On this page you'll find unit overviews, material lists, NGSS bundles, and more.


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.

Learn about Mi-STAR's scope and sequence guidance for districts and administrators.
Guidance for place-based learning with Mi-STAR Units

 

UNIT
 

         PEs        
 

   MATERIALS LIST  
 6.1The Water Cycle 
Water on the Move
 enhanced unit now available! 
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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! 
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 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
 enhanced unit now available! 
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 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! 
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 MS-PS2-1
MS-PS2-2
MS-ETS1-1*
 6.4 materials
 
6.5: The Factors that Influence Individual Growth
Grow Baby Grow
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 MS-LS1-5
MS-LS2-1
 6.5 materials
 
6.6Population Growth and Ecological Interactions
Failing Fishermen
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 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?!
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 MS-LS1-6
MS-LS2-3
 6.7 materials
7.1: Energy and Energy Transformations
Off-the-Grid Gaming
 enhanced unit now available! 
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 MS-PS2-3
MS-PS3-1
MS-PS3-2
MS-PS3-5
 
 7.1 materials

7.2A: Characterizing Volcanoes and their Impacts
Volcano Vacations
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7.2B: Earth's Dynamic Surface
Michigan's Shoreline

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 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! 

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 MS-PS3-3
MS-PS3-4
MS-ETS1-4
 
7.3 materials
 
7.4Life of Materials
The Stuff We Use and Where it Comes From
 enhanced unit now available! 
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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! 
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 MS-PS1-1
MS-ESS3-1
MS-ESS3-3*
MS-ESS3-4
 7.5 materials
7.6: What Determines Our Traits?
The Popsicle Vandal
 enhanced unit now available! 
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 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! 

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   MS-LS3-1* 
MS-LS4-4
MS-LS4-6
 8.1 materials
 
Unit 8.2: Fossils, Rocks, and Change
Found Fossils
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 MS-LS4-1
MS-LS4-2
MS-ESS1-4
 8.2 materials
 
8.3: Sound & Light
Ride the Waves!
 enhanced unit now available! 

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 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! 
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 MS-ESS1-2
MS-ESS1-3
MS-PS2-4
 8.4 materials
8.5A: Regional Climate
Home Away From Home
 enhanced unit now available! 

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8.5B: Weather 
Statewide Snow Day Policy?!

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 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
 enhanced unit now available! 
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 MS-ESS3-2
MS-ESS2-3
 8.6 materials


8.7: Global Climate Change
Living in Greenhouse Earth
 enhanced unit now available! 
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MS-ESS3-4
MS-ESS3-5
 8.7 materials
*All PEs other than those marked with (*) thoroughly addressed in units.
 

 

 
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