Seventh Grade

Seventh Grade Social Studies teachers focus 75% of their lessons on ancient civilizations of the Eastern Hemisphere. Approximately 25% of the time is spent on the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, including North, Central, and South America. Seventh grade is focused on human migration throughout the Eastern Hemisphere (approximately 2 million years BCE up to Age of Exploration (approximately 1500 CE.)

Common/Priority Standards

7.2 Compare and contrast early forms of government via the study of early civilizations.

7.4 Analyze the origins, and influence of historical documents (including but not limited to, Ten Commandments, Magna Carta, Hammurabi’s Code, Confucianism, Vedic Law Code) on the development of modern governments

7.5 Compare historical and contemporary means of changing societies and promoting the common good.

7.13 Construct and use maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases to make analytical inferences and predictions regarding geographic distributions.

7.14 Interpret maps and other geographic tools to find patterns in human and physical systems.

7.15 Explain how the physical and human characteristics of places and regions connect to human identities and cultures in the Eastern Hemisphere. (Geography)

7.21 Describe and compare the beliefs, the spread, and the influence of religions (monotheism and polytheism).

7.23 Examine the importance of trade routes and trace the rise of cultural centers.

7.24 Compare alternative ways that historical periods and eras are designated by identifying organizing principles in the Eastern Hemisphere (e.g. BC, BCE, AD, CE, decade, century, millennia).