What's Happening in the Seventh Grade?

Math

Mathematics

September

Unit 1: Scale Drawings
In this unit, students explore how to make and interpret scale drawings, such as maps and floor plans. They will learn how shapes change in size but keep their proportions, use scale factors to create scaled copies, and understand how distances and areas adjust when scaling. By the end, students will be able to apply these ideas to real-world situations, like drawing a room or building to scale.

Resources available in the beyond the classroom section.

Focus:

Students will be focusing on the routines of our 7th grade math classroom and developing techniques to be successful using our new resource called ALEKS.

Reminders:

Fall STAR Test September 10th

Additional Reminders:

Continue Practicing Basic Facts - (Multiplication 0 thru 12)

Working on operations with fractions

Beyond the Classroom: Math

Geography

Welcome to 7th Grade World Geography!

It's hard to believe that we've been in school for a month! In this short amount of time a lot of learning has already occurred and students are settling into the routines of 7th grade.

Our second unit will be focusing on the Earth's physical geography with emphasis on weather, climate, and geology. We will be exploring the relationship between a location's latitude and its climate as well as plate tectonics and all the fun that comes from that (volcanoes, earthquakes and more)!

Essential Question for our Physical Geography unit: Why do we study Earth and its physical systems?

As always, please reach out via email if you have any questions or concerns. I look forward to meeting many of you at our parent/teacher conferences on Oct 7 & 9!

Outside Activities:

Looking for something to do outside of class? Students have a number of activities on Schoology that focus on our social studies vocabulary and work on their map skills. Students also have the Seterra App on their iPads that has a bunch of different interactive map games and activities they can work on too. You can also watch/read the news with your student and discuss things that are going on in the world.

Beyond the Classroom: Social Studies