On this page you'll find unit overviews, material lists, NGSS bundles, and more.
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Mi-STAR has 22 middle school units available for teachers who complete our professional learning pathway.
Unit kits and workbooks are now available for order through Kendall Hunt.
Contact Sarah Zenner at sczenner@kendallhunt.com for more information or to place an order.
Unit kits and workbooks are now available for order through Kendall Hunt.
Contact Sarah Zenner at sczenner@kendallhunt.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 all units now enhanced! | PEs | MATERIALS LIST | |||
.jpg) | 6.1: The Water Cycle
Water on the Move 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 More information / public preview | MS-LS1-1
MS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-3 MS-ETS1-3 |
6.2 materials | ||
 | 6.3: Nutrition and the Chemistry of Digestion
You Are What You Eat 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 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 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 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-LS1-7 MS-LS2-3 | 6.7 materials | ||
 | 7.1: Energy and Energy Transformations
Off-the-Grid Gaming More information / public preview | MS-PS2-3
MS-PS3-1 MS-PS3-2 MS-PS3-5 | 7.1 materials | ||
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7.2A: Characterizing Volcanoes and their Impacts Volcano Vacations More information / public preview 7.2B: The Rock Cycle Where Did Our Beach Go? More information / public preview | MS-ESS2-1
MS-ESS2-2 MS-ESS2-3 MS-ESS3-2 | 7.2A materials
7.2B materials | ||
.jpg) | 7.3: Moving Thermal Energy Cooling Hot Dogs 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 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? More information / public preview | MS-PS1-1
MS-ESS3-1 MS-ESS3-3* MS-ESS3-4 | 7.5 materials | ||
.jpg) | 7.6: What Determines Our Traits?
The Popsicle Vandal More information / public preview | MS-LS3-1
MS-LS3-2 MS-LS4-5 | 7.6 materials | ||
.jpg) | 8.1: Adaptation and Natural Selection
Bugs in the Beds!? 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
Found 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! 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 More information / public preview | MS-ESS1-2
MS-ESS1-3 MS-PS2-4 | 8.4 materials | ||
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 | 8.5A: Regional Climate
Home Away From Home More information / public preview 8.5B: Weather And Snow It Begins 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 When Nature Strikes More information / public preview | MS-ESS3-2
MS-ESS2-3 | 8.6 materials | ||
 | 8.7: Global Climate Change Living in Greenhouse Earth More information / public preview | MS-ESS3-4 MS-ESS3-5 | 8.7 materials |
*All PEs other than those marked with (*) thoroughly addressed in units.
