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7th grade · Social Studies · Unit 11 of 11

Science & the Enlightenment

New ideas about nature and government

What your child practices

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.

California Content Standards learning standard: 7.10.1; 7.10.2; 7.10.3; 7.11.4; 7.11.5; 7.11.6 · the roots and theories of the Scientific Revolution, the scientific method, and how Enlightenment ideas and the Magna Carta shaped democratic thought

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    The microscope helped scientists discover…

    • comets
    • continents
    • planets
    • cells and tiny living things

  2. Question 2

    Nicolaus Copernicus argued that…

    • Earth and the planets move around the Sun
    • the Sun moves around Earth
    • Earth is flat
    • stars are holes in the sky

  3. Question 3

    René Descartes is known for the phrase…

    • "I think, therefore I am"
    • "Veni, vidi, vici"
    • "E pluribus unum"
    • "Give me liberty"

  4. Question 4

    The Magna Carta (1215) limited the power of…

    • the pope
    • Parliament
    • the English king
    • the Roman emperor

  5. Question 5

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote about the social contract, the idea that…

    • people have no say
    • laws come from the stars
    • government rests on the will of the people
    • kings rule by birth only

  6. Question 6

    Enlightenment thinkers influenced which revolutions?

    • the American and French Revolutions
    • the Agricultural Revolution only
    • the Stone Age and Iron Age
    • the Gold Rush

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