Seventh Grade Curriculum

PLATO Learning educational software, along with additional online software in Beyond Books and Glencoe Mathematics, provide the basis for our online curriculum. Offline projects developed by CDELA encourage students to synthesize concepts learned online. Lesson plans are provided to parents online to guide them through the curriculum.

To learn more about the PLATO Learning curriculum and to view a sample lesson of PLATO Projects for the Real World: Grades 4-8, click here.

Language Arts - Writing process; personal, descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive writing; grammar, usage, mechanics, vocabulary development; literature; reading comprehension

Mathematics - Arithmetic with whole numbers; place value; operations with fractions and decimals; U.S. Customary System; exponents, square roots, using geometric tools; ratios; probability; metric system; geometric solids, volume, and area; distributive property; solving one- and two-step equations; word problems

Social Studies - Tools of geography; map skills; geography of the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, Plains, Southwest, Mountain, and Pacific regions; national landmarks; federal, state, and local government; constitution and amendments; branches of government; political parties; civil rights; state notebook

Science - Science safety and skills; motion; energy; electricity; matter; atoms, chemical changes; cells and cell theory; mitosis; water; simple forms of life; human body; green plants; ecosystems; biomes; weather; changing Earth; astronomy

Electives - Foreign languages: Spanish, Health

Technology - Weekly activities using Internet Resources