Homeschool 7th Grade
Ages 12–13
Grade 7 is one idea wearing many costumes: proportionality. Scale drawings, percent change, similar figures, unit rates and probability are all the same reasoning.
Plan this yearEverything 7th Grade covers
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📖 Reading
Author's purpose and how a text is built
Identifies whether a text informs, persuades or entertains, and how its structure serves that purpose.
Comparing how different media tell the same story
Compares an article, a video and a social post on one event and analyses what each format changes.
Analysing longer texts and sustained argument
Follows a theme or argument across a whole book or long article and traces its development.
✏️ Writing
Arguing from credible sources
Builds an argument on evidence from sources they've evaluated, and explains why each source is trustworthy.
Citing properly and writing in your own voice
Quotes, paraphrases and cites correctly, and knows exactly where the line is.
Precision — saying exactly what you mean
Chooses precise words, cuts filler, and varies sentence structure deliberately.
🔢 Math
Proportional relationships and the constant of proportionality
Recognises proportionality in tables, graphs and equations, and identifies k in y = kx.
Percent in the real world — tax, tip, interest, markup
Solves multi-step percent problems including successive changes and finding the original amount.
All four operations with negatives, fractions and decimals
Adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides any rational number confidently, including mixed forms.
Multi-step equations and inequalities
Solves equations with brackets and variables on both sides, and inequalities including the flip rule.
Scale drawings and similar figures
Uses a scale factor to convert between drawing and reality, and knows what happens to area.
Circles — circumference, area and where pi comes from
Uses the circumference and area formulas correctly and knows which is which.
Surface area and volume of solids
Finds surface area and volume of prisms, cylinders and composite solids.
Probability, sampling and why one survey isn't enough
Calculates simple and compound probabilities, and understands why sample size and selection matter.
🔬 Science
Atoms, molecules and chemical reactions
Explains that reactions rearrange atoms rather than creating or destroying them, and identifies evidence of a reaction.
Heredity, genes and natural selection
Explains how traits are inherited and how selection changes a population over generations.
Human impact on ecosystems and resources
Evaluates evidence about a human impact and proposes a solution with real trade-offs.
🌍 Social Studies
Trade, empires and the exchange of ideas
Explains how trade networks moved goods, ideas and disease, and how that reshaped societies.
Supply, demand and why prices move
Explains how supply and demand set prices, and predicts the effect of a shock.
🧭 Study & Life Skills
Beating procrastination with structure, not willpower
Starts unpleasant work by shrinking the first step and using timed blocks.
Digital footprint and being decent online
Thinks about permanence and audience before posting, and knows how to respond to conflict online.
See what 7th Grade actually looks like
Not a description of the year — the real thing. Below is a real week from the plan and two real lessons opened up, with every worksheet, game and off-screen task they point at. Everything is a live link.
Mon
Day 41
- Morning warm-up
- Reading: What is this text for?
- Math: Predict the sign first
- Writing: Rank four sources
- Brain break
- Science: Sealed bag, same mass
- Life Skills: Name the first physical action
- Follow one trade good
Tue
Day 42
- Morning warm-up
- Reading: Why open like that?
- Math: Subtracting a negative
- Writing: Name the source in the sentence
- Brain break
- Science: Evidence of a reaction
- Social Studies: Follow one trade good
- Twenty-five minute block
Wed
Day 43
- Morning warm-up
- Reading: Reorder the article
- Math: Negatives with fractions
- Writing: Acknowledge the limits
- Brain break
- Science: Balance an equation
- Social Studies: What travelled besides goods?
- Twenty-five minute block
Thu
Day 44
- Morning warm-up
- Reading: Sponsored content
- Math: Fifteen mixed problems
- Writing: Who gains if you believe it?
- Brain break
- Science: Explain conservation of mass
- Life Skills: Twenty-five minute block
- Who paid for the trade?
Fri
Day 45
- Morning warm-up
- Reading: Purpose, structure, effect
- Math: Order of operations with negatives
- Writing: A full evidenced argument
- Brain break
- Science: Chemical Reaction
- Social Studies: Who paid for the trade?
- What did the blocks change?
Generated by the same code that runs a real school day. A child at a different level in a subject gets that subject’s lessons instead — nothing else about the day changes.
Two real lessons, start to finish
📚 Reading · 26 min
Author's purpose and how a text is built — practice 13
Why this matters · 1 min
The same flood is a news report, a charity appeal and a council minutes entry. Three texts, one event, and almost nothing in common.
Learn it · 4 min
A text's purpose is the change it wants to produce in you — to inform, to persuade, to instruct, to entertain — and its structure is the order chosen to produce it. The two are not separable: a persuasive text buries its concession in the middle because that is where resistance is lowest, and an instructional text refuses to do that because a step in the wrong place breaks the task. So structure is evidence of purpose. When you cannot tell what a text wants, look at what it puts first, what it delays, and what it repeats.
See it done · 3 min
Writing ResponseShow what they know · 5 min
Vocabulary Word Search
🔢 Math · 46 min
Divide y by x every row
Why this matters · 1 min
Four rows, four divisions. If they disagree, it is not proportional.
Learn it · 4 min
Dividing y by x in every row is the definition applied, and doing every row rather than one is what makes it a test. A single quotient tells you nothing, because any single pair has some ratio; the claim is that the ratio is constant, and constancy needs at least three points to be evidence. Where the quotients drift in one direction the relationship is usually linear with an offset.
See it done · 3 min
Inventor Studio MazePlay it · 8 min
Proportion ShowdownAway from the screen · 12 min
Build a table from a real pay rate and divide y by x in every row. The constant is k.
Divide y by x every rowShow what they know · 5 min
Geometry Hunt
Steps with nothing behind them are left out rather than stubbed. A “coming soon” tile in a paid homeschool product is worse than a shorter lesson.
How much of it there is
| Subject | Units | Lessons |
|---|---|---|
| 📚 Reading | 12 | 144 |
| ✏️ Writing | 8 | 75 |
| 🔢 Math | 9 | 89 |
| 🔬 Science | 6 | 48 |
| 🌍 Social Studies | 4 | 26 |
| 🧭 Life Skills | 2 | 24 |
| Total | 41 | 406 |
Counted from the plan itself. Subjects with fewer lessons have less material in the catalogue at this grade — we would rather show you that than pad the number.
What you will have in June
- Attendance — days and instructional hours, derived from work actually finished.
- Report cards — one a quarter, with the level each strand started and ended at.
- A portfolio — finished work, collected as it happens rather than assembled in a panic.
- A reading log — in the app and off it.
We keep records. We do not give legal advice and we never certify compliance — check with your state’s department of education.
When to ask for help
- Sign errors with negatives persist all year and undermine every other topic.
- Cannot solve a multi-step equation reliably by June.
- Reads assigned texts but cannot analyse purpose or evaluate a source.
- Written work is still unstructured, or leans on copied and unattributed material.
- Persistent avoidance of homework combined with low mood — treat as wellbeing first, academics second.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many hours a day is 7th Grade homeschool?
We default to three hours a day across 180 school days, and you can set it anywhere from one to five. At this age Thirty to forty minutes, mostly independent. Ask them to teach you one thing each session — it's the fastest way to find out what they don't actually understand.
What if my child is ahead or behind in one subject?
Each of the six strands has its own level. A child can do this grade in reading and the one below in maths without any of it being a workaround — that is the normal case here, not an exception.
What records will I have at the end of 7th Grade?
Attendance in days and instructional hours, a report card per quarter, a portfolio of finished work, and a reading log. From Grade 9 there is also a parent-issued transcript with credits and GPA.