How to read this page
Alberta publishes its curriculum as long official documents written for teachers. This page is the same content, translated for the fridge door: each subject below shows this year's units and the skills inside them. If a skill sounds unfamiliar, that's the point — now you know what to ask about at dinner.
Mathematics this year
Math builds in layers, and this year's layer matters — each unit below leans on the ones before it. In Alberta, that's Mathematics 7 — 4 units, 50 skills.
Number
- Testing for divisibility
- Adding and subtracting decimals
- Finding a percent of a number
Patterns and Relations
- Oral and written patterns
- Building a table of values
- Modelling preservation of equality
Shape and Space
- Radius, diameter and circumference
- Area of triangles
- Perpendicular and parallel line segments
Statistics and Probability
- Mean, median and mode
- How outliers affect mean, median and mode
- Constructing circle graphs
See the full Mathematics 7 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
English Language Arts this year
Reading, writing, and speaking skills deepen this year — less "can they read it," more "what do they make of it." In Alberta, that's English Language Arts 7 — 5 units, 20 skills.
Reading and Comprehension
- Summarizing main ideas
- Clarifying and assessing your ideas
Responding to and Analyzing Texts
- Comparing character choices and behaviours
- Forms and genres
- Recurring themes across cultures
Research and Information
- Focusing a topic for audience and purpose
- Organizing into categories
Writing Craft and Conventions
- Revising for coherence
- Subordinate clauses and agreement
See the full English Language Arts 7 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Science this year
Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In Alberta, that's Science 7 — 5 units, 41 skills.
Interactions and Ecosystems
- Human–environment relationships
- Food chains and food webs
- Environmental factors
Plants for Food and Fibre
- Plant uses
- Plant structures and their jobs
- Factors affecting plant growth
Heat and Temperature
- Technologies for controlling heat
- Heat vs. temperature
- Conduction, convection and radiation
Structures and Forces
- Solid, frame and shell structures
- Internal and external forces
- Strength and flexibility
Planet Earth
- How we study the Earth
- The three rock types
- Evidence of landform change
See the full Science 7 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
French this year
French builds through listening, speaking, and simple reading — confidence first, grammar second. In Alberta, that's French as a Second Language 7 (Nine-Year Program) — 6 units, 20 skills.
La boîte à outils — Grade 7 Foundations
- Avoir, être, faire, aller in the present
- Articles and agreement
- Saying no: ne … pas
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Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 7 in Alberta?
Alberta's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French for Grade 7 — 156 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers number and patterns and relations; English Language Arts covers reading and comprehension and responding to and analyzing texts; Science covers interactions and ecosystems and plants for food and fibre. The full list is on this page.
Is this the official Alberta curriculum?
It's built from Alberta's official program of studies, reorganized into plain language — and each subject links to a course page that quotes the ministry's own wording and links to the government source, so you can check our work. One honest caveat: we're not the ministry, curricula do change, and we can't guarantee this reflects the very latest revision, so confirm anything important against the live provincial curriculum data.
My child is finding one of these skills hard. What can I do?
That's normal — every skill on this page is one most kids wobble on at first. MapleMind teaches any of them one-on-one: a short lesson in plain words, a worked example, then solving together. It's free to start, on any device, in 14 languages.
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MapleMind isn't affiliated with any ministry of education. We build these guides from each province's official program of studies and refresh them from time to time — but curricula change, and we can't guarantee this page reflects the very latest revision. Always confirm against the live provincial curriculum data. Last updated 2026-08-15.
Social Studies this year
Social studies widens the lens this year — history, geography, and how communities and governments work. In Alberta, that's Social Studies 7 — 2 units, 25 skills.
Toward Confederation
- Aboriginal societies and decision-making
- Participants in the fur trade
- Conflict and the Acadian Deportation
+ 9 more skills in this unit →Following Confederation: Canadian Expansions
- Louis Riel and the two resistances
- Rupert’s Land and the National Policy
- Newfoundland joins Confederation
+ 10 more skills in this unit →See the full Social Studies 7 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →