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Grade 7

• Language

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

• Reading: Informational

  • 7.RI.1
  • 7.RI.2
  • 7.RI.4
  • 7.RI.5
  • 7.RI.6
  • 7.RI.9
  • 7.RI.10

• Reading: Literature

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

• Speaking & Listening

  • 7.SL.1.a
  • 7.SL.1
  • 7.SL.1.b
  • 7.SL.1.c
  • 7.SL.2
  • 7.SL.4
  • 7.SL.6

• Writing

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

CCSS ELA Standard: 7.RI.7

Compare and contrast a text to an audio, video, or multimedia version of the text, analyzing each medium’s portrayal of the subject (e.g., how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words).

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 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Grass vs Mold

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

Gr 2-8

Power Can Be Fast, Slow, Loud, or Quiet

Power may seem loud and fast, but it can also be slow and quiet.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Inventions vs Discovery

We’re looking at inventions vs discoveries.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Paperclip vs Straw

We’re looking at magnetic vs. non-magnetic materials.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Lion vs Bear

We’re looking at carnivores vs omnivores.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Guinea Pig vs Potbelly

What do guinea pigs, shooting stars, and seahorses have in common? They’re all misnomers!

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Spain vs Germany

One column is an example. The other isn’t. Can your students figure out the hidden rule before the reveal?

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Pentagon vs Pentagon

We’re looking at regular vs irregular polygons.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Austin vs Los Angeles

We’re looking at capital cities.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Italy vs Normandy

We’re looking at countries vs states (and other smaller regions).

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Coral vs Water Lilies

Let’s look at saltwater vs freshwater organisms.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Tree vs Tree

Let’s look at deciduous vs coniferous trees.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Ball vs Book

Let’s look at Kinetic vs Potential Energy!

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Crocodile vs Tree Frog

Is it a reptile or an amphibian?

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Narwhal vs Penguin

We’re looking at the arctic vs the antarctic.

Gr 2-8

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 2-8

Compare and Create New Year’s Traditions

Hey! Our New Year traditions have a lot in common.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain!? Japan vs Jamaica

Is it an island or an archipelago?

Gr 2-8

Famous Structures

The Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House — group them, pick the best from each group, then design your own.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain!? Gold vs Wood

Some of these examples are conductors and some are insulators!

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain!? Walnut vs Clouds

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

Gr 2-8

Concept Attainment: Hornet vs Tiger

Can your class spot the vertebrates vs invertebrates?

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Owl vs Eagle

Some of these animals are nocturnal and some are diurnal.

Gr 2-8

Concept Attainment: Art

Can your students tell the difference between cubism and abstract art?

Gr 2-8

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 1-8

What’s In My Brain: May vs May

The word “may” can be used for possibility or permission. It’s a modal auxiliary verb!

Gr 2-8

How Renewable Is That Resource?

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

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Trapezoids or Not?

Which are trapezoids and which are not?

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Painting vs Painting

Two columns of sentences. Something is different about them. Can you figure out the rule?

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Cute Baby vs Fast Cheetah

Can students spot similes vs metaphors?

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain – Independent vs Dependent

These clauses are sorted into two groups. What’s the rule? No definitions given — just examples.

Gr 2-8

Simple or Compound Sentences – What’s In My Brain?

Can your students spot simple sentences vs compound sentences?

Gr 2-8

Run On or Not? – What’s In My Brain

Can your students spot the run-on sentences?

Gr 2-8

Complex or Compound – What’s In My Brain

Can your class spot the complex sentences vs compound sentences?

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Progressive vs Simple Tenses

Will your students notice progressive tense vs simple tense?

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain – The Park vs The Museum

We’re looking at the past progressive tense and the simple past tense.

Gr 2-8

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!

Gr 2-8

Create A Civilization: The River

The Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Seine, the Thames, and now… your river!

Gr 2-8

Create A Civilization Introduction

Your students build a civilization from scratch — rivers, flags, calendars, currency, government. Social studies, science, and writing woven into one year-long project.

Gr 2-8

Reduce Anxiety: Change The Channel (Tool 2)

Reduce anxiety by learning to “change the channel.”

Gr 6-8

Add Layers To Direct Instruction

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

Gr 1-8