Light LearningEvery topic a child covers in Grade 7 under the Canada · Alberta programme of studies, on the Western and Northern Canadian Protocol, as the app teaches it. 83 topics across 21 subjects: Explore, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Quantitative reasoning, Verbal reasoning, Exam technique, Brain teasers, Mathematics, English, Writing, French, Spanish, Reading, Art, Physical education, Health, Computing, Social studies, Music, Drama.
This is the real list, not a summary. Each line is one topic in Light Learning, in the words of the Canada programme rather than reworded.
Reading
35 topics in Reading this year.
Comprehension and Response
- Read a text and respond to it, using evidence from the text to support an answer.
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Art
9 topics in Art this year.
Drawing
- Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Grade 7: tone and shading, perspective, observational study.
Colour
- How colour actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Grade 7: tints and shades, colour and feeling.
Painting
- Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Grade 7: brush marks, working from a study.
Printmaking and pattern
- Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Grade 7: relief printing, pattern in other cultures.
Sculpture and making
- Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Grade 7: carving and casting, working to a brief.
Textiles and craft
- Cloth, thread and the making traditions that most of the world learned art through. Working at Grade 7: dyeing and resist.
Digital art and photography
- The tools most children will actually use, treated as art materials rather than as a treat. Working at Grade 7: framing and composition, editing honestly, drawing on a screen.
Looking at art
- Being able to say something true about somebody else’s work, which is half of every art curriculum and the half usually skipped. Working at Grade 7: what the artist did, why it was made, disagreeing about art.
Sketchbook and process
- The record of the work rather than the finished piece, which is what an art course is actually assessed on. Working at Grade 7: keeping a sketchbook, trying it three ways, annotating your work, finishing a piece.
Physical education
4 topics in Physical education this year.
Movement skills
- The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Grade 7: agility and reaction.
Fitness and the body
- What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Grade 7: warming up and cooling down, heart rate, stamina and strength, muscles and joints, planning your own training.
Games and fair play
- How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Grade 7: playing by the rules, attacking and defending, tactics and set plays, winning and losing well, officiating a game yourself.
Safety and equipment
- The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Grade 7: kit and footwear, common injuries, head injuries.
Health
4 topics in Health this year.
Keeping the body well
- Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Grade 7: sleep, illness and immunity, growing and changing.
Food and nutrition
- What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Grade 7: water and drinks, reading a label, allergies.
Feelings and wellbeing
- Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Grade 7: naming feelings, calming down, worry, screens and comparison, asking for help.
Safety and first aid
- What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Grade 7: road and water safety, first aid: bleeding and burns, when somebody is unconscious, medicines.
Computing
4 topics in Computing this year.
Algorithms and programming
- Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At Grade 7: variables, debugging, breaking a problem up.
How computers work
- What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At Grade 7: binary, networks and the internet, how a search engine works.
Online safety and citizenship
- Passwords, privacy, scams and behaviour. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At Grade 7: passwords, judging what you read, being decent online, what a free app costs.
Creating with technology
- Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At Grade 7: spreadsheets, making a program, using other people’s work, making it usable by everybody.
Social studies
4 topics in Social studies this year.
History
- What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Grade 7: cause and consequence, bias and interpretation.
Geography
- Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Grade 7: latitude, longitude and time zones, rivers, coasts and landforms, people and places.
Citizenship and government
- How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Grade 7: how a country is run, taxes and public services, having a say.
People, work and money
- How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Grade 7: buying, selling and trade, why prices change.
Mathematics
3 topics in Mathematics this year.
Number
- Add, subtract, multiply and divide integers, and explain the rules for signs.
Shape and Space
- Use angle relationships in lines, triangles and polygons to find unknown angles.
Statistics and Probability
- Calculate and compare measures of central tendency, and interpret data displays critically.
Music
3 topics in Music this year.
Beat, rhythm and pitch
- The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Grade 7: scales and octaves, syncopation.
Reading and writing music
- How sound is written down so somebody who has never heard it can play it. At Grade 7: the stave and clefs, time signatures, sharps, flats and keys.
Listening and traditions
- Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Grade 7: verse, chorus and structure, improvising, music with pictures.
Drama
3 topics in Drama this year.
Voice and performing
- Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At Grade 7: being heard, staying in character, when it goes wrong.
Character and script
- Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At Grade 7: conflict and status, improvising, monologue and soliloquy.
Stagecraft
- Everything around the actor, and the people who run it. At Grade 7: light and sound, rehearsal, working backstage.
Quantitative reasoning
2 topics in Quantitative reasoning this year.
Reasoning · quantitative
- Find and apply the rule behind a numerical or figural pattern (CCAT-style reasoning; not an Alberta programme of studies outcome).
- Find and apply the rule behind a numerical or figural pattern (CCAT-style reasoning; not an Alberta programme of studies outcome).
Verbal reasoning
2 topics in Verbal reasoning this year.
Reasoning · verbal
- Reason about word meaning and relationships under time pressure (CCAT-style reasoning; not an Alberta programme of studies outcome).
- Reason about word meaning and relationships under time pressure (CCAT-style reasoning; not an Alberta programme of studies outcome).
Explore
1 topic in Explore this year.
Medicine
- Explain how immune memory works and what a vaccine actually contains.
Physics
1 topic in Physics this year.
Structures and Forces
- Describe forces acting on objects, and analyse how motion changes when forces are unbalanced.
Chemistry
1 topic in Chemistry this year.
Mix and Flow of Matter
- Use the particle model to explain the properties of solids, liquids, gases, and of mixtures and solutions.
Biology
1 topic in Biology this year.
Interactions and Ecosystems · living things
- Describe the cell as the basic unit of life, and compare plant and animal cells.
Exam technique
1 topic in Exam technique this year.
Assessment readiness
- Use estimation and elimination to answer multiple-choice items efficiently.
Brain teasers
1 topic in Brain teasers this year.
Puzzles and reasoning
- Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.
English
1 topic in English this year.
Comprehension and Response
- Draw inferences from a text and support them with specific evidence.
Writing
1 topic in Writing this year.
Writing and Text Forms
- Write a multi-paragraph piece with a clear line of argument and supporting evidence.
French
1 topic in French this year.
French as a Second Language
- Understand and use familiar French words and phrases in everyday situations.
Spanish
1 topic in Spanish this year.
Spanish Language and Culture
- Understand and use familiar Spanish words and phrases in everyday situations.