Grade 7 Units

Explore Grade 7 unit plans in Science, Social Studies, Math, and Language Arts with standards-aligned lessons that support engaging, rigorous instruction.

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Grade 7 Science Units

Unit Plan 11 (Grade 7 Science): Biotic Interactions

Grade 7 unit where students predict ecosystem patterns—predator–prey cycles, competition, and mutualism—to explain how interactions shape populations and community balance.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade 7 Science): Ecosystems Basics

Grade 7 unit where students analyze data to explain how limited resources like food or water drive population growth, decline, and competition in ecosystems.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade 7 Science): Cells & Systems — Quarter Synthesis

Grade 7 unit connecting cells, systems, growth, genes, and energy—students model how matter and energy flow through organisms and design solutions to support system health.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade 7 Science): Energy in Organisms

Grade 7 life science unit where students model how food molecules are rearranged through chemical reactions to release energy and support growth in organisms.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade 7 Science): Genes, Environment & Growth

Grade 7 life science unit where students use data and models to explain how genetic and environmental factors influence organism growth and variation.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade 7 Science): Growth & Cell Division

Grade 7 unit where students use data and models to show organisms grow through cell division, constructing evidence-based arguments aligned to MS-LS1-4.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade 7 Science): Human Body Systems

Grade 7 unit modeling how digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems interact to move food and oxygen, showing the body as cell-based interconnected subsystems.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade 7 Science): Specialized Cells & Tissues

Grade 7 unit where students explore how specialized cells form tissues, organs, and interacting body systems using models, diagrams, and CER for evidence.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade 7 Science): Cell Structure & Function

Grade 7 unit modeling plant and animal cell organelles as a system, showing how each part contributes to cell function through diagrams, analogies, and models.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade 7 Science): What Is a Cell?

Grade 7 unit using microscopes, observations, models, and CER to show unicellular and multicellular organisms are made of cells, the basic unit of life.

Grade 7 Science Units

Unit Plan 1 (Grade 7 Science): Science Skills & Inquiry Routines

Launch Grade 7 science with lab safety, careful observation, modeling, and CER to build skills for cell investigations and engineering design all year.

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Grade 7 Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade 7 Social Studies): Cumulative Synthesis & Exhibition

Showcase your mastery at the Global Fair with trade-route maps, Enlightenment posters, and inquiry essays that connect geography, economy, and civic ideals—highlighting how ideas, goods, and power shaped our interconnected world.

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Grade 7 Social Studies Units

Unit Plan 35 (Grade 7 Social Studies): Debating Empire and Exchange

Hold a formal academic debate on whether exploration brought more benefits or harms, using trade-network evidence and multiple sources to weigh interdependence, impacts, and propose an informed, actionable conclusion.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade 7 Social Studies): Global Citizenship and Power Today

Connect historic civic ideals—justice, rule of law, liberty, equality—to modern global issues and human rights as students engage in evidence-based discourse, compare systems, and design feasible informed actions for change.

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade 7 Social Studies): Resistance and Cultural Blending

Explore how enslaved and colonized peoples preserved identity through resistance, adaptation, and cultural blending—creating new languages, religions, arts, and traditions that reshaped global culture under empire.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade 7 Social Studies): Economic Systems and Interdependence

Compare mercantilism, capitalism, and early market economies—examining scarcity, opportunity cost, and exchange systems—to understand how trade, credit, and innovation built global interdependence and economic change.

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Unit Plan 31 (Grade 7 Social Studies): Global Empires and Colonization

Analyze European expansion from 1500–1700—comparing colonial rule, trade networks, and global interdependence—to uncover how empires, economies, and cultures transformed through exchange, labor, and conflict.

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Unit Plan 30 (Grade 7 Social Studies): Indigenous Civilizations of the Americas

Explore how geography shaped Aztec, Maya, and Inca civilizations—their governments, economies, and cultures—and analyze how each adapted, allied, or resisted during European contact through diverse historical sources.

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Unit Plan 29 (Grade 7 Social Studies): The Columbian Exchange

Evaluate how the Columbian Exchange reshaped global ecology and economy—tracing the movement of crops, animals, pathogens, and people that transformed environments, labor systems, and interdependent markets after 1492.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade 7 Social Studies): The Age of Exploration

Map major explorers’ routes and uncover how motives, technologies, and encounters reshaped global trade, environments, and societies—revealing the lasting consequences of early modern exploration across continents.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade 7 Social Studies): Midyear Project—Ideas That Changed the World

Create a digital exhibit tracing how one transformative idea—law, liberty, science, or art—evolved across regions and centuries, showing its causes, continuities, and global impact on justice, rights, and human progress.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade 7 Social Studies): Civic Ideals Across Civilizations

Compare how Confucian, Islamic, and Enlightenment traditions define justice, equality, and authority—revealing shared ideals and tensions that shaped global understandings of legitimacy, power, and the common good across history.

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Unit Plan 25 (Grade 7 Social Studies): The Enlightenment—Ideas of Liberty and Law

Study how Enlightenment thinkers like Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Beccaria transformed ideas about natural rights, consent, separation of powers, toleration, and the rule of law—reshaping politics and inspiring revolutions worldwide.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade 7 Social Studies): Scientific Revolution—Observation and Reason

Explore how observation, experimentation, and reasoning ignited the Scientific Revolution—transforming astronomy, physics, and medicine while reshaping ideas about truth, authority, and civic life in early modern Europe.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade 7 Social Studies): African Kingdoms of Trade and Power

Explore how West and East African kingdoms like Ghana, Mali, Songhai, and the Swahili city-states rose through trade, resources, and leadership—revealing how geography, power, and culture shaped everyday life across Africa.