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 kits and materials are available for order through Nasco Education.
Contact Nasco for more information or to place an order
Contact Nasco for more information or to place an order
UNIT | LENGTH | PEs | MATERIALS LIST Nasco Kits & Materials | |||
.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 available now in 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 | 8.5A materials
8.5B materials | ||
 | 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.
