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 | PEs | MATERIALS LIST | |||
.jpg) | 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 | ||
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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 | ||
.jpg) | 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 | ||
.jpg) | 7.6: Inheritance of 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!? 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 | ||
.jpg) | 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.
