Welcome to 7th Grade Social Studies! I am looking forward to working with you this year. We will start this year by looking at some topics we will discuss this year and learn more about our Social Studies class this year. Please make sure to check assignments and materials in Google Classroom. Please make sure to reach out if there are any questions or concerns.
I have enjoyed teaching everyone this year and hope you all have a great summer.
Seventh grade students will study Earth from a regional perspective, focusing on the continents. Students will study contemporary places and regions to identify how the experiences of people are rooted in places and organized into geographic regions. Students will learn about Earth’s physical conditions (e.g., climate, soils, vegetation) and how these features interact with Earth’s other living features. This course also focuses on human systems and the sum of human activities and characteristics (e.g., culture, ethnicity, gender, language, population, religion) that vary across the Earth’s surface. These systems also include the spatial distribution of population and the movement, settlement patterns, economic systems, and political systems. Students will explore the interactions between environment and society to learn how human activities modify Earth, how resources are used, and how physical systems, such as climate, present risks to humans. We will also, at times, be watching the news program CNN: 10 (Student News), which covers important events going on in our world. While we will not focus on news stories that are of a political nature, we will be using the content during parts of class as a discussion piece.
As teachers, we monitor and adjust as we teach our daily lessons to ensure our students are encouraged to be successful; therefore, these plans are subject to change.