🌎 7th grade Social Studies

Units

1. Unit 1

   🔭Science & the Enlightenment

   Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton, the scientific method, the roots of the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment thinkers whose ideas about rights and government shaped the American founding.

   Learning standard: 7.H1.2; 7.H3.1 · the Scientific Revolution and the ideas of the Enlightenment

2. Unit 2

   ⚙️Age of Revolutions

   The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, revolutions in England, America, France, Haiti and Latin America, the Industrial Revolution, and the end of slavery and serfdom.

   Learning standard: 7.C2.1; 7.H2.1 · how revolutions changed governments and citizens' rights

3. Unit 3

   🏭Industry & Empire

   The Industrial Revolution (steam power, factories, railroads, cities and labor unions) and the age of imperialism that followed: why industrial nations sought colonies, how empires divided Africa and Asia, how colonized peoples were harmed and resisted, and how many colonies won independence.

   Learning standard: 7.H1.2; 7.H3.2; 7.G3.1 · how technology changed the world, the causes and effects of imperialism, and how people and goods moved

4. Unit 4

   🪖World War I

   The causes of World War I (alliances, militarism, empires and nationalism), the war in Europe and the entry of the United States, life on the home front, and the war's results around the world.

   Learning standard: 7.H2.2; 7.SP4.1 · the causes and effects of conflict and peacemaking, and the multiple causes and effects of events

5. Unit 5

   ✈️World War II

   The road to World War II, the war in Europe and the Pacific, the Holocaust, the home front including the forced removal of Japanese Americans, and the war's results, including the United Nations.

   Learning standard: 7.H2.1; 7.H3.4 · how conflict can unite and divide nations, and the influence of individuals, groups and institutions on events

6. Unit 6

   🧊The Cold War

   The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union: communism and democracy, NATO, the arms and space races, conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

   Learning standard: 7.E5.2; 7.H3.1 · comparing economic systems, and the origins and spread of influential ideologies

7. Unit 7

   ✊Civil Rights

   The civil rights movement in the United States and how individual rights have grown: Brown v. Board of Education, the Montgomery bus boycott, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, and movements for the rights of women, farm workers and others.

   Learning standard: 7.H3.3; 7.C4.1 · how individual rights and freedoms have evolved, and means of changing society to promote the common good

8. Unit 8

   🌐The World Since 1945

   The world since 1945: the end of empires and new nations, the United Nations, human rights, globalization and shared challenges such as climate and migration.

   Learning standard: 7.H1.1; 7.C4.4 · the rise, decline and blending of cultures and societies, and addressing local, regional and global problems

9. Unit 9

   🧭Population & Migration

   Where people live and why: population growth, cities, push and pull factors of migration, refugees, and how moving people and cultures change places.

   Learning standard: 7.G4.3; 7.G3.4 · how population patterns change land use, and how population and movement can cause conflict or cooperation

10. Unit 10

    🚢Economies & Global Trade

    Command, market and mixed economies, supply, demand and prices, and global trade: exports, imports, tariffs and trade agreements.

    Learning standard: 7.E5.1; 7.E3.2 · trade and trade barriers among nations, and how supply, demand and competition influence prices