What your child learns in Grade 7 in New Brunswick
Grade 7 starts deeper work with integers, fractions, decimals, percents and equations. Science covers matter, energy, weather and climate. Social studies explores worldview and culture, human rights, global citizenship and historically diverse regions of the world.
Grade 7 subjects in the New Brunswick Curriculum
Math
Big Ideas
- Number: Number Sense. Describe numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems.
- Number: Operations. Add and subtract positive and negative integers to solve problems.
- Statistics and Probability: Data Analysis. Calculate measures of central tendency to solve problems.
14 units, including divisibility rules, add & subtract integers, fractions, decimal operations.
English Language Arts
Big Ideas
- Interactions: Expression. Describe and contribute thoughts, feelings, and experiences and compare to those of their peers.
- Interactions: Exchanges. Seek and respond to questions to clarify or explain ideas, concepts, problems and solutions.
- Interactions: Reception. Critically reflect on the contributions of others.
11 units, including close reading, literary devices, tone & mood, whose story?.
Science
Big Ideas
- Grade focus: Earth Surface Processes.
- Scientific Literacy: Investigation. Plan investigations to answer questions about relationships between and among variables observed in matter and Earth surface processes.
- Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking. Analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative data to construct explanations and conclusions.
9 units, including ecosystems, food chains & energy, people & ecosystems, particles & mixtures.
Social Studies
Big Ideas
- Geography: Human Systems and Interactions. Assess how worldview and culture influence identity.
- History: Events and Peoples. Research historically diverse regions of the world.
- Civics: Rights and Responsibilities. Examine selected issues relating to human rights legislation around the world.
5 units, including world beliefs, wabanaki worldviews & cultures, comparing societies, where civilizations grew.
French Immersion
Big Ideas
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Comprehension. Demonstrate understanding of increasingly complex oral texts on a variety of topics using comprehension strategies.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Production and Interaction. Share information, knowledge, ideas, and opinions on a variety of topics using various types of presentations and/or exchanges.
- Speaking and Listening: Multilingual Identities and Cultural Appreciation. Describe how languages and cultures shape learners’ own evolving identities and worldviews.
7 units, including le superlatif, choisir le bon temps, figures de style, la poésie.
Core French
Big Ideas
- Oral Communication: Speak, Listen, Communicate, Interact. Ask for and provide information in social and school settings with accuracy.
- Reading and Viewing: Read, Comprehend, Respond, Interpret. Read, comprehend, and interpret a variety of texts.
- Writing and Representing: Create Simple Texts. Produce simple, connected texts on familiar topics of personal interest.
8 units, including directions, places in town, comparing, describing people.
What to look for on the report card
Look for comments on independence, study habits and confidence with the harder math and reading ahead. A Grade 7 mathematics assessment is listed for 2026-2027.
New Brunswick report cards describe learning with Working below, Approaching, Meeting, Excelling. See what each level means.
Grade 7 students also take the New Brunswick provincial assessments. Read the Provincial assessments guide.
The Global Competencies grow through every subject from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Read about global competencies.
Ready for Grade 7?
Grade 7 builds on what your child practised in Grade 6. If a skill feels shaky, a few short practice sessions before or early in the year can help:
- Math: thousandths to billions, facts & factors, mixed numbers & ratios, percents & budgets, decimal × and ÷
- English Language Arts: roots & analogies, agreement, sentence repair, commas & clauses, text forms & features
- Science: static electricity, circuits, flight, earth, moon and sun, our solar system
- Social Studies: map skills, the atlantic region, what makes canada, canada?, governments & rights, working in the atlantic region
- French Immersion: imparfait ou passé composé?, racines et préfixes, les légendes, quand et où?, le roman jeunesse
- Core French: letter patterns, question words, hobbies, giving reasons, feelings and states
Common questions
Grade 7 covers math, english language arts, science, social studies, french immersion, core french in the New Brunswick Curriculum. Grade 7 starts deeper work with integers, fractions, decimals, percents and equations. Science covers matter, energy, weather and climate. Social studies explores worldview and culture, human rights, global citizenship and historically diverse regions of the world.
New Brunswick report cards describe learning with Working below, Approaching, Meeting, Excelling. Students in Grade 7 also write the New Brunswick provincial assessments, which is separate from the report card.
Short, regular practice works better than long sessions: 10 to 15 minutes a few times a week, on the skills your child's teacher flags. Read together, use math in real life, and praise effort.
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