7th Grade Outcomes

• Lands and peoples of the Eastern Hemisphere

• Prehistoric peoples

• Greek, Roman, and Middle Eastern civilizations

• The Middle Ages

• Renaissance and Reformation

• Scientific Revolution

• Age of Reason (Enlightenment)

• Industrial Age

• Yesterday and today around the world Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific

• World trade and resources

• Contemporary problems and issues

• Environment

• World geography

• Advanced map and globe skills

• Scientific classification

• The cell

• Heredity and genetics

• Effects of weather and climate

• Properties and uses of water

• Atmosphere

• Air pressure

• Rocks, soil, and minerals

• Ecology and environment

• Conservation

• Heat and temperature

• Laws of motion

• Energy

• Scientific method

• Laboratory techniques and safety

          • Improving reading skills

• Literary terms

• Novels, short stories, plays

• Myths, legends, ballads

• Types of poetry

• Biography and autobiography

• Planning and producing dramatizations

• Speech activities

• Listening skills

• Refining dictionary skills

• Spelling

• Parts of speech

• Person, number, gender of nouns and pronouns

• Punctuation of conversation

• Clauses and phrases

• Compound sentences

• Writing descriptions, reports, journals, and letters

• Note taking and outlining

• Extending reference skills: atlases, directories, encyclopedias, periodicals, on-line information services, CD-ROMs, and other electronic reference material

• Library organization

• Good grooming and posture

• Dental health

• Healthy habits and lifestyles

• Exercise and fitness

• Effects of stimulants am! narcotics

• Functions of the body

• Circulation and respiration

• Germ theory

• Sexually transmitted diseases

• Family life

• Toxins and antitoxins

• Antibiotics

• Immunization

• Chemotherapy

• Genetic disorders

• Personal and public safety

• Accident prevention

• Personality development

• Substance abuse

• Prime and composite numbers

• Square root

• Order of operations

• Absolute value

• Inequalities

• Numeration

• Properties of nonnegative Integers

• Rational numbers and fractions

• Ratio, proportion, percent

• Finite, infinite, and empty sets

• Basic geometry concepts and terms

• Development and use of formulas

• Perimeter, circumference, area

• Metric and customary measurement

• Reading and constructing graphs

• Measures of central tendency: mean, mode, median, range

• Elementary business mathematics

• Use of calculators and computers