Grade 7 Worksheets

Learning Objectives

• Explain how imperial rivalries in the 1700s shaped land control and settlement in eastern North America.
• Describe causes and consequences of military contests and treaties, including population movements and changes to frontier stability.
• Analyze continuity and change in colonial governance as British power expanded after 1763.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain how different community helpers contribute to well-being and social harmony
• Practice gratitude by connecting community helpers to family, school, and local support
• Use reading comprehension to identify key ideas about cooperation and kindness+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Understand how Earth's orbit and tilt affect seasons
• Identify patterns of daylight variation throughout the year
• Explain how Earth's position relative to the sun influences climate and timekeeping

Learning Objectives

• Understand the basic differences between elements and compounds
• Identify features such as atomic composition, bonding, and properties
• Learn examples of elements and compounds and their characteristics+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Identify and describe ecological levels of organization from individuals to ecosystems
• Explain how higher-level patterns (population, community, ecosystem) can’t be predicted from individual traits alone
• Use examples (such as trout in Alberta waters) to distinguish levels by their properties and processes

Learning Objectives

• Define physical and chemical properties and explain how they help classify substances.
• Identify elements, compounds, and mixtures using measurable properties such as density, solubility, hardness, conductivity, magnetism, and flammability.
• Use observable evidence from property tests to justify classifications.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the defining properties of pure substances such as fixed melting and boiling points, density, and reactivity.
• Distinguish between elements and compounds using physical and chemical tests.
• Identify examples of pure substances, including local minerals and common compounds.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain how tectonic uplift, volcanic construction, and surface processes work together to shape landscapes over time
• Compare how uplift rates versus erosion rates affect whether topography rises or is worn down
• Describe how climate influences weathering and transport efficiency, changing sediment supply to basins+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Understand how to define design problems with clear criteria and constraints.
• Identify measurable performance metrics and limits for proposed solutions.
• Translate societal and environmental needs into quantitative targets.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain why energy decreases at each trophic level in a food web
• Describe how energy limits affect food-chain length and biomass
• Use trophic level vocabulary to classify producers, consumers, and energy flow

Learning Objectives

• Identify which parts of a text are relevant evidence for a claim about character choices, relationships, or author purpose.
• Interpret evidence by connecting quoted details to meaning in context, including prior events and immediate wording.
• Weigh multiple pieces of evidence by relevance and significance to support a text-based interpretation.

Learning Objectives

• Identify claims and determine which specific details from a text serve as evidence.
• Explain how evidence supports an interpretation of theme or meaning using logical reasoning.
• Use quotation or close paraphrase techniques to strengthen evidence-based analysis.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how inherited differences and recombination create variation within populations
• Describe how scientists measure variation by examining trait frequency across many individuals
• Connect changes in trait frequency to environmental pressures over generations

Learning Objectives

• Identify independent, dependent, and controlled variables in a scientific investigation
• Understand the role of variables in determining experimental outcomes
• Differentiate between types of variables through examples

Learning Objectives

• Explain how models use abstraction and assumptions to represent real-world systems.
• Identify key parameters, units, and variables used in simple numerical models.
• Describe how scientists validate models using empirical observations and evaluate when predictions are reliable.

Learning Objectives

• Distinguish between balanced and unbalanced forces using the idea of net force
• Predict how an object’s motion (speed and/or direction) changes when forces are balanced versus unbalanced
• Connect real-life examples, such as tug-of-war, to acceleration and constant velocity

Learning Objectives

• Understand the process of mountain formation through tectonic plate movements.
• Identify key features of orogeny, including crustal deformation and uplift.
• Explain how surface processes shape mountain landscapes over time.

Learning Objectives

• Describe how exponential and logistic population models differ and what each implies about resource limits and carrying capacity.
• Explain how density-dependent and density-independent factors affect population growth rates over time.
• Use population models to interpret patterns in real ecosystems and make simple predictions.

Learning Objectives

• Understand how groundwater is stored and moves beneath Earth's surface.
• Identify factors affecting groundwater recharge and discharge.
• Explain the impacts of groundwater decline on surface water systems and water quality.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Identify biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems and describe how each affects living things
• Distinguish producers, consumers, and decomposers and explain their roles in energy flow
• Use simple food chains (pond and forest examples) to describe how matter cycles through an ecosystem+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Understand the concept of measurable design requirements
• Identify the importance of clear criteria and constraints in problem-solving
• Recognize trade-offs in the design process+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain the difference between design criteria for success and constraints (such as time, materials, cost, and safety).
• Identify measurable or observable design criteria in a real-world engineering scenario.
• Analyze trade-offs between requirements and explain what counts as improvement based on evidence.

Learning Objectives

• Create a media message by aligning content to a clear purpose and specific audience.
• Establish a consistent perspective and select credible supporting details.
• Use media design choices (layout, visuals, audio, and formatting) to strengthen clarity and meaning.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how Memorial Day developed from local customs into a national observance.
• Analyze primary-source ideas (speeches, writings, community records) to understand multiple community reasons for honoring the fallen.
• Use evidence from historical texts to support claims about cultural memory and traditions.

Learning Objectives

• Define text evidence and explain why it strengthens a claim about a text.
• Identify and use specific details (words, phrases, or events) from a passage to support an interpretation.
• Connect evidence to reasoning by explaining how the detail proves the claim.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain how allele frequencies change over time using simple quantitative models.
• Use probability and basic population-genetics ideas to interpret patterns of inheritance and selection.
• Analyze fitness differences with graphs or frequency tables to predict population responses.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Understand the relative sizes of planets and the distances between them.
• Learn how astronomical units, light-years, and planetary diameters are used to express scale.
• Interpret scaled diagrams and logarithmic representations of celestial distances.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Develop a focused research question and select relevant sources to answer it.
• Summarize and synthesize information by connecting details back to the research question.
• Organize research writing with clear headings and logical transitions to support comprehension.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain how feudal relationships connected lords and vassals through land and military service
• Describe how manorialism organized rural life for peasants and supported a self-sufficient economy
• Analyze how hierarchy affected political and economic roles in medieval Europe

Learning Objectives

• Understand how rainfall and water flow influence Earth's surface
• Identify how water can cause erosion and shape landforms
• Recognize the role of storms, earthquakes, and volcanic activity in surface changes+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain how population growth can affect resource use and the environment.
• Use data from charts to identify possible relationships between population trends and sustainability efforts.
• Propose solutions that balance human needs with environmental health and equitable resource distribution.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how gravitational force affects weight and motion near Earth
• Use the relationship between force and acceleration to compare objects with different masses
• Describe how support forces (normal forces) balance gravity when objects are at rest

Learning Objectives

• Understand how to interpret distance–time graphs
• Identify the meaning of slope in kinematic graphs
• Learn how to extract average and instantaneous speed from graphs+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Define resource tradeoffs and their importance in human decision-making.
• Identify various factors that influence resource management.
• Analyze the consequences of different choices on ecosystems and communities.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Determine how connotation affects a word’s meaning in context
• Explain how word choice shapes tone, mood, and an author’s stance
• Choose the meaning that best supports a text’s intent and overall theme

Learning Objectives

• Identify whether a phrase is being used literally or figuratively in a narrative.
• Explain how connotation and implied attitudes change a phrase’s meaning.
• Use context clues (character reactions and what happens next) to interpret figurative language.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain how calibration and traceable reference points improve temperature measurement accuracy.
• Describe how sensor response time, placement, shielding, and thermal contact affect measured temperature in environmental settings.
• Interpret temperature readings using uncertainty, resolution limits, and an uncertainty budget.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain qualitatively how truss members carry tension and compression along internal force paths
• Describe the method of joints to determine unknown member forces in a planar truss
• Compare common truss forms used in bridges and roofs and identify which members are typically loaded in tension or compression

Learning Objectives

• Identify causes and effects in narrative and informational texts using evidence
• Explain how a decision, event, or condition leads to an outcome
• Distinguish between evidence-based claims and assumptions in causal reasoning

Learning Objectives

• Understand the different types of weathering and how they break down rocks.
• Identify examples of physical weathering processes.
• Explain how weathering influences landscape features and soil formation.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how decreasing transport energy leads to deposition and the formation of landforms such as deltas and floodplains
• Describe how sediment characteristics and depositional processes create layered strata and clues about past environments
• Compare glacial, aeolian, and coastal deposition and relate them to specific landforms (moraines, drumlins, dunes, beaches, shelves)+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Understand the structure of Earth's lithospheric plates
• Identify the different types of plate boundaries
• Recognize the geological features associated with plate interactions+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Define invasive species and describe their characteristics.
• Explain how invasive species affect native ecosystems.
• Identify ecological consequences caused by invasive species.+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain how political authority is connected to legitimacy in different types of government.
• Identify legal, cultural, and historical factors that shape political systems.
• Analyze how legitimacy affects stability, change, and citizen participation.

Learning Objectives

• Explain how cause and effect connections help develop ideas in an informational text
• Analyze how individuals’ actions and later events reshape understanding of earlier ideas
• Compare concepts over time by identifying contrast and refinement within a text+ Show more

Learning Objectives

• Explain how readers use inference clues to combine explicit details with implied meaning.
• Identify evidence (actions, tone shifts, cause-and-effect) that supports an inference.
• Distinguish what a text directly states from what it suggests, and test conclusions using nearby details.

Learning Objectives

• Identify how a formal claim should be stated clearly and kept specific to the topic
• Explain how evidence and reasoning should connect back to a claim in a structured presentation
• Use appropriate tone and transitions to help an audience follow an argument

Learning Objectives

• Explain how biodiversity can be described using richness, evenness, and habitat heterogeneity.
• Interpret what different biodiversity metrics may indicate about ecosystem resilience and ecological function.
• Connect habitat complexity to changes in species assemblages in Alberta-like environments.