Mi-STAR has 22 middle school units available for teachers who complete our professional learning pathway.
Three enhanced units will be available for the 2021-22 school year.
UNIT | LENGTH | PEs | MATERIALS LIST | |||
.jpg) | 6.1: The Water Cycle
Water on the Move More information / public preview | 4-5 weeks |
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 | 7 weeks | 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 | 7 weeks | 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 | 7 weeks | MS-PS2-1
MS-PS2-2 MS-ETS1-1* | 6.4 materials^
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 | 6.5: What Plants Need to Grow
Keeping it Fresh More information / public preview | 6 weeks | MS-LS1-5
MS-LS2-1* | 6.5 materials^
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 | 6.6: Interactions within Ecosystems
The Tangled Web We Weave *enhanced unit coming soon for beta test More information / public preview | 5-6 weeks | 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 | 5-6 weeks | MS-LS1-6
MS-LS2-3 | 6.7 materials^ | ||
 | 7.1: Off-the-Grid Gaming
*enhanced unit available now in beta test More information / public preview | 5-6 weeks | MS-PS2-3
MS-PS3-1 MS-PS3-2 MS-PS3-5 | 7.1 materials^ | ||
 | 7.2A: Volcanoes
Volcano Vacations! More information / public preview 7.2B: Earth's Dynamic Surface Michigan's Shoreline More information / public preview | 5-6 weeks
4 weeks | MS-ESS2-1
MS-ESS2-2 MS-ESS2-3* | 7.2A materials^
7.2B materials | ||
.jpg) | 7.3: Moving Thermal Energy Cooling Hot Dogs More information / public preview | 7 weeks | MS-PS3-3
MS-PS3-4 MS-ETS1-4 |
7.3 materials^ | ||
 | 7.4: Life Cycle of Building Materials
The Stuff We Use and Where it Comes From More information / public preview | 5-6 weeks |
MS-PS1-3 MS-ESS3-1 MS-ESS3-4* MS-PS3-3* | 7.4 materials^ | ||
 | Unit 7.5: Our Drinking Water Resources
What's in YOUR water? More information / public preview | 7-8 weeks | 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 | 5-6 weeks | MS-LS3-1
MS-LS3-2 MS-LS4-5 | 7.6 materials^ | ||
.jpg) | 8.1: Bugs in the Beds?!
*enhanced unit available now in beta test More information / public preview | 4-6 weeks | MS-LS3-1*
MS-LS4-4 MS-LS4-6 | 8.1 materials^
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 | Unit 8.2: Fossils, Rocks and Change
More information / public preview |
4-6 weeks | MS-LS4-1
MS-LS4-2 MS-ESS1-4 | 8.2 materials
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 | 8.3: Brain Waves
How Sound and Light Feed Our Senses More information / public preview | 7 weeks | MS-PS4-1
MS-PS4-2 MS-LS1-8 | 8.3 materials^ | ||
.jpeg) | 8.4: Force of Gravity in Solar System Motions
Plotting a Cosmic Collision Course More information / public preview | 6-7 weeks | MS-ESS1-2
MS-ESS1-3 MS-PS-4 | 8.4 materials | ||
.jpg) | 8.5A: Regional Climate
World-Wide Foods (WWF) Organic Farmers 8.5B: Weather Statewide Snow Day Policy?! More information / public preview | 7-8 weeks | MS-ESS1-1
MS-ESS2-5 MS-ESS2-6 | 8.5 materials^
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 | 8.6: Reducing the Impact of
Natural Hazards More information / public preview | 5-6 weeks | MS-ESS3-2
MS-ESS2-3 | 8.6 materials^ | ||
 | 8.7: Global Climate Change Living in Greenhouse Earth More information / public preview | 4-5 weeks | MS-ESS3-4 MS-ESS3-5 | 8.7 materials^ |
*All PEs other than those marked with (*) thoroughly addressed in units.
