GRADE 7

Analyzing Political Cartoons About AI

We’re exploring the pros and cons of machine learning and generative artificial intelligence. To start thinking about the social and civic dimensions of AI, we reflected on what we know and what we want to know with the help of political cartoons about AI.

Training a Machine Learning Model

We practiced training an AI model using Google's Teachable Machine. (Note: The data and models weren’t uploaded for sharing or training actual models.) The site allows users to teach a computer to recognize images, sounds, & poses.

Potential Uses of AI in Science and Medicine

We used Google AI Quest to learn about potential uses of AI in science and medicine. We had to identify data and clean data that would be used to train an example AI model.

Engineering Week / Black History Month Guest Speakers, Field Trips, Reading

Our junior chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), in partnership with our school's Civil Engineering Club, organized learning opportunities for International Engineering Week 2026 and Black History Month.

Check out the full event summary, including a visit by civil engineers and a tower building competition and a field trip to Penn Engineering and the GRASP Lab.

Digital Citizenship Videos

On virtual learning days due to snow, we watched videos about being good digital citizens and discussed the videos with someone in our family.

Coding Websites with HTML and CSS

We began learning about how paragraphs and headings are coded using HTML (hypertext markup language) using Web Lab on code.org. HTML is basically one of the languages that developers use to tell your internet browser how to display a webpage.

We started by learning about opening and closing tags like <p> and </p>, which let a computer browser know that a specific bit of text is a paragraph. Heading tags like <h> and </h> help show the importance of text and set it apart from paragraphs. We can even use tags to make bulleted and numbered lists.

The tutorials and practice tasks in code.org asked us to identify and correct bugs in the HTML code and to begin creating content.

We added to our knowledge of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) tags by learning how to insert images into a webpage. We wrapped up our unit on creating webpages with HTML and CSS. Our last lesson was on styling elements on our pages with CSS.

Coding Loops with Sphero Indi

We did some coding with Sphero Indi and color cards to create an algorithm in which the robot doesn't stop. This repeated pattern is a loop.

Designing Digital Citizenship Posters with Adobe Express

Throughout the school year, we discuss strategies for staying safe online. At beginning of the year, we designed posters and social media images with advice for peers about how to handle challenging digital scenarios. These scenarious can occur on a computer, phone, tablet, or even gaming system.

Staying Safe and Kind on the Internet

We learned about digital citizenship with Interland, by discussing digital citizenship scenarios, and from a guest speaker from the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General.