Seventh Grade
ELA
These weekly activities are guidelines. Please, work at your own pace and do the work that you feel most comfortable with.
Week 1:
Make sure you are reading every day 30-60 minutes. After reading, write a quick one paragraph summary of what you read. If you do not have access to a book, you can find free books on the public domain at the Gutenberg Project. https://www.gutenberg.org/.
2-3 times per week, find an article online about anything that interests you. Try to determine why the author wrote the article and write a one paragraph analysis. Good websites to find articles can be found on the resources page.
Weekly, write in a journal to document what is going on in your life, and how you are feeling and coping during this time of social distancing. This can be used in the future as a primary source when this phenomenon is taught as part of our history.
Week one activities include reading passages and answering multiple choice and short answer questions focused on central ideas. You can print off the weekly activities from the attached PDFs
Week 2:
Make sure you are reading every day 30-60 minutes. After reading, write a quick one
paragraph summary of what you read. If you do not have access to a book, you can find free books on the public domain at the Gutenberg Project. https://www.gutenberg.org/.
2-3 times per week, find an article online about anything that interests you. Try to determine why the author wrote the article and write a one paragraph analysis. Good websites to find articles can be found on the resources page.
Week two activities include reading passages and answering multiple choice and short answer questions focused on central ideas. You can print off the weekly activities from the attached PDFs.
Week 3: Make sure you are reading every day 30-60 minutes. After reading, write a quick one paragraph summary of what you read. If you do not have access to a book, you can find free books on the public domain at the Gutenberg Project. https://www.gutenberg.org/.
2-3 times per week, find an article online about anything that interests you. Try to determine why the author wrote the article and write a one paragraph analysis. Good websites to find articles can be found on the resources page.
Week three activities include reading passages and answering multiple choice and short answer questions focused on context clues. You can print off the weekly activities from the attached PDFs.
Resources Page:
Great place to find articles. Most 6th grade students should have a log in and password to access the quizzes and questions.
https://www.readworks.org/ Another resource for articles.
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html Here is the access code for Scholastic:
https://scope.scholastic.com/
Click on Student Login Access code: SLMS2020
Day-by-day cross curricular projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing: includes a free login for Book Flix & for Watch and Learn Library.
Timely articles with ideas for discussion http://www.kellygallagher.org/article-of-the-week
Do kids need ideas for their writer’s notebook? Take a tour of over 500 Art Galleries and Museums.
SLMS Math Department
7th Grade Materials
Mrs. Boylan Mrs. Sahadi Mr. Peddycord
Cboylan@solake.org Ksahadi@solake.org Epeddycord@solake.org
Week 1
7th Grade Math Classes:
During week 1, we’d like you to use Khan Academy to refresh yourselves on Negative Numbers: Addition and Subtraction
7th Grade Honors Math
Let’s review working with Negative Numbers on Khan Academy!
Week 2
7th Grade Math
During week 2, our refresher topic of choice via Khan Academy is Negative Numbers: Multipication and Division
7th Grade Honors Math
Now let’s take a look at Graphing & Solving Inequalities on Khan Academy!
Week 3
7th Grade Math
For week 3 we’d like the refresher to be on handling Converting Fractions to Decimals
7th Grade Honors Math
And finally, let’s review Ratios & Proportions on Khan Academy!
Continue to enjoy family time by cooking, baking, playing games, puzzles, etc.
Feel free to email us with any questions you may have.
Mrs. Minne
Week 1
This material on Nature Selecting Genes continues from our work on genetics. Please read the
Cartoon Survival of the Sneakiest and then Answer the questions at the end of the reading.
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/sneakermales_01
When it comes to crickets, what does fitness mean?
Is calling good or bad for a cricket's fitness?
Give some examples of genetics at work in this cricket story.
How can calling be good for some crickets? How can not calling be good for some crickets?
For more information: Interested in how genetics and the environment work together check out
the resources on this page. (articles, interactive games, video’s and more)..
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/resourcelibrary.php
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/search/students.php
Click on the pHet website below. Play the interactive game on how Bunnie Genes are Selected
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/natural-selection
Complete the worksheet below while working on the PHet simulation
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11D2S9efBug9Z6smLl2pB5dwRzLKptROv
Use the website below to review more on genetics, you will see Punnett Squares in action
https://youtu.be/Mehz7tCxjSE
Use the interactive website below to review more about the genetics, and read an interactive
story about the Peppered Moths. Read, play the game and answer the questions as you review
genetics.
Instructions:
a) Go to https://serpmedia.org/scigen/l4.2.html
b) Click on the Peppered Moth Picture under Set the context: and take 10 minutes to
describe the basic traits of the moth
c) Under the heading Share the interactive story of the peppered moth. Take (20 minutes
and Read the interactive story of the Peppered Moths using the interactive tools
provided.
d) Go to the heading, Wrap up: what happens when air quality improves? Take (20
minutes) to answer the fill in the blank questions.
Pdf version https://serpmedia.org/scigen/assets/l4.2_improving_air_moth.pdf
This other version of the Peppered Moth Story has more data analysis and questions sets and
includes another interactive simulation of the Peppered Moth Story.
https://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/pepperedmoth.html
Family Fun Great Site for Games/virtual tours/science activities
https://www.biomanbio.com/GamesandLabs/Genegames/genetics.html
https://mommypoppins.com/kids/50-easy-science-experiments-for-kids-fun-educational-activities
-using-household-stuff
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Week 1 |
Current Events Watch CNN10
You can view CNN10 as often as you’d like but please complete attached activity at least once a week.
If you are unable to open the worksheet please write a summary on a lined sheet of paper about 3 to 4 sentences long about that day’s events. |
Ancient River Valley Civilizations
Open the attached PDF Read handout 2 and fill out the chart comparing and contrasting the early river civilizations. You only need to print out hand out 2 and the chart.
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Game Day!
Review Unit 2 by playing the Quizizz game. Follow the directions below.
joinmyquiz.com and enter this code 644089
If you do not have computer access, see attachment labeled 7 History Unit 2 Review. |
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Week 2 |
Current Events Watch CNN10
You can view CNN10 as often as you’d like but please complete attached activity at least once a week.
If you are unable to open the worksheet please write a summary on a lined sheet of paper about 3 to 4 sentences long about that day’s events.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tejpJqeOqKE
Watch this video on the Nile River for kids.
On a lined sheet of paper tell me 5 things you learned about the Nile river and ancient Egypt.
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https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com
Go to this site and click on two topics on the right of the page And on your lined sheet of paper or notebook, name 5 interesting things you’ve learned about each topic. |
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Week 3 |
Current Events Watch CNN10
You can view CNN10 as often as you’d like but please complete attached activity at least once a week.
If you are unable to open the worksheet please write a summary on a lined sheet of paper about 3 to 4 sentences long about that day’s events.
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Attached you will find a document entitled Civilizations conflict and cooperation
Review materials and on a sheet of paper tell me why civilizations/empires would argue. Remember the youtube video about the office wars? |
Game Day!
Unit 3 Review
and enter this code 844401
If you do not have computer access, see attachment labeled 7 History Unit 3 Review.
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Extra Practice: BrainPop
If you are allowed, sign up for BrainPop. It is free for students learning from home. Request free family access.
- Click on Social Studies Tab
- Click on Ancient Cultures
- Choose 3 out of the 5 topics listed below (Yes you can do all 5 and more if you like!) Watch the video, take the quiz and try some of the activities offered.
- Agricultural Revolution
- Egyptian Pharoahs
- Mummies
- Sumerians
- Maya Civilization