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Grade 7

• Critical Literacy

  • 7.CL.1
  • 7.CL.2
  • 7.CL.3
  • 7.CL.4
  • 7.CL.5
  • 7.CL.6
  • 7.CL.7
  • 7.CL.7.a
  • 7.CL.7.b
  • 7.CL.7.c
  • 7.CL.8
  • 7.CL.9

• Digital Literacy

  • 7.DL.10
  • 7.DL.11
  • 7.DL.12
  • 7.DL.13
  • 7.DL.14
  • 7.DL.15
  • 7.DL.16

• Language Literacy

  • 7.LL.17
  • 7.LL.17.b
  • 7.LL.17.c
  • 7.LL.18
  • 7.LL.19
  • 7.LL.21
  • 7.LL.21.a
  • 7.LL.21.b
  • 7.LL.21.c
  • 7.LL.22

• Standards

  • 7.R1
  • 7.R2
  • 7.R3
  • 7.R4
  • 7.R5
  • 7.R6

• Research Literacy

  • 7.RL.23
  • 7.RL.26
  • 7.RL.27
  • 7.RL.28
  • 7.RL.28.a

• VL

  • 7.VL.29
  • 7.VL.30
  • 7.VL.32
  • 7.VL.33

Alabama ELA Standard: 7.DL.15

Utilize digital tools and/or products to enhance meaning.

Halloween Emoji Story 🌕

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Halloween Emoji Story 🕷️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Emoji Stories 🦁

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Emoji Stories 🏟️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Emoji Stories 👁️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Emoji Stories 🚗

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Emoji Stories 🤖

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Emoji Stories 🏰

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Emoji Stories 🛥️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

How to Reset Your Brain When You’re Flooded

Allison Edwards explains how changing your senses can reset your brain.

Squiggles Collection 3

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Squiggles Collection 1

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Squiggles Collection 2

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Random Emoji Prompt Generator

Click up an interesting, visual writing prompt suitable for any grade or purpose.

Back to School: Rewriting The Beatles’ “Help!”

Can your students come up with a one-syllable word to sum up their time away from school? And then rewrite The Beatles’ song Help!?

Parabolic Curve Art

Create mathematical art with curves that, well, aren’t curvy.

Create A Civilization: Design A Flag

What makes for a good flag? What makes a bad flag?

Looping Grid Art

Pick a few numbers, draw some corresponding lines on grid paper, and you’ll end up with some interesting, looping math-y art!

A Lunar Survival Mission

A favorite of mine! This task is delightfully complex and ambiguous, forcing students to make choices without enough information and with no right answer. How will they survive on the moon for three days?

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

Let’s get students’ art really popping with two-point perspective!

Self Portraits Part One: Line Drawings

Anyone, yes anyone, can create a (somewhat) realistic self-portrait using these steps. Anyone!

Student Introductions with Complexity and Frames

How have you changed over time? Students introduce themselves through the lens of change — and learn a Depth and Complexity tool in the process.

Synonym Graphs

So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?

Create A Civilization: Calendars

Why 12 months? Why 30ish days? Why 7 days in a week? Your civilization could organize a year in any way you want!

Improving Presentations 3: The Storyboard and Slides

It’s time to turn that outline into a storyboard and then some actual slides.

Introduce Symbolism with Pixel Art

Create a pixelated icon that represents the essence of a character!

Reduce Anxiety: Brain Plate (Tool 3)

When a student’s brain is full of worries, everything feels urgent. Brain Plate helps them sort what’s real from what’s noise — and actually do something about it.

Teaching Empathy With Faberge Eggs

The story of the Fabergé Eggs is heartbreaking. It’s also the perfect way to build empathy in your classroom.

Better Stories Part 1: The Big Idea

We open our unit on narrative writing with a big idea: “structure increases creativity.” I show how this is true by bringing in examples from across all disciplines.