Resource Guides: Middle School Summer Reading & Assignments: 7th Grade

7th Grade Summer Bingo

Your Middle School teachers have created a fun Bingo-style game for your summer learning! Check out the options for your 2025-2026 grade and earn Bingo this summer! You will turn in your Bingo board for a grade, so make sure you keep track of your work - you may use either Google Drive or printed copies. See the links on the grade-specific pages for more information.

Books are available in multiple formats from public libraries, local bookstores, and online retailers.

7th Grade Summer Bingo 2025
This link will allow you to make a copy that you can save, edit, or print.

Math Assignments for 7th Grade

Students have or will receive a specific math packet that is required to be completed for each grade. Should a family misplace the packet, they can find it below. Select the packet for the math course you will take in 7th grade.

Science Assignment for 7th Grade (Life Science)

Choose one of the following options:

1. Read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot and write a paragraph summarizing three things you learned about Henrietta Lacks and the impact of her cells.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Call Number: 616.027 S

ISBN: 9781400052172

Publication Date: 2010-02-02

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked grave. Her family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. The story of the Lacks family is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of--From publisher description.

2. Read Hoot by Carl Hiaasen and Write a paragraph about endangered animals and how you can help with animal conservation.

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
ISBN: 0375821813

Publication Date: 2002-09-10

From the catalog: Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

3. Visit The National Aquarium

Things to focus on: Animal Adaptations
Write a paragraph to summarize three adaptations that animals have to survive in three different environments/habitats.

Visit the National Aquarium

4. Visit The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore

Things to focus on: Earth and animal conservation
Write a paragraph to summarize three new things that you learned, and then three things you can do to help with animal conservation.

The Maryland Zoo

5. Streaming on MAX - Watch The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Write a paragraph summarizing three NEW things you learned about Henrietta Lacks OR the impact of her cells.

6. Streaming on Disney+/Hulu - Watch the Jane Goodall Documentary

Write a paragraph to summarize three new things that you learned, and then three things you can do to help with animal conservation.