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Grade 7

• Language

  • 7.L.1
  • 7.L.1.a
  • 7.L.1.b
  • 7.L.1.c
  • 7.L.2
  • 7.L.3
  • 7.L.3.a
  • 7.L.4
  • 7.L.4.a
  • 7.L.4.b
  • 7.L.5
  • 7.L.5.a
  • 7.L.5.b
  • 7.L.5.c
  • 7.L.6

• Reading: Informational

  • 7.RI.1
  • 7.RI.2
  • 7.RI.3
  • 7.RI.4
  • 7.RI.5
  • 7.RI.6
  • 7.RI.7
  • 7.RI.8
  • 7.RI.9

• Reading: Literature

  • 7.RL.1
  • 7.RL.2
  • 7.RL.3
  • 7.RL.4
  • 7.RL.5
  • 7.RL.6
  • 7.RL.7
  • 7.RL.9
  • 7.RL.10

• Speaking & Listening

  • 7.SL.1
  • 7.SL.1.a
  • 7.SL.1.b
  • 7.SL.1.c
  • 7.SL.1.d
  • 7.SL.2
  • 7.SL.3
  • 7.SL.4
  • 7.SL.5
  • 7.SL.6

• Writing

  • 7.W.1
  • 7.W.1.a
  • 7.W.1.b
  • 7.W.1.d
  • 7.W.2
  • 7.W.2.a
  • 7.W.2.b
  • 7.W.2.d
  • 7.W.2.e
  • 7.W.3
  • 7.W.3.a
  • 7.W.3.b
  • 7.W.3.c
  • 7.W.3.d
  • 7.W.3.e
  • 7.W.4
  • 7.W.5
  • 7.W.6
  • 7.W.7
  • 7.W.8
  • 7.W.9
  • 7.W.9.b
  • 7.W.10

Arizona ELA Standard: 7.SL.2

Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, and orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.

What’s In My Brain: Ramp vs Bike

Two columns. One is an example, one isn’t. Can you figure out the hidden rule before the big reveal?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Fountain

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Dazzle

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Burton Island

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Tenzing

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Main Idea and Details

Young students can use this big idea organizer to identify the main idea and support it with details.

Gr 1-8

What’s In My Brain: Inventions vs Discovery

We’re looking at inventions vs discoveries.

Gr 1, 2, 8

What’s In My Brain: Lion vs Bear

We’re looking at carnivores vs omnivores.

Gr 1, 3, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Brooklyn

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

What’s In My Brain: Ball vs Book

Let’s look at Kinetic vs Potential Energy!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8

Van Gogh Self-Portrait Tournament

Who will win the tournament of Van Gogh self-portraits!?

Gr 1-8

What Happens In Your Brain When You’re Worried or Afraid

Allison Edwards explains how blood flow in your brain affects your decision-making

Gr 1-8

Slow Motion Popcorn

What surprises can you spot when a kernel pops in super slow-mo?

Gr 2-8

Notice, Wonder: Sombrero

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Silver Torch

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Rosetta

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

What’s In My Brain!? Japan vs Jamaica

Is it an island or an archipelago?

Gr 1, 3, 6, 8

What’s In My Brain!? Walnut vs Clouds

Let’s look at living vs non-living things.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8

Notice, Wonder: Critter

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: SLS Test

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Craters

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Skylight

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Krzywy Las

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Scales

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Witch’s Fingers

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Exploration Technology Tournament

Which of these pieces of exploration technology is most important? Most underrated? Most long-lasting?

Gr 1-8

Notice, Wonder: Green Circles

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: An Orange Thing

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Art Lesson: One-Point Perspective

Let’s give our students an art history lesson while teaching them how to enhance their drawings using one-point perspective.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Not Like The Others: Natural Disasters

Four natural disasters. One doesn’t belong. But which one? That depends on your argument.

Gr 1-8

Notice, Wonder: Kuiseb

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

How Renewable Is That Resource?

Which resource is more renewable? And which is easier to find?

Gr 3-7

Notice, Wonder: Forest

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Akron

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7

Notice Wonder: Turbine

Your students will be surprised by the size of this turbine… and by what’s hanging from it!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice Wonder: Z-Machine

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Climber

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: A River

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: The Cliff

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Michael

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Etna

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: Plateau

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Notice, Wonder: A Ship

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

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.

Gr 1-8

Improving Presentations 1: Watching The Greats

Get better at giving presentations by studying the greats!

Gr 2-8

Content Imperatives: Parallel

Get students thinking broadly by exploring similarities across multiple topics. Combine with Depth and Complexity for bonus points!

Gr 1-8

Persuasion and Packaging: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

How does a drink’s packaging affect us emotionally and logically?

Gr 4-8

Depth and Complexity: ❓ Unanswered Questions

This underutilized tool focuses students on what we don’t yet know and even what we can’t know.

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: ⏳ Change Over Time

Want to get students thinking about how a topic has changed or might change in the future? The ⏳ Change Over Time thinking tool is just what you need!

Gr 2-8

Characters’ Talents and Multiple Intelligences

How do characters from novels line up with Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8

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.

Gr 1-8

Reduce Anxiety: Change The Channel (Tool 2)

Reduce anxiety by learning to “change the channel.”

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Intellectual Intensity

Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?

Gr 3-8

Think Like An Economist

How would an economist read Goldilocks? How would they see a rainforest? How would they study the American Revolution?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Engineering: Build A Bridge

Using real bridges as their starting point, students will construct bridges out of straws and paperclips.

Gr 1-8

Add Layers To Direct Instruction

Take direction instruction beyond a monotonous practice of the same skill over and over.

Gr 1-8