7th Grade Lessons
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7th Grade Arts Lesson Plans
Dance Your Heart Out
This activity will allow students to demonstrate choreography skills, dance skills, and creativity in small groups.
Fairy Tale Fun
In this performing arts lesson, students will rewrite a well-known fairy tale to include a great deal of dialogue and then act out that fairy tale (creation of props is optional as is taping the performance).
Flash Mob Fun
In this performing arts lesson, students will work together with a purpose to create and choreograph a dance for a flash mob to make an announcement for the school.
Kwanzaa Art
Students will discuss the 7 principals of Kwanzaa and then draw pictures of an example of each.
Mini Diorama
This visual arts lesson will allow students to share some personal interests in the form of a diorama. Sample rubric included.
Musical Masterpiece
In this visual arts lesson, learners will express emotion through painting, as elicited by music.
Painter's Tape Art
This lesson will allow students to practice creating art by marking off what will not be painted. This requires planning prior to mixing the first color.
Paper Mache Zoo
In this visual arts lesson, students will create zoo animals (or any animals) using paper mache. The ‘zoo’ can be displayed in the classroom or in a localized area of the school.
Upside Down Art
This lesson will allow students to practice creating art from a unique perspective while learning about Michelangelo.
Video Diary
In this performing arts lesson, students will work to create a short video diary to showcase the import parts of their life and edit the video into a 5 minute or less montage using EZVid or similar program.
7th Grade English/Language Arts Lesson Plans
Analogy Creation
Students will create analogies using randomly chosen grade-appropriate words.
Controversial Environmental Issues
Students will research and debate multiple topics in the topic of environmental health. The class will take sides on whether they are for or against the controversial issue.
De and Con Notations
Students work collaboratively to create the denotations and connotations of words.
Debate an Environmental Issue
Students will read an article about the sale of tropical fish. Students will analyze the information given and discuss their opinion based on facts from the article.
Nothing but the Truth
This lesson will allow students to practice reading out loud and determining how point of view affects the action of a story.
Present Perfect Tense
Students will be able to explain clearly the rules on the present perfect tense of verbs as differentiated from the simple present and past tenses.
Reducing Every Day Plastic Use
Students will research and write a persuasive essay about the effects of plastic in every day use. They will be encouraged to send these letters to officials who could make a difference.
The Classroom Lottery
Based on the short story, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, the students will be participate in a similar mock classroom drama using a different scenario for the “choosing”, while writing answers to thought-provoking questions.
What Year Did That Happen?
Students will practice rewriting and summarizing paragraphs, paraphrasing the information, facts, and other details in a writing sample.
7th Grade Environmental Lesson Plans
Biosphere
This lesson will allow students to create a self sustaining biosphere.
Controversial Environmental Issues
Students will research and debate multiple topics in the topic of environmental health. The class will take sides on whether they are for or against the controversial issue.
Debate an Environmental Issue
Students will read an article about the sale of tropical fish. Students will analyze the information given and discuss their opinion based on facts from the article.
Earth Window Art
This lesson will allow students to create a replica of the Earth that can also be used as decoration.
Fish or Famine?
Students will understand food scarcity and unequal distribution through a simple, yet concrete demonstration.
Help a Cause
Students will use recycled materials to create toys for a local shelter.
7th Grade Math Lesson Plans
Box Geometry
Students will learn about using the formulas for the area of squares, rectangles, and triangles to determine how much paint and carpet to purchase for a room. In addition, they will learn about scale measurements.
Graph Smile
Pairs of students will survey other students in the school and then graph the results, as well as come to conclusions based on the information.
Ice Cream Cones, Baseballs, and Cans
Students will work in pairs to practice finding the volume of cones, cylinders, and spheres using everyday objects.
Interest-ing Math
Students will learn about simple interest and how to calculate the real cost of a loan, credit card, and other types of borrowing.
Numbers By The Book
This lesson will allow students to show a relationship between numbers and a visual representation in a manner that can be used for younger students.
Order in the Math Class
The students will physically review the order of operations.
Prices and Percentages
Using a current list of prices for food and clothing, the students will practice math skills related to percentages.
Silent Geometry
The students will practice using geometry formulas measuring items in the classroom to find area and volume, radius and circumference, and identify the types of angles.
Take a Vacation
The students will plan a vacation for themselves, group of friends, or family, considering the costs involved.
7th Grade P.E. Lesson Plans
Music Movement
The students will move to the music based on its beat, words, tune, and other variables.
PE Immigration
The students will research games and activities from other countries to share during a PE class.
Trust Me
This lesson will allow students to practice teamwork and trust building, as well as working on directionality for younger students.
7th Grade Science Lesson Plans
Controversial Environmental Issues
Students will research and debate multiple topics in the topic of environmental health. The class will take sides on whether they are for or against the controversial issue.
Creature Connection
The student will research three living creatures, write a short report for each, and discover the ecological connections between each.
Debate an Environmental Issue
Students will read an article about the sale of tropical fish. Students will analyze the information given and discuss their opinion based on facts from the article.
Fish or Famine?
Students will understand food scarcity and unequal distribution through a simple, yet concrete demonstration.
Glad Scientists
A pair of students will research a specific scientist from the past and present information to the class and carry out one of his/her experiments.
Reducing Every Day Plastic Use
Students will research and write a persuasive essay about the effects of plastic in every day use. They will be encouraged to send these letters to officials who could make a difference.
Toothpick Structures
The students will create a structure which can hold as much as possible using only toothpicks and glue.
7th Grade Social Studies Lesson Plans
A City Saved by a Volcano
Students will learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy preserved two Roman towns.
A Return to Ancient Rome
Students will research and create a brief power point program about a landmark of Ancient Rome.
Exploring the West
The lesson will teach the students why there was an expansion to what is now the western half of the United States, as well as the displacement of Native Americans.
Follow the Direction
Students choose or be assigned a notable person from the past, research and find quotes or speeches written by that person and role play the person in the classroom, reading some of the speech, and/or the quotes, allowing other students to guess who it is.
Help a Cause
Students will use recycled materials to create toys for a local shelter.
History of Hanukkah
Students will read a passage about the history of Hanukkah and “talk to the text” to understand the story better. Students will answer questions individually and then with a partner to understand the text better.
It’s a Wonder – Filled World
Students will learn about the list of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World compiled by the ancient Greeks.
Kwanzaa Socratic Seminar
Students will discuss the cultural roots of Kwanzaa and analyze why the holiday has been brought to the United States.
President vs. President
Each student will research a past deceased president, review their life, speeches, quotes, term in office, etc., and use it to run for President versus another past President.
Presidential Politics
Students will research a past president’s opinions, promises and goals discussed prior to their election and compare/contrast them during their years in office.
The Articles of Confederation
The students will research the “first rules” of the United States, the Articles of Confederation.
What Year Did That Happen?
Students will research several historic events in history concentrating on the years they occurred and attempt to create pneumonic devices to help match the correct year to the event.