7th Grade
Five courses for a full 7th grade year, proportional reasoning in math, argument-driven ELA, life science from cells to ecosystems, world geography through the medieval world, and a health course written for actual middle schoolers. The year the questions get interesting.
Start 30 days freeFive days from the opening week of 7th grade, taken from the lessons themselves rather than written to sound good.
The week opens with a refresher your child has seen before: a car goes 120 miles in 3 hours, so 120 divided by 3 gives 40 miles an hour, shown both as a ratio table and a double number line before the unit pushes past whole-number rates.
ELA opens with a blank check, five minutes of framing and no new content, just a look at what your child already carries into argument writing from 6th grade, before the unit starts building claims most kids that age have never had to defend on paper.
Science opens with a question built to last the whole unit: why are all living things built from the same basic unit? That question is the entire first day, before cells get a single fact attached to them.
Social studies opens with geography that turns out to be the whole plot: Constantinople sitting exactly where two seas and two continents meet, read off one annotated map before the unit gets to why that location made an empire.
Health opens by defining what 'maintaining' a body even means, four areas, food, sleep, movement, hygiene, laid out as a simple diagram before any of the four gets its own lesson.
This is the year math stops being "follow the recipe" and starts being "here's the rule, and here's why it's true." Your kid will spend the fall pinning down what "proportional" really means and learning to compute with negative numbers, fractions, and decimals the same way. In winter they turn that into algebra — expressions and equations they can solve and explain. In spring they point all of it at geometry (scale drawings, angles, circles, 3D shapes) and finish with probability and sampling, which is really just ratios and rates wearing a different hat. By June they should be able to look at a table, a graph, or a word problem and immediately ask "is this proportional?" and "what's actually equal to what here?" — and answer both.
This is a full year of 7th grade English built around one question your child will keep answering in harder and harder situations: is this argument actually any good, and why? They start with short opinion pieces, move to a novel, then myths, poems, a play, and end the year writing their own research paper. The same four moves show up every single time — find the claim, check if the evidence actually backs it up, notice that other people see it differently and say why, and answer the other side instead of ignoring it. By June they should be able to pick up something they've never seen — a speech, a poem, a website — and do all four moves without being told to.
This is a year of biology built as one long chain, not eight separate topics. Your child starts by looking at real cells under a household microscope, then zooms out step by step: cells make organs, organs make body systems, cells run on the photosynthesis/respiration energy story, ecosystems run on that same energy story at a bigger scale, populations live inside ecosystems, heredity explains why individuals in a population differ, and natural selection explains how that variation changes a population over generations. By June they use all of it together to build an evidence argument for how two species are related. The payoff is that biology stops being a pile of vocabulary and starts being one story they can trace from a single cell to a whole ecosystem.
This is a year-long trip around the medieval world, region by region: the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic caliphates, West African trading kingdoms, China, Japan, the Maya and Aztec, and finally Europe from its post-Rome collapse into the early Renaissance. In every region your child asks the same three questions: who's in charge and why do people accept it, how do goods and ideas actually move from place to place, and how does what people believe organize daily life. They read real historical documents (translated, age-appropriate) and practice telling a reliable source from a shaky one. Religion shows up throughout, but it's treated the way a historian treats it — as a force that shapes law, trade, and power — not as something to believe in or reject personally.
This is a semester of health class built around one idea: the body is a system your kid runs every day, not a shape to judge. First it covers the daily basics — food, sleep, movement, cleanliness. Then it moves outward to protecting that body from fires, germs, traffic, and online strangers. Then it tackles nicotine and vaping head-on, using the biology from unit one to explain why those products hook people. It ends by pulling together the "who do I tell" and "how do I say no" skills from the earlier units into one flexible habit your kid can use for anything — a bad friendship, a stressful week, a stranger online, a family problem. By the end, the goal isn't that they memorized facts about health. It's that they have a couple of concrete routines (read a label, trace how germs spread, refuse pressure in four steps, name a trusted adult) they can actually run when it matters.
Every course above is published in full, every unit, every module, every objective, and you can try a real lesson without an account.
Yes, exactly as biologists understand it: natural selection and common descent, standards-aligned (NGSS), with no hedging. This is a Christian curriculum that teaches the sciences the way scientists teach them, including an earth that is billions of years old and species that share common ancestors, because many Christians read Genesis 1 as telling who made the world and why, not as a scientific report of how.
Nutrition, sleep, substances and addiction, decision-making, and mental well-being, at middle school depth. It contains no sexuality content; that domain is left entirely to families.