 21
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 21
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 22
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 22
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 23
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 23
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 24
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 24
- Outline/Write 5-Paragraph Essay: Create a new holiday–explain the purpose, what makes it unique, how it’s celebrated.
- Write/Edit 5-Paragraph Essay: Create a new holiday–explain the purpose, what makes it unique, how it’s celebrated.
Books
April
7th Grade (age 12)
1 week of Spring Break for family vacation
16 days of lessons if complete 2 lessons per day.
Science
- charcoal water purifying
- Acids and Bases
- Make Soap
- does color affect memory
- Generation Genius – Human Impacts on the Environment
- Earth and Society / Humans and Sustainability (Khan Academy)
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
- Creation Crate
Math
- Get ready for expressions, equations, and inequalities – Intro to inequalities with variables
- Get ready for geometry – Decomposing angles
- Get ready for geometry – Area of parallelograms and triangles
- Get ready for geometry – Area of composite figures
- Get ready for geometry – Volume with fractions
- Get ready for geometry – Nets of 3D figures
- Get ready for geometry – Surface area
- Get ready for statistics and probabilities – Statistical questions
English
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 15
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 15
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 15
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 15
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 16
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 16
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 16
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 16
Social Studies
- Since Time Immemorial – Washington State History-7th Grade – Unit 3: Contemporary Washington State – The Boldt Decision: 40 Years Later (Boldt I & II)
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 25
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 25
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 26
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 26
- Survival Skills: What to do if you think someone is following you
- Survival Skills: How to quickly stop an attacker that is trying to kidnap you
- Survival Skills: How to escape zip ties/duct tape
Books
May
7th Grade (age 12)
20 days of lessons if complete 2 lessons per day.
Science
- Orcas and Salmon WDFW Lesson Packet (1 lesson)
- Orcas and Salmon WDFW Lesson Packet (1 lesson)
- DIY lip balm recipes
- Generation Genius – Classification of Living Things
- Survival Skills: How to find food in the forest, the desert, a city, a rural area, the dump, or the ocean! (edible plants, berries, animals)
- Survival Skills: Fishing for survival
- Survival Skills: What to do during a natural disaster (earthquake, tornado, hurricane, power outage, flood, etc.)
- Survival Skills: Lost at sea (ocean survival)
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
- Creation Crate
Math
- Get ready for statistics and probabilities – Shape of data distributions
- Generation Genius – Add and Subtract with Negative Numbers
- Negative numbers: addition and subtraction – Intro to adding negative numbers
- Negative numbers: addition and subtraction – Intro to subtracting negative numbers
- Negative numbers: addition and subtraction – Adding and subtracting with negatives on the number line
- Negative numbers: addition and subtraction – Adding and subtracting integers
- Negative numbers: addition and subtraction – Adding and subtracting negative fractions
- Negative numbers: addition and subtraction – Addition and subtraction word problems with negatives
- Negative numbers: addition and subtraction – Absolute value
- Negative numbers: addition and subtraction – Properties of addition and subtraction
English
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 17
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 17
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 17
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 17
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 18
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 18
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 18
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 18
- Outline/Write 5-Paragraph Essay: How do you define success?
- Write/Edit 5-Paragraph Essay: How do you define success?
Social Studies
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 27
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 27
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 28
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 28
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 29
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 29
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 30
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 30
- Discussion: How does your attitude affect your abilities?
- Economics: Analyzes examples of how groups and individuals consider profit and personal values in making economic choices in U.S. history.
Books
June
7th Grade (age 12)
20 days of lessons if complete 2 lessons per day.
Science
- Gardening
- Plate Tectonics – Plate Boundaries, Continental Drift, Pangaea + research distribution of continents based on rocks, fossils
- MS-ESS2-6 Climate Project – Ocean Currents & Global Winds
- Generation Genius – Water Cycle (6-8 Version)
- Generation Genius – Predicting Natural Disasters
- Geologic Time Scale Activity
- How the Strength of a Magnet Varies with Temperature
- Sun Print Art
- Survival Skills: First Aid and basic life support
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
Math
- Negative numbers: addition and subtraction – Adding and subtracting negative numbers: variables
- Generation Genius – Multiply and Divide with Negative Numbers
- Negative numbers: multiplication and division – Multiply and divide negative numbers
- Negative numbers: multiplication and division – Multiplication and division word problems with negatives
- Negative numbers: multiplication and division – Understanding multiplying and dividing fractions
- Negative numbers: multiplication and division – Multiply and divide negative fractions
- Negative numbers: multiplication and division – Order of operations
- Negative numbers: multiplication and division – Properties of multiplication and division
- Generation Genius – Dividing Fractions by Fractions
- Generation Genius – Standard Algorithm with Decimals (All 4 Operations)
English
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 19
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 19
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 19
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 19
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 20
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 20
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 20
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 20
- Outline/Write 7-Paragraph Essay: What are your favorite and least favorite qualities about yourself? Why? How can you try to improve?
- Outline/Write 7-Paragraph Essay: What are your favorite and least favorite qualities about yourself? Why? How can you try to improve?
Social Studies
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 31
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 31
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 32
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 32
- Survival Skills: Self Defense
- Survival Skills: How to escape the trunk of a car
- Survival Skills: How to find your way home no matter where you are.
- Survival Skills: Long term survival in a “total collapse” scenario
- Short Essay/Presentation: Who has oil, diamonds, gold, or uranium?
- Short Essay/Presentation: Where do we get bananas, pineapples, oranges or dates?
Books
July
7th Grade (age 12)
1 week of Summer Break for annual family camping trip
16 days of lessons if complete 2 lessons per day.
Science
- Survival Skills: Knot tying and different uses of rope
- Survival Skills: How to build a shelter anywhere…out of practically anything (and why shelter is so important)
- Survival Skills: Building an EDC or (Every Day Carry) bag
- Gardening
- Building Project
- Building Project
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
- Creation Crate
Math
- Fractions, decimals, and percentages – Converting fractions to decimals
- Fractions, decimals, and percentages – Adding and subtracting rational numbers
- Fractions, decimals, and percentages – Percent word problems
- Fractions, decimals, and percentages – Rational number word problems
- Generation Genius – Proportional Relationships
- Rates and proportional relationships – Rate problems with fractions
- Rates and proportional relationships – Constant of proportionality
- Rates and proportional relationships – Compare and intercept constants of proportionality
English
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 21
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 21
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 21
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 21
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 22
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 22
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 22
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 22
Social Studies
- Short Essay/Presentation: Why are some places more technologically advanced?
- Discussion: Which is more important, ending world hunger or global warming?
- Geography: Understands and analyzes migration as a catalyst on the growth of the United States.
- Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 33
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 33
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 34
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 34
Books
August
7th Grade (age 12)
Parents take 7-day solo trip! Kids attend overnight summer camp or stay with grandparents
16 days of lessons if complete 2 lessons per day.
Science
- Generation Genius – Digital vs. Analog Signals
- Survival Skills: How to survive in extreme heat (such as a desert setting)
- Gardening
- Gardening
- Building Project
- Building Project
- CodaKid: fun coding and game design for kids
- Creation Crate
Math
- Rates and proportional relationships – Identifying proportional relationships
- Rates and proportional relationships – Graphs of proportional relationships
- Rates and proportional relationships – Writing and solving proportions
- Rates and proportional relationships – Equations of proportional relationships
- Generation Genius – Solve Algebraic Equations (2-Step)
- Expressions, equations, and inequalities – Combining like terms
- Expressions, equations, and inequalities – The distributive property and equivalent expressions
- Expressions, equations, and inequalities – Interpreting linear expressions
English
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 23
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 23
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 23
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 23
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 24
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 24
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 24
- IEW Year 2 (Level B) – Week 24
Social Studies
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 35
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 35
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 36
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3 – Chapter 36
- Outline 5-Paragraph Essay: Write about a person you admire. How can you emulate him or her?
- Write 5-Paragraph Essay: Write about a person you admire. How can you emulate him or her?
- Edit/Revise: Write about a person you admire. How can you emulate him or her?
- Short Essay/Presentation: What knowledge did space travel add to our knowledge of our planet?
Books
Field Trip Ideas for 7th Grade
- 6-mile hike + get food at a new restaurant
- Indoor skydiving
- Bowling Alley
- Concert
- Water treatment plant
- Go-Karts
- Bird watching
- Wildlife refuge or nature center
- Geocaching
- Archaeology site
- Fossil dig site
- Snowboarding/Skiing
- Visit a local historical site or museum
- Visit a “medieval village” experience
- Visit a National Park
- Visit a National Monument
- Visit a space museum
- Whale Watching
- Go magnet fishing
- Build a shelter in the woods using only a tarp and rope
- Treasure hunt (compass and map reading)
- Making fire with matches and fire (Ferro) rods + Campfire and S’mores (Fire building)
- Building and finding primitive shelters
- Water Purification / Wild Hot Chocolate
- Forest Feast (Identifying and harvesting wild edible plants)
- U-pick blueberry patch
- Shellfish foraging
- Planetarium/Observatory
- Rockhounding
- Visit a local geological feature
- Go to the beach and fly kites
- U-pick apple orchard + make applesauce at home
- Mushroom foraging in the forest
- Visit a local river or hatchery to see spawning salmon
- Bike ride
- Go fishing with parent(s)
- Visit a u-cut Christmas tree farm
- Camping trip
- Visit a bakery
Daily Rhythm (Schedule) for Homeschooling 7th Grade
| Time | Kid | Mom |
|---|---|---|
| 6:00 AM | Yoga, Exercise, Shower, Free Time | |
| 7:00 AM | Work | |
| 8:00 AM | Wake-up, DIY Breakfast | Work |
| 8:30 AM | Spanish Lesson: Rosetta Stone | Work |
| 8:45 AM | Typing Practice: typedojo.com | Work |
| 9:00 AM | Project or Interest Based Learning | Work |
| 9:45 AM | Yoga, Exercise, Affirmations | Yoga, Exercise, Affirmations |
| 10:00 AM | Independent Reading, Snack | Reading |
| 10:15 AM | Learning Block 1 (harder/longer lesson) | Homeschool |
| 11:00 AM | Music Jam Session | Homeschool |
| 11:15 AM | Lunch | Lunch |
| 11:45 AM | Learning Block 2 (online lesson, Independently) | Work |
| 12:30 PM | Workbooks | Quick Clean |
| 12:45 PM | Independent Reading | Reading |
| 1:00 PM | Chore of the Day | Laundry |
| 1:15 PM | Free Time | Work |
| 2:45 PM | Go for a walk together | Go for a walk together |
| 3:30 PM | Extracurriculars/Free Time | Work |
| 5:30 PM | Dinner | Dinner |
| 6:30 PM | Play with Dad | Free Time |
| 8:30 PM | Bedtime Routine with Mom/Dad | Bedtime Routine with Kid |
| 9:00 PM | Parent Time |
7th Grade Homeschool Curriculum and Subscriptions
- Curiosity Chronicles Modern History 3
- Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) – Structure and Style for Students: Year 2 (Level B)
- Khan Academy Math (free)
- Foreign Language Lessons from Rosetta Stone
- Creation Crate
- Typing practice from typedojo.com (free)
- Generation Genius Math and Science
- CodaKid – Online Coding and Game Design for Kids
Workbooks for 7th Grade
- Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide
- Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide
- Everything You Need to Ace Science in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide
- Everything You Need to Ace American History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide
- The Big Fat Middle School Math Workbook
- Summer Bridge Activities 7-8 Workbook
- Huge Coloring Poster
Project Based Learning Ideas for 7th Grade
Interest, or project, based learning lets kids learn by exploring topics they’re passionate about. For example, a child interested in the topic of volcanoes might research active volcanoes, might learn how to create a working volcano model and then execute the experiment, might play a board game, might make a presentation about how volcanoes work. They often cover multiple subjects (e.g. reading, writing, research, history, science, math, and critical thinking) all while learning through curiosity. This website has some great examples of how a few topics could make an excellent interest-led learning projects (with an in-depth example for gardening). Projects can be anything your child would like to explore more in depth and are geared towards encouraging life-long learning by using the idea that we learn more when we’re interested in the topic.
Here are some ideas that could be incorporated into the topic of interest your child picks or could act as starting points as projects for kids who are struggling with ideas of where to start with an interest:
- art exhibition
- build something
- Create a YouTube channel or a YouTube video tutorial
- Build a website
- design and create a game
- write a book
- Plant a garden – learn about seed growth, pollination, soil composition, fertilization, history of agriculture, crop rotation, read about gardening, craft a report on a specific plant, count seeds, graph germination results, plan out square foot garden, measure daily plant growth, learn scientific names or foreign names for plants, make crafts from the garden, eat a meal from the garden, learn about entrepreneurship, do color scavenger hunts
- prepare a treasure hunt
- make a costume
- set up the Christmas tree
- crochet/knit a scarf or hat
- make a model of the solar system
- make a model anatomy of some animal
- make a model ecosystem
- make a model of parts of a plant
- choreograph a dance
- master a survival skill
- make a calendar
- prepare a meal/learn new cooking method
- design and build an obstacle course
- make your own Mad Libs
- write and perform a song for remembering some learning
- write and illustrate a comic book
- create a field guide
- research a fishery/fish species/fishing method and go fishing to catch that species or use that method
- write a biography of a famous/influential person from history
- learn origami
- write a book of poetry
- write a book of haiku poems
- learn calligraphy
- photography project
- write to your Congressman or Congresswoman
- create a magazine
- Write trivia (Kahoot is a great online trivia game program)
- write a newsletter
- Create a piece of artwork that illustrates the project topic
- Design a t-shirt and list it online for sale
- Make charts and graphs (to illustrate survey results for example)
- Create an interactive family tree with voice-overs from living family
- Using the best thinking of major world civilizations, design the perfect civilization. Identify critical characteristics, resources, and habits, etc.
- Identify, analyze, and visualize recurring themes in human history; then contextualize those themes in modern society.
- Re-imagine the American Constitution–or similar governing documents–as if they were designed today.
- Study local land regions and resources to identify a geological-based response to the Zombie Apocalypse.
- Report or model on what happened to the dinosaurs
- Write and perform an original song
- Write a script and make a video (tutorial, vlog, fiction, etc.)
- Map making with QGIS
- Publish a hiking guide book
- Design a book cover
- Bonsai
- Design a scientific research project and then collect, analyze, and present data
- Create a budget to reach a financial goal
- Public speaking skills
- Teach the dog a new task/trick/command
- Create a stock photography portfolio and submit to major websites
- Plan an event (party, gathering, adventure, etc.)
- Create trading cards for learning history
- Explore pointillism (painting or drawing)
- Create your own illustrations for popular poems
- The Hero’s Journey lesson + book analysis
- Inform with infographics lesson and then create your own: research information already available or collect first-hand data on a topic (natural world or social scientific data), create charts/graphs, analyze the data/information, and create an infographic to display to display your findings.
