7th Grade Resources

This is a TEDed video that demonstrates how cancer-fighting drugs kill cancer and why the human body ends up with some side effects.

Experience an authentic space shuttle launch with this video, and make sure to play it loud with a high-quality sound system so that your students...

A 14-year-old girl describes a great American adventure, crossing the Plains by wagon on a 2000-mile journey west

This video was an educational film for schools during the Cold War to teach them about Duck and Cover Drills in the event of a nuclear attack. (...

This is a great video to give a brief summation and history of the Pony Express.

Here is a handout to give students when they are about to do a science experiment.  It will help them focus on the procedure of the scientific...

This is a fun propaganda cartoon that is a great review of dictators, people, and events of WWII. (World War 2, WW2, World War II, HItler,...

This video is great at giving a simple animation and description on how our body benefits from plants' photosynthesis. Stomata, Carbohydrates,...

This is a great video to help introduce the idea of bartering, trade, and money in economics.

Students have a difficult time actually understanding how big or small planets are or distances to and from planets compared to other terrestrial...

This is a great video to explore the Nuremberg Trials after WWII. (World War 2, WW2, World War II) It has personal accounts from Walter Cronkite...

When discussing tsunamis it is good to discuss that some tsunamis can reach hundreds of feet high if the conditions are right.  In 1958 that is...

This TEDEd video discusses five parasites and how they affect the host's brain.  The parasites it discusses are the Gordian Worm, Rabies Virus,...

This video is great for a discussion on scientific experimentation and the power of the mind.  The video describes 3 different scientific...

This is a 5-minute video that does an excellent job talking about bats, their conservation, their feeding habits, their evolution, and their...

This is a great video to examine how a lightning bolt is formed and travels.

I created this program to generate unlimited opportunities to create sentences using names, nouns, adjectives, and verbs.  Just click the "...

Explore with your students Saturn's moon Enceladus.  Did you know that scientists believe they have finally confirmed under-ice oceans on...

Bill Nye the Science Guy describes how scientists and physicists might be able to stop an asteroid as it comes closer to Earth.  He discusses the...

This video explains the development and rise of McCarthyism, and specifically the role of Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare during the...

Sugar is blamed way too much for a child's extra energy.  Watch this video to see why science says it is not to be blamed.

This is a great video overview with interesting facts about president Ulysses S. Grant, produced by Disney.

In this sand dune activity, students will have the opportunity to explore five different types of sand dunes: barchan, parabolic, star, transverse...