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Mi-STAR has 22 middle school units available for teachers who complete our professional learning pathway.
Unit kits and materials are available for order through Nasco Education. Contact Nasco at Mi-STAR@nascoeducation.com for more information or to place an order.
Unit kits and materials are available for order through Nasco Education. Contact Nasco at Mi-STAR@nascoeducation.com for more information or to place an order.
Learn about Mi-STAR's scope and sequence guidance for districts and administrators.
Guidance for place-based learning with Mi-STAR Units
Guidance for place-based learning with Mi-STAR Units
UNIT | PEs | MATERIALS LIST | |||
6.1: The Water Cycle
Water on the Move enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview |
MS-ESS2-4 MS-PS1-4 MS-ETS1-1* | 6.1 materials | |||
6.2: Investigating and Modeling Body Systems
The RAD Disease enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview | MS-LS1-1
MS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-3 MS-ETS1-3 |
6.2 materials | |||
6.3: Chemical Processes in Organism Digestion
Food Gives Us Energy More information / public preview | MS-LS1-7
MS-PS1-2 MS-PS1-5 MS-PS1-6* | 6.3 materials | |||
6.4: Forces and Motion
Protect your Cell Phone enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview | MS-PS2-1
MS-PS2-2 MS-ETS1-1* | 6.4 materials
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6.5: The Factors that Influence Individual Growth
Grow Baby Grow enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview | MS-LS1-5
MS-LS2-1 | 6.5 materials
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6.6: Population Growth and Ecological Interactions
Failing Fishermen enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview | MS-LS2-1
MS-LS2-2 MS-LS2-4 MS-ETS1-2 | 6.6 materials | |||
6.7: Cycling of Energy and Matter Through Food Webs
Eat Your Garbage?! More information / public preview | MS-LS1-6
MS-LS2-3 | 6.7 materials | |||
7.1: Energy and Energy Transformations
Off-the-Grid Gaming enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview | MS-PS2-3
MS-PS3-1 MS-PS3-2 MS-PS3-5 | 7.1 materials | |||
7.2A: Characterizing Volcanoes and their Impacts Volcano Vacations enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview 7.2B: Earth's Dynamic Surface Michigan's Shoreline More information / public preview | MS-ESS2-1
MS-ESS2-2 MS-ESS2-3 MS-ESS3-2 | 7.2A materials
7.2B materials | |||
7.3: Moving Thermal Energy Cooling Hot Dogs enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview | MS-PS3-3
MS-PS3-4 MS-ETS1-4 |
7.3 materials | |||
7.4: Life of Materials
The Stuff We Use and Where it Comes From enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview |
MS-PS1-3 MS-ESS3-1 MS-ESS3-4 | 7.4 materials | |||
Unit 7.5: Protecting Our Drinking Water Resources
What's in YOUR water? enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview | MS-PS1-1
MS-ESS3-1 MS-ESS3-3* MS-ESS3-4 | 7.5 materials | |||
7.6: Inheritance of Traits
The Popsicle Vandal More information / public preview | MS-LS3-1
MS-LS3-2 MS-LS4-5 | 7.6 materials | |||
8.1: Adaptation and Natural Selection
Bugs in the Beds!? enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview | MS-LS3-1*
MS-LS4-4 MS-LS4-6 | 8.1 materials
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Unit 8.2: Fossils, Rocks and Change
Figuring Out Fossils More information / public preview | MS-LS4-1
MS-LS4-2 MS-ESS1-4 | 8.2 materials
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8.3: Sound & Light
Ride the Waves! enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview | MS-PS4-1
MS-PS4-2 MS-LS1-8 | 8.3 materials | |||
8.4: Force of Gravity in Solar System Motions
Plotting a Cosmic Collision Course enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview | MS-ESS1-2
MS-ESS1-3 MS-PS2-4 | 8.4 materials | |||
8.5A: Regional Climate
Home Away From Home enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview 8.5B: Weather Statewide Snow Day Policy?! More information / public preview | MS-ESS1-1
MS-ESS2-5 MS-ESS2-6 | 8.5A materials
8.5B materials | |||
8.6: Reducing the Impact of
Natural Hazards Playing it Safe More information / public preview | MS-ESS3-2
MS-ESS2-3 | 8.6 materials | |||
8.7: Global Climate Change Living in Greenhouse Earth enhanced unit now available! More information / public preview | MS-ESS3-4 MS-ESS3-5 | 8.7 materials |
*All PEs other than those marked with (*) thoroughly addressed in units.