7+ Awesome Resources to Add to Your 7th Grade Homeschool

Looking for curriculum and resources to add to your 7th-grade homeschool curriculum? Here are our picks for this year starting with those curriculums and resources we have come to rely on year after year.

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7th-Grade Homeschool Curriculum and Resources

Across Most Subjects

For most of our 7th-grade homeschool subjects, we will use our lifetime membership with Productive Homeschooling’s Notebooking Pages.

We have been with Productive Homeschooling (formerly known as Notebookingpages.com) for six years now and it has been the best investment we’ve ever made. They have hundreds of topics and thousands of notebooking pages.

And with a lifetime membership, you get access to all current and future products. This resource is very versatile and covers so many subjects for all grades pre-K all the way through high school.

If you are not sure if it’s a fit for you, check out their video below and/or give their free sampler a try.

7th-Grade Homeschool Math

For math, we are sticking with our favorite, Math-U-See. This year, the boys will be taking up Pre-Algebra. They will learn various topics that include but not limited to:

• negative numbers, using basic operations
• exponents
• roots and radicals
• Pythagorean Theorem
• surface area and volume of solids
• converting between Celsius and Fahrenheit
• absolute value
• ratio and proportion
• polygons
• polynomials
• irrational numbers

If you decide to use Math-U-See in your 7th-grade homeschool, be sure to check out my post, How to Use Math-U-See in Your Homeschool.

I’ve also added a history component to their math. We will discuss various mathematicians who have made contributions to those topics we will be covering.

First, we will read up on a mathematician. Then using Productive Homeschooling’s Notebooking Pages, will write a small summary of what we learned. Some mathematicians we will cover include Euclid, Archimedes, Pythagoras, Thales, Fibonacci, and Pascal.

7th-Grade Homeschool History

World History/Geography

This year we will complete the Story of the World Curriculum with Volume 4: The Modern Age. We will also watch the following DVD’s. The boys love seeing their history come alive and the History Channel did a great job with these programs.

• Mankind, The Story of All of Us
• America, The Story of Us

Along with this curriculum, we will continue using our Record of Time (from Homeschool in the Woods) to place figures and events on our timelines.

If you would like to see my reviews on these resources click here at 6 Resources for a Complete 5th Grade History and Geography Homeschool.

7th-Grade Homeschool Science

Last year we used Bernard J. Nebel’s Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding book to create our science curriculum and it worked well for us. I had to put in a little more work into creating lesson plans but I loved all the guidance the book gives.

So for this year, we will be using his second book, Elementary Science Education. If you would like to read my review of last year’s book, click here: Mid-Year Homeschool Curriculum Review for 6th Grade.

This year we will continue to learn about the different elements of the periodic table. Using Productive Homeschooling’s NotebookingPages, we discuss a different element every week and fill out a fact sheet about that element.

We will also do a couple of lap book activities (available at ConfessionsofaHomeschooler.com) covering Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers. I purchased these a couple of years ago and want to finish them up this year.

We are also going to try Groovy Lab in a Box <– Click here to learn more about Groovy for some hands-on fun.

7th-Grade Homeschool Resource for For Language Arts

We will be using BJU Press’ Writing & Grammar 7 curriculum. We have been using BJU for the past three years and the boys seem to be doing very well with it.

As for the writing component of this book, we will go over those skills and strategies mentioned in the book. However, instead of completing the assigned writing in the book, the boys will be expected to complete a research paper on a historical person or event.

The boys prefer doing these as opposed to those assigned in the book. And they get to practice their typing skills.

Classical Literature

This year we will be reading the following books if I can get them all in:

• A Tale of Two Cities
• Last of the Mohicans

I will also try to fit in some poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Robert Browning.

And of course, some Shakespeare:

• The Tempest
• Love’s Labour’s Lost

We are blessed to own these books and plays but you can find many of them for free on Amazon Kindle. I have provided links to these works searching for the free Kindle versions first.

If I couldn’t find them for free I linked to the most economical version. We will also use Productive Homeschooling’s NotebookingPages’s for Literary Study and their Famous Poets Pages along with our readings.

Electives

Finances

This year, I have added a learning component to our curriculum dealing with finances. We will be using Walter Andal’s Finance 101 for Kids book.

Computer – Programming

This year we are going to do some game programming with Homeschool Programming Inc. Last year, the boys took their Digital Savvy course and that went really well. But the boys are itching to do some serious game programming.

There are two different kinds of game programming courses: Visual Basic and Unity. Unity will become available later in the fall as they are currently still working on putting the course together.

Update: After getting through a few of the first components of this curriculum, we started having problems understanding some of the concepts and the programming became more and more difficult.

I tried to seek help from the site which had some tutorials and we were able to continue a little further.

However, when the course became more difficult, the person who handles these inquiries was of very little help. I am assuming that they refrain from giving too much help so that you are forced to purchase their higher package which offers a virtual teacher.

I was disappointed and we just nixed this curriculum from our schedule. Also, when I went to look up their online tutorials, they removed them. Go figure!

Spanish

This year I decided to give BJU’s Spanish 1 Curriculum a chance. I find it expensive but it does come with a lot in one kit.

There are two student workbooks: one that is the course workbook and the other an activities manual. They also provide teacher’s manuals for both these workbooks as well as tests with answer keys and a case filled with 12 CD’s.

The only beef I am having with this curriculum is that there are no lesson plans or some sort of schedule recommendation (despite the book’s notification that lesson plans are available online–they are not.)

This leaves me with having to go through the curriculum to try and piece together a decent lesson plan.

Update: I have put together a lesson plan for all these subjects including Spanish. Fill out the form at the end of the post to get your free copy.

Hands-On Electives

This year, we are adding the subscription box company, Tinker Crate. I have seen their demos on Facebook and the boys think it is pretty cool. Click here to save 30% on your first month’s box.

Physical Education

I don’t usually have a particular curriculum for this. Basically, the boys ride their bikes or go for a swim, weather permitting. They will continue to do this again this year.

However, I have written to Daily Burn, a service I use for fitness. I’m going to see if they can possibly create a fitness program for kids. 

I’m hoping they will see this as a great opportunity to get kids moving at an early age. I will let you know their response if they get back to me.

Update (7-5-17): Daily Burn did contact me and they have forwarded my suggestion to their product team for review. I’ll keep you posted.

Well, these are our curriculum picks.

If you have a suggestion for 7th-grade homeschool curriculum, please feel free to comment below. I love to try out different stuff and see what sticks.

Update: I have created lesson plans for this school year using the above curriculum. If you’d like to get your free copy, fill out the form below and you’ll receive that pdf.

Need help with curriculum for other homeschool grades. Click on any of the posts below:

• 5th-grade homeschool curriculum resources
• 6th-grade homeschool curriculum resources
• 8th-grade homeschool curriculum resources

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