7th Grade Homeschool Curriculum

7th Grade History

Because of Sonlight's unique focus on history, you'll first choose which history program you want to choose and then build the rest of your 7th grade from there.

This year you can choose to study:

American History: get introduced to the "go-getters" that explored, expanded, and brought people together to create a country unlike anything seen before in the "old world" of Europe. You can either study American History from the Civil War forward, or, do a single year full American History overview.

Eastern Hemisphere: while exploring Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the South Pacific, you'll see where a huge percentage of the world's population, and ninety percent of all unevangelized people, call home. A stand out program from Sonlight, this is year to study a part of the world that likely looks very different from your home.

Ancient History: examine the connected flow of human history, from creation through the 1600s; the 1600s to the present, or, a combined year from creation to the present around the world.

Sonlight's 7th grade is an opportunity to help your children understand the world today by seeing how we got to where we are. It will help them understand their own and other's cultures by seeing the connections between civilizations around the world and throughout time.

7th Grade Lesson Plans

Your Sonlight Instructor's Guide (IG) provides your daily, book-by-book, and subject-by-subject 7th Grade schedule. This is much more than a calendar: it's everything you need to be able to confidently teach your children. Behind each week's scheduled lesson plan you will find notes, maps, activity sheets, and teaching tips to bring depth and insight into your studies. Your Instructor's Guide takes the stack of books and materials in each subject and makes it a curriculum. IGs are included with your History / Bible / Literature or All-Subjects Package, as well as Sonlight's Science and Language Arts programs.

Use them for record keeping, a daily schedule, notes, or any combination of the three. Using our Instructor's Guides you'll see just how easy it is to teach your children.

7th Grade Language Arts

Well-rounded writers require a blend of grammar, mechanics, and creative instruction. Sonlight's 7th grade program provides each. From haiku to the research paper, from gerunds to participles, from writing a superb literary hook to avoiding fragments, your students will gain the tools they need to become more effective communicators.

Sonlight links Language Arts instruction and assignments to the History / Bible / Literature program at this level, so every assignment reinforces what your students are learning.

All of your seventh grade Language Arts assignments are laid out in our Language Arts Instructor's Guide.

If your children would benefit from another level, check out all of Sonlight's Language Arts options here.

7th Grade Science

In Science G, your children will take time to explore earth science, evolution and intelligent design, and chemistry. Included experiments cover practical chemistry and deepen the experience for your children.

In the Icons of Evolution DVD, you will go on a fast-paced journey into emerging scientific debate over Darwin's theory. The DVD presents both sides of the discussion, but emphasizes the faulty foundation of Darwin's examples from nature. An engaging book with amazing visuals by Dr. Carl Werner introduces students to a discussion on the philosophy of science -- particularly as it relates to the ongoing debate between evolutionists and creationists.

Starting in 7th grade, Sonlight also offers Apologia science as an option. This year we schedule Apologia's General Science (the new 3^rd edition), which provides a wonderful overview of the entire range of scientific inquiry.

This course is designed for use by homeschoolers and includes topics like a brief history of science; the scientific method; how to interpret experiments; the distinction between science, applied science, and much more. It is written with the interests and concerns of evangelical Christians at the center.

Easy to read with a personal tone, this program includes hands-on experiments, student exercises, photos, illustrations, tests, and detailed solutions.

Both programs include the unique items that you need to perform the experiments.

While it's easy to just match your level of science to the history program you are doing, you also have choices here. You are free to match a range of children up and do one level together or go back to study something you might have missed. This is a fascinating subject to learn about every day from your couch and kitchen.

Choose either Sonlight’s Science G – Geology, Physics, and Origins, or the Apologia General Science, or browse other available Science programs to find the best program for your family this year. It's often easiest to match your history and science together, but you can mix and match and still get our best discount of 20%.

7th Grade Math

This year, Sonlight includes Math-U-See's Pre-Algebra in our 7th Grade All-Subject package. Pre-Algebra covers things like negative numbers, order of operations, solving for the unknown, and other topics. Your student will learn how to add, subtract, multiply and divide with negative numbers. They will also learn about whole numbers; integers, the number line, exponents, and place value.

While Math-U-See is included in Sonlight's All-Subjects Package, if you are interested in another program, you can easily trade in a different math program and still receive our best 20% discount. Learn about all of your 7th Grade Math options here.