How to read this page
British Columbia 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 British Columbia, that's Mathematics 7 — 6 units, 25 skills.
Number
- Fast, reliable facts to 100
- Adding and subtracting integers
- Adding and subtracting decimals
Patterns and Relations
- From expression to table of values
- Solving two-step equations
Shape and Space: Measurement
- Finding circumference
- Volume of a rectangular prism
Shape and Space: Transformations
- Plotting and reading coordinates
- Combining two transformations
Data and Probability
- Constructing a circle graph
- Running a two-event probability experiment
Financial Literacy
- Solving money problems with percent
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 British Columbia, that's English Language Arts 7 — 3 units, 51 skills.
Story and Text
- Forms of text
- Using text features
- Narrative structures
Strategies and Processes
- Using contextual clues
- Focusing on the speaker
- Reflecting
Language Features, Structure, and Conventions
- Tone
- Paragraphing
- Regional dialects and varieties of English
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 British Columbia, that's Science 7 — 4 units, 14 skills.
Biodiversity, Survival, and Natural Selection
- Life on Earth has evolved
- Basic needs for survival
- Natural selection drives evolution
Chemistry: Pure Substances, Structure, and Change
- What is an element?
- What is a compound?
- What makes something a pure substance
Electricity and Electromagnetism
- Generating electricity, and its trade-offs
- How electricity and magnetism connect
Evidence of Change Over Geological Time
- Fossils as evidence of change
- What First Peoples knowledge tells us
- Reading climate from physical records
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 British Columbia, that's Core French 7 — 4 units, 17 skills.
With Simple French, We Can Discuss Our Interests
- Asking information questions with question words
- Describing what other people look like
- Saying where things are with prepositions of place
Stories
- Finding the common elements of a story
Deepening Our Knowledge of Francophone Communities
- Communities where French is spoken across Canada
- Cultural aspects of Francophone communities
- Connections between First Peoples communities and the French language
See the full Core French 7 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Grade 7 is an FSA year
BC students take the Foundation Skills Assessment in Grade 7 — a low-stakes check of literacy and numeracy against the curriculum below.
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Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 7 in British Columbia?
British Columbia's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French for Grade 7 — 118 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers number and patterns and relations; English Language Arts covers story and text and strategies and processes; Science covers biodiversity, survival, and natural selection and chemistry: pure substances, structure, and change. The full list is on this page.
Is this the official British Columbia curriculum?
It's built from British Columbia'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.
Does Grade 7 have a provincial test in British Columbia?
BC students take the Foundation Skills Assessment in Grade 7 — a low-stakes check of literacy and numeracy against the curriculum below.
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 British Columbia, that's Social Studies 7 — 7 units, 11 skills.
Human Origins
Geography and Early Peoples
Rise and Fall of Civilizations
World Religions
Science, Philosophy, and Technology
Contact and Exchange Between Civilizations
Systems and Structures
See the full Social Studies 7 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →