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Engaging Children’s Faith: Bible Topics & Resources

All children need to be instructed in the Word of God. There is many different Bible Topics to choose from. Here are some resources to aid in teaching your children the Bible. If any link does not work, please let me know by leaving a comment and I will fix it as soon as possible. 

Dinosaurs – a topic that the world uses to lure are children away from the Church.

Apologetics

 

Comprehensive Guide to 7th Grade Science Topics

The 7th grade science student:

  • Continues exploring the skeletal and muscular systems, different types of viruses, bacteria, algae,
    and fungi.
  • Studies characteristics of
    • birds
    • mammals
    • botany – the needs, conducting, and reproductive
      systems of plants.
  • Learns about simple and complex invertebrate animals
  • the structure and characteristics of
    vertebrates, embryos, inherited traits, gene functions, and alterations
  • Studies ecology
    • balance and cycles of nature
    • biomes
    • effects of water and air pollution
    • how
      pollution can be controlled
  • Increases vocabulary with the introduction of new words
Resources: If any link does not work, please let me know by leaving a comment and I will fix it as soon as possible. 

Engaging 7th Grade Social Studies Topics

Seventh-grade social studies topics can vary greatly.

World history topics may include:

  • the Middle Ages
  • the Renaissance
  • the Roman Empire
  • European revolutions or
  • World War I and World War II.

American history may include:

  • the Industrial Revolution
  • the Scientific Revolution
  • the early 20th century including the 1920’s, 1930’s
  • the Great Depression
  • Civil Rights leaders.

Geography may include:

  • a detailed study of various regions or cultures, including the history, foods, customs, and religion of the area.
  • It may also focus on the geographic influences on significant historical events.
Resources: If any link does not work, please let me know by leaving a comment and I will fix it as soon as possible.

Essential Skills for 7th Grade Reading and Writing

7th Grade Reading and Writing Students will:

  • improve their reading skills by reading classic literature, including both poetry and novels.
  • develop in their speaking and vocabulary skills.
  • develop their writing skills.
Resources: If any link does not work, please let me know by leaving a comment and I will fix it as soon as possible. 

Mastering English: 7th Grade Language Arts Skills

The 7th grade English student:

  • Identifies, reviews, and diagrams simple, compound, and complex sentence patterns.
  • Reviews eight parts of speech and studies prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
  • Is introduced to infinitives and gerunds.
  • Reviews principal parts of regular and irregular verbs—perfect tenses; conjugation of all six tenses; progressive verb forms; transitive and intransitive verbs; and subject-verb agreement.
  • Increases noun study—exact, compound, collective, plural, and possessive.
  • Develops use of personal pronouns—nominative, objective, and possessive case, demonstrative, interrogative, relative, reflexive, and indefinite pronouns.
  • Applies adjectives as indefinite pronouns, nouns, participles, and predicate adjectives.
  • Develops writing and communication skills through use of sentence variety, outlining, paragraph writing, composition writing, and proofreading.
  • Works with paragraph structure—indenting, main idea, topic sentence, summary, dependent and independent clauses, and phrases.

Resources: If any link does not work, please let me know by leaving a comment and I will fix it as soon as possible.

 

Essential Math Skills for 7th Graders

The 7th grade math student:

  •  Reads, writes, and works with whole and mixed numbers, integers, and proper and improper fractions.
  • Learns the proper mathematical terminology—dividend, multiplicand, product, simplify, minuend, quotient, numerator, and denominator; changes fractions and decimals to percents; finds the number when a percent is known; finds the mean, mode, median, range, and rank; and interprets graphs, stem and leaf plots, and box and whisker plots.
  • Is introduced to business and consumer arithmetic—profit and loss, commission, discounts, bills and receipts, and invoices with discounts; ratios, proportions, and percents.
  • Reviews geometric concepts and finds perimeter, circumference, and surface area.
  • Learns Biblical principles of finance, budgeting, saving, investing, and bank services.
  • Reviews English and metric units of length, volume, weight, and temperature.
  • Reviews basic geometry concepts and symbols and uses a protractor and compass to find perimeter and area of shapes and solids.
  • Is introduced to equations—variable, sets, and set notation; vocabulary; symbols; and word problems

Resources: If any link does not work, please let me know by leaving a comment and I will fix it as soon as possible.