Grade 7Social Studies
What your child actually learns this year
Every strand and every topic in the Grade 7 Social Studies curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.
1Social Studies and Personal DevelopmentShort, and about your child rather than about the world.
Self-Exploration
4 skillsWorking out honestly what you are good at and what you are like.
Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Social Studies
3 skillsWhere the subject leads, and the work that genuinely exists in it.
2People and RelationshipsWhere people came from, how they have treated each other, and how to do it better.
Human Origin
4 skillsWhat the evidence says about where people came from, and why Kenya sits at the centre of that story.
Early Civilisation
4 skillsThe first cities, and what made them possible.
Slavery and Servitude
4 skillsHow it worked, who it took, and what it left behind.
Developments in Medium of Trade
4 skillsFrom barter to coins to a phone. How people have agreed on what counts as money.
Diversity and Interpersonal Relationships
4 skillsGetting on with people who are not like you. A skill, and taught as one.
Peaceful Coexistence
4 skillsLiving alongside each other without it turning into conflict.
3Community Service-LearningOne topic, and it is a real piece of work rather than a lesson.
Community Service-Learning Project
5 skillsA project planned and carried out in the community, assessed on what was actually done.
4Natural and Historic Built Environments in AfricaThe largest strand: the land, the sky above it, and how we know about the past.
Historical Information
4 skillsWhere history comes from, and how to tell a reliable source from a story.
Historical Development of Agriculture
4 skillsHow farming began and changed, which is most of how societies changed.
Maps and Map Work
4 skillsScale, direction and symbols, and getting a real answer off a real map.
Earth and the Solar System
5 skillsWhere we are, what we are going round, and why that gives us days, years and seasons.
Weather
4 skillsHow it is measured, and what the instruments actually record.
Fieldwork
4 skillsGoing out and collecting the evidence yourself rather than reading somebody else's.
5Political Development and GovernanceHow countries are run, and what your child's part in it is.
Political Development in Africa
4 skillsHow African states came to be governed the way they are.
The Constitution of Kenya
4 skillsWhat the document does, how it can be changed, and why it matters that changing it is hard.
Human Rights
5 skillsWhat a right is, who holds it, and what is supposed to happen when one is breached.
African Diasporas
4 skillsThe African communities spread across the world, how they got there, and the ties that remain.
Citizenship
6 skillsHow a person becomes a citizen, and what citizenship obliges as well as what it grants.
Why you can take this page at face value
Straight from the KICD design
The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 7 Social Studies curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.
Nothing here is a sample
Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.
Marked by a machine, written by a person
Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.
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