What does a student learn in StateNew Hampshire,GradeGrade 7,SubjectSocial Studies?

Students learn where the rules of American government came from. They study the ideas and events that shaped the U.S. Constitution and New Hampshire's own constitution, tracing how those documents came to define the country's system of government.

Students learn how city councils, state legislatures, Congress, and tribal governments are set up and what each one actually does. The standard also covers how those levels of government work with and answer to each other.

Citizens in a democracy hold both rights (such as free speech and voting) and responsibilities (such as following laws and staying informed). Students learn how those two sides connect and how people take part in self-government.

Students look at how the U.S. works with other countries and groups like the United Nations, examining why those relationships exist and what the U.S. gives up or gains from them.

Students weigh the real costs and benefits before choosing between two options, like deciding whether spending money on one thing means giving up something else they wanted.

Markets decide what gets made, how much it costs, and who gets it. Students learn how prices rise and fall based on what people want to buy and what sellers have to offer.

Students compare how different countries organize their economies, looking at who controls prices, jobs, and businesses. They also examine what governments, companies, banks, and workers each do in those systems.

Students learn how money decisions work in real life: when to save, when to spend, how credit creates debt, and what it means to invest money so it grows over time.

Students read maps, photos, and other geographic tools to study how places look, where regions sit, and what patterns show up across the world.

Students describe what makes a place distinct, its landforms, climate, and the ways people have built and shaped it over time. The focus includes both New Hampshire and the broader United States.

Students look at why people have moved, settled, and spread their customs and ideas across different parts of the world. They explain the patterns those movements left behind, such as why certain cities grew where they did or how a language spread across a continent.

Students look at how geography affects the way people live (why cities grow near rivers, for example) and how people change the land around them through farming, building, and other activity.

Students examine how the U.S. government got its structure and rules, and where New Hampshire fit into that story. They look at key decisions made by early leaders and how those choices still shape how the country runs today.

Students look at the big moments that changed the country, from civil rights movements and westward expansion to wars and political conflicts, and explain how each one reshaped American life.

Students trace how people in the U.S. and New Hampshire lived, worked, and traded from before European contact to today, looking at how culture and the economy changed over time.

Students study how major civilizations grew, traded, fought, and borrowed ideas from each other across thousands of years of world history.

Students compare how different countries and time periods organized power and money. They look at who made the rules, who controlled trade, and how those choices shaped everyday life.

Students look at a problem happening in the world today, such as a conflict or food shortage, and trace it back to the historical events that helped cause it.