What your child learns in Grade 7 in Ontario

Big Ideas

• B1 Number Sense: Demonstrate an understanding of numbers and make connections to the way numbers are used in everyday life
• B2 Operations: Use knowledge of numbers and operations to solve mathematical problems encountered in everyday life
• C1 Patterns and Relationships: Identify, describe, extend, create, and make predictions about a variety of patterns, including those found in real-life contexts

20 units, including big & rational numbers, factors & exponents, add & subtract integers, decimal operations.

Big Ideas

• A1 Transferable Skills: Demonstrate an understanding of how the seven transferable skills (critical thinking and problem solving; innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship; self-directed learning; collaboration; communication; global citizenship and sustainability; and digital literacy) are used in various language and literacy contexts
• A2 Digital Media Literacy: Demonstrate and apply the knowledge and skills needed to interact safely and responsibly in online environments, use digital and media tools to construct knowledge, and demonstrate learning as critical consumers and creators of media
• A3 Applications, Connections, and Contributions: Apply language and literacy skills in cross-curricular and integrated learning, and demonstrate an understanding of, and make connections to, diverse voices, experiences, perspectives, histories, and contributions, including those of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit individuals, communities, groups, and nations

13 units, including clauses & sentences, grammar gears, modifiers & parallelism, punctuation power.

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• A1 STEM Investigation and Communication Skills: Use a scientific research process, a scientific experimentation process, and an engineering design process to conduct investigations, following appropriate health and safety procedures
• A2 Coding and Emerging Technologies: Use coding in investigations and to model concepts, and assess the impact of coding and of emerging technologies on everyday life and in STEM-related fields
• A3 Applications, Connections, and Contributions: Demonstrate an understanding of the practical applications of science and technology, and of contributions to science and technology from people with diverse lived experiences

12 units, including ecosystems, food chains & energy, cycles & succession, people & ecosystems.

Big Ideas

• Geography A1 Application: Interrelationships between People and the Physical Environment: Analyse some challenges and opportunities presented by the physical environment and ways in which people have responded to them (FOCUS ON: Spatial Significance; Interrelationships)
• Geography A2 Inquiry: Investigating Physical Features and Processes: Use the geographic inquiry process to investigate the impact of natural events and/or human activities that change the physical environment, exploring the impact from a geographic perspective (FOCUS ON: Geographic Perspective)
• Geography A3 Understanding Geographic Context: Patterns in the Physical Environment: Demonstrate an understanding of significant patterns in Earth’s physical features and of some natural processes and human activities that create and change those features (FOCUS ON: Patterns and Trends; Spatial Significance)

10 units, including landforms & change, water & climate, plants, land & people, natural resources.

Big Ideas

• In immersion, French is the language we learn in, so listening and speaking grow every day.
• Reading French texts of many kinds builds comprehension and the habit of reading for meaning.
• Writing in French for a purpose and an audience uses the conventions of the language.

7 units, including le superlatif, choisir le bon temps, figures de style, la poésie.

Big Ideas

• Listening to French and responding to it builds understanding, one step at a time.
• Speaking and interacting in French uses familiar words and sentence patterns.
• Reading a range of French texts builds comprehension and an eye for how texts are put together.

8 units, including directions, places in town, comparing, describing people.