ICSE Class 7 — Certification Brochure

LAPT

London Academy of Professional Training

Certificate

ICSE Class 7

• ICSE Schools • Middle School

13Subjects	75Chapters	821Classes	60%Pass Mark	LifetimeValidity

At a Glance

Award	Certificate
Prerequisites	None
Validity	Lifetime
Awarding Body	LAPT — London Academy of Professional Training

Curriculum

Arts Education

8 chapters · 46 classes

• Form — 5 classes

› The Elements of Visual Arts: Point, Line, Shape, Colour, Tone, Texture and Space

› Objects and Still Life — part 1

› Objects and Still Life — part 2

› Observing Lines and Shapes in Nature and Around Us

› Making Forms with Clay and Paper in 3-D

• Colour — 9 classes

› PEEPING OUT OF THE WINDOW — part 2

› PEEPING OUT OF THE WINDOW — part 3

› Changing the Typical Picture — part 2

› Changing the Typical Picture — part 3

› Nature’s Palette — part 1

› Nature’s Palette — part 2

› Colour: the colour wheel

› Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colours

› Warm and Cool Colours in Nature and Painting

• Texture — 5 classes

› Texture and Space

› Feeling and Describing Textures: Rough, Smooth, Soft and Hard

› Rubbings and Collage to Create Texture

› Showing Texture in Drawing and Painting

› Texture in Nature: Bark, Fur, Feathers and Sand

• Composition — 5 classes

› What Is Visual Composition: Realistic, Abstract and Layout

› Creating a Four-Part Comic Strip

› Thematic Painting and Group Collage

› Nature’s Palette — part 4

› Landscape and Seascape Composition

• Tools & Techniques — 6 classes

› Pencils, Charcoal and Crayons: Drawing Tools

› Brushes, Paints and Palettes: Painting Tools

› Printing Techniques: Block and Leaf Printing

› Paper Craft: Cutting, Folding and Pasting

› Clay Modelling Techniques

› Experimenting and Choosing the Right Tool

• Art (Visual Arts) Vocabulary — 7 classes

› Point and Line

› Shape and Form

› Colour Schemes and Mood

› Tone: light, shade and the tonal scale

› From Elements to Principles

› Words for Hues, Shades and Tints

› Vocabulary of Tools, Materials and Mediums

• Responding to the Artefacts and Nature — 4 classes

› Finding Beauty in Nature

› Looking at Handmade Artefacts and Crafts

› Responding to Monuments and Architecture

› Talking and Writing About a Work of Art

• Perspective — 5 classes

› PEOPLE IN PLACES — part 1

› PEOPLE IN PLACES — part 2

› Perspective Techniques: Linear and Aerial

› Analysing and Using Perspective

› Near and Far: Overlapping and Size in a Scene

Biology

5 chapters · 61 classes

• Tissue — 13 classes

› What a Tissue Is, and Why Plants and Animals Differ

› Apical Meristem: How Plants Grow Longer

› Lateral and Intercalary Meristems

› Meristematic Cells, and Differentiation

› Epidermis: The Plant's Outer Defence

› Parenchyma, Collenchyma and Sclerenchyma

› Xylem, Phloem and the Three Tissue Systems

› Epithelial Tissue

› Connective Tissue I: Blood

› Connective Tissue II: Bone, Cartilage, Tendon and Ligament

› Muscular Tissue: Three Kinds of Movement

› Nervous Tissue

› 2.2 Levels of Organisation: Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism

• Kingdom Classification — 17 classes

› The Need for Classification

› Classification Systems Over Time

› Kingdom Plantae: Thallophyta and Bryophyta

› Pteridophyta

› Gymnosperms and Angiosperms

› Comparing the Plant Groups

› Kingdom Animalia and the Notochord

› Porifera and Cnidaria

› Platyhelminthes and Nematoda

› Annelida and Arthropoda

› Mollusca and Echinodermata

› Protochordates, Vertebrates and Their Adaptations

› Diversity in the Living World — part 4

› The Criteria of the Five Kingdoms

› Kingdom Monera

› Kingdom Fungi

› Beyond Five Kingdoms: Three Domains, and Viruses

• Plant Life — 19 classes

› Activity 10.1: Listing What Is Living and What Is Not

› Movement: Cars, Drosera and Climbing Plants

› Growth, Food, and Breathing: The Stomata on a Leaf

› Excretion, and Responding to a Stimulus

› Reproduction, and What It Means to Be Dead

› The Eight Characteristics Together, and Is a Seed Living?

› 10.1 How Do Plants Grow? Four Guesses, and Activity 10.1 (Fig. 10.1)

› The Vrikshayurveda, 10.2.1 Leaves as Food Factories, and Activity 10.2 (Fig. 10.2a)

› The Iodine Test on a Leaf (Fig. 10.2b), Why We Decolourise It, and Activity 10.3

› Table 10.2: Starch in the Green and Non-green Patches, and Coloured Leaves

› Chlorophyll Is Essential, and 10.2.2 Activity 10.4: The Role of Air (Fig. 10.3a)

› Table 10.3, and the Definition of Photosynthesis

› Activity 10.5: The Gas That Bubbles Up (Fig. 10.4)

› 10.2.3 Photosynthesis in a Nutshell (Fig. 10.5), and R.H. Dastur

› Activity 10.6: Finding the Stomata (Fig. 10.6), and 10.3.1 Transport of Water

› Activity 10.7: Red Ink Up a Stem (Fig. 10.7), the Xylem and the Phloem (Fig. 10.8)

› 10.4 Do Plants Respire? Activity 10.8 and the Lime Water Test (Fig. 10.9)

› The Life Cycle of a Bean Plant

› Reproduction, and Asexual Reproduction in Plants

• Human Body — 7 classes

› Why the Body Needs to Remove Waste

› The Excretory System and Its Organs

› The Kidneys and How Urine Is Formed

› Keeping the Excretory System Healthy

› The Nervous System: Brain, Spinal Cord and Nerves

› Neurons and How Messages Travel

› Reflex Actions and Voluntary Actions

• Health and Hygiene — 5 classes

› What an Allergy Is and Why the Body Reacts

› Common Allergens in the Environment

› Symptoms of Allergic Reactions

› Preventing and Managing Allergies

› Hygiene Habits That Reduce Allergic Reactions

Chemistry

7 chapters · 93 classes

• Matter and its Composition — 19 classes

› Materials Around Us — part 7

› Materials Around Us — part 8

› A Journey through States of Water — part 1

› A Journey through States of Water — part 5

› Grinding Without End: What a Constituent Particle Is

› Activity 7.2: Where the Sugar Goes (Fig. 7.2), and Interparticle Spaces

› 7.2 Interparticle Attractions, and Acharya Kanad's Parmanu

› 7.2.1 The Solid State: Activity 7.3 (Fig. 7.3) and the Melting Pictures of Fig. 7.4

› What a Melting Point Is, the Odd Case of Ice, and Table 7.1

› 7.2.2 The Liquid State: Activity 7.4 and the Three Containers of Fig. 7.5

› A Finger Through Water (Fig. 7.6), the Boiling Point, and Why Spilled Water Disappears

› 7.2.3 The Gaseous State: Activity 7.5 and the Two Gas Jars of Fig. 7.7

› Why Gases Fill Everything: the Iodine Version (Fig. 7.8), and What a Fluid Is

› 7.3 Activity 7.6: The Syringe (Fig. 7.9), and Why Water Will Not Compress

› Activity 7.7: Three Water Levels A, B and C (Fig. 7.10), and Where the Sugar Sits (Fig. 7.11)

› 7.4 Activity 7.8: Potassium Permanganate Spreading Through Water (Fig. 7.13)

› Thermal Energy Decides the State, and the 'Let Us Wrap Up!' Table

› Snapshots, and Keep the Curiosity Alive: Questions 1 and 2(i) to 2(iv)

› Materials Around Us — part 6

• Physical and Chemical Changes — 12 classes

› Four Students, Four Changes: the Ice, the Bottle, the Bud and the Banana

› Activity 5.1 and Table 5.1: Eleven Everyday Changes, and the Senses That Notice Them

› 5.1 Physical Change: Activity 5.2 with Paper, a Balloon and Chalk (Fig. 5.1)

› 5.2 Chemical Change: Activity 5.3, Blowing into Tap Water and Lime Water (Fig. 5.2)

› The Chemical Equation, and Activity 5.4: Vinegar and Baking Soda (Fig. 5.3)

› 5.3.1 Rusting and 5.3.2 Combustion: Activity 5.5 and the Covered Candle (Figs. 5.4, 5.5, 5.6)

› Why the Covered Candle Goes Out, the Blanket Rule, and the Fireflies

› Activity 5.6: Ignition Temperature and the Fire Triangle (Figs. 5.7, 5.8)

› Activity 5.7: What Happens When a Candle Burns, and Faraday's Lectures (Fig. 5.9)

› 5.5 Are Changes Permanent? Activity 5.8 and Table 5.2, and 5.6 Desirable Changes

› Undesirable Changes, Compost and Pollution, and 5.7.1 Weathering of Rocks (Fig. 5.10)

› 5.7.2 Erosion, and In a Nutshell

• Elements, Compounds and Mixtures — 21 classes

› Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 1

› Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 2

› Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 3

› Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 4

› Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 5

› Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 6

› Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 7

› Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 8

› Methods of Separation in Everyday Life — part 9

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 1

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 2

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 3

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 4

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 5

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 6

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 7

› Nature of Matter : and Mixtures — part 8

› Chapter 8 Review: Questions on Separation Techniques

› Elements and Compounds: How They Differ

› Mixtures: Homogeneous and Heterogeneous

› Mixtures Versus Compounds

• Atomic Structure — 13 classes

› Thomson and the Electron

› Testing Thomson: The Gold Foil Experiment

› Rutherford's Nuclear Model

› Bohr's Model of the Atom

› The Neutron, and What Gives an Atom Its Mass

› Symbols of Elements

› Atomic Number and Mass Number

› How Electrons Fill the Shells

› Valency

› Dalton's Atomic Theory

› How Atoms Combine: The Covalent Bond

› Zooming In: Particles, Elements, Compounds, Mixtures, and Solutions

› Covalent Bonds in Molecules of Compounds

• Language of Chemistry — 6 classes

› Naming Covalent Compounds

› Naming Ions and Ionic Compounds

› Writing Chemical Formulae

› Symbols of Elements and Why Chemists Use Them

› Formulae of Common Compounds

› Radicals and Combining Them to Write Formulae

• Metals and Non-Metals — 14 classes

› Sudarshan Uncle's Workshop: What an Ironsmith Makes, and From What (Fig. 4.1)

› 4.1.1 Malleability: Activity 4.1 and Table 4.1 (Fig. 4.2)

› Brittle, and Neither: Iron and the Progress of Civilisation, and 4.1.2 Ductility

› 4.1.3 Sonority: Steel Ropes, Suspension Bridges, and Activity 4.2

› The Ringing Sound, and 4.1.4 Conduction of Heat: Activity 4.3 (Fig. 4.3)

› Conduction, Conductors, and 4.1.5 Conduction of Electricity: Activity 4.4

› Table 4.2 and the Pattern in It, then 4.2 The Question About Brown Deposits

› Activity 4.5: Three Bottles A, B and C, and Table 4.3 (Fig. 4.4)

› Rust, Rusting and Corrosion, and the Iron Pillar of Delhi

› 4.3 Burning Magnesium: Activity 4.6 and a Basic Oxide (Figs. 4.5, 4.6)

› Sodium Kept Under Kerosene, and 4.4 Activity 4.7: Burning Sulfur (Fig. 4.7a, b, c)

› Sulfurous Acid, Activity 4.8, and What a Non-metal Is (Fig. 4.7d)

› 4.5 Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Chlorine and Iodine, and In a Nutshell

› Let Us Enhance Our Learning: Questions 1 to 6

• Air and Atmosphere — 8 classes

› Nature’s Treasures — part 2

› The Atmosphere and Its Layers

› The Nitrogen Cycle

› The Oxygen Cycle

› Gases That Make Up Air and Their Proportions

› Properties and Uses of Oxygen

› Properties and Uses of Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide

› Air Pollution and Keeping Air Clean

Computer Studies

7 chapters · 59 classes

• Computer - Hardware Components — 15 classes

› 1.1 Identify and Describe Basic Hardware Components

› 1.2 Explore the Functions of Input Devices

› 1.3 Examine Output Devices and Their Uses

› 1.4 Understand Storage Devices and Their Capacity

› 1.5 Investigate Peripheral Connectivity Options

› What a Computer Is: Characteristics and Limitations

› Hardware, Software and the Input-Process-Output Cycle

› Inside the Computer: CPU and Memory

› Input Devices: The Keyboard and Pointing Devices

› Input Devices: Scanners, Readers, Microphone and Cameras

› Output Devices: Monitors and Speakers

› Output Devices: Printers and Plotters

› Storage Devices and Units of Memory

› 1.6 Apply Knowledge to Assemble a Basic Computer Setup

› What Software Is and How We Talk to a Computer

• Number System – An Introduction — 6 classes

› Number Systems in Daily Life: Why Computers Use Binary

› The Decimal Number System and Place Value

› The Binary Number System: Bits and Powers of Two

› Converting Decimal Numbers to Binary

› Converting Binary Numbers to Decimal

› Octal and Hexadecimal Number Systems: An Introduction

• Computer Virus — 4 classes

› Threats and Response: Malware, Bullying, Stalking and Reporting

› Viruses, Malware and Adware, and How to Protect Against Them

› Types of Computer Viruses: File, Boot Sector, Macro, Worms and Trojans

› Choosing, Installing and Updating an Antivirus Program

• Ethics and Safety Measures in Computing — 8 classes

› 5.2 Explore the Basics of Internet Safety Principles

› 5.3 Identify Common Online Threats and Risks

› 5.4 Develop Strong Passwords and Account Security Practices

› 5.6 Create a Personal Digital Safety Plan

› 1.5 Navigate the Internet Safely and Effectively

› Computer Ethics: Copyright, Plagiarism and Respect for Others' Work

› Netiquette: Polite and Responsible Behaviour Online

› Hacking, Firewalls and Keeping a Computer Safe

• Spreadsheets - An Introduction — 14 classes

› 4.1 Introduction to Excel: Navigating the Interface

› 4.2 Entering and Formatting Data in Cells

› 4.3 Creating Basic Formulas and Functions

› 4.4 Utilizing Charts and Graphs for Data Visualization

› 4.3 Data Management: Introduction to Excel Workbook Basics

› 4.4 Entering Data: Creating and Formatting Your First Excel Spreadsheet

› Spreadsheets, Worksheets and Workbooks

› Entering Numbers, Text, Dates and Series

› Editing and Formatting a Worksheet

› Inserting, Deleting and Writing Formulas

› Functions: SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN and IF

› Charts and Printing a Worksheet

› What a spreadsheet is, and what Calc can do

› Rows, columns, cells and the active cell

• Database and DBMS – An Introduction — 6 classes

› What a Database Is: Tables, Records and Fields

› What a DBMS Does: Create, Update, Retrieve and Manage Data

› Creating a Simple Database Table

› Entering, Editing and Sorting Records

› Designing Simple Queries to Find Data

› Reports and Everyday Uses of Databases

• HTML – Advanced Features — 6 classes

› Revisiting Basic HTML Tags and Page Structure

› Ordered and Unordered Lists in HTML

› Adding Images to a Web Page

› Creating Links Between Web Pages

› Building Tables in HTML

› Creating Forms with Text Boxes, Buttons and Choices

English

5 chapters · 78 classes

• Listening and Speaking — 31 classes

› Listen and Respond

› Speaking Activity

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› Listen and Respond and Speaking Activity

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› Speaking Activity and Writing Task

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› Speaking Activity and Writing Task

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• Reading — 23 classes

› Reading for Meaning

› Reading for Appreciation

› Reading for Meaning — Part I

› Reading for Meaning — Part II

› Reading for Meaning — Part III

› Reading for Appreciation

› Reading for Meaning — Part I

› Reading for Meaning — Parts II and III

› Reading for Appreciation

› Reading for Meaning — Part I

› Reading for Meaning — Part II

› Reading for Appreciation

› Reading for Meaning

› Reading for Appreciation

› Reading for Meaning — Part I

› Reading for Meaning — Part II

› Check Your Understanding and Critical Reflection

› Reading for Appreciation

› Reading for Meaning — Part I

› Reading for Meaning — Part II

› Check Your Understanding and Critical Reflection

› Reading for Appreciation

› Tom Sawyer and the Pain-killer: Reading and Comprehension

• Writing — 5 classes

› Writing a Story: Beginning, Middle and End

› Describing People, Places and Events with Vivid Words

› Writing Poems: Rhyme, Rhythm and Imagery

› Anecdotal Records and Personal Narratives

› Planning, Drafting and Improving What You Write

• Grammar and Vocabulary in Context — 15 classes