Anchored Science Unit 6.2: Investigating & Modeling Body Systems Student 1 Year License

Anchored Science by Mi-STAR is a comprehensive middle school science curriculum driven by a bold vision for the future, where science isn’t just a subject but a powerful, integrated body of knowledge that equips students to tackle today’s pressing societal challenges. This curriculum harnesses the full potential of the Next Generation Science Standards, empowering students to actively engage with science and engineering practices. They’ll move beyond the classroom, using their skills to solve real-world problems, making learning both impactful and deeply relevant to their lives and the world around them.

Each unit delivers a NGSS-aligned assessment package that fully integrates tools to measure student progress and deepen their engagement with science. The Professional Learning program provides a dynamic range of flexible, ongoing opportunities, enabling teachers to not only master the unit content but also continually enhance their skills, while motivating and challenging their students.

Unit 6.2: Investigating and Modeling Body Systems “The RAD Disease”

In this unit, students address the problem of emerging diseases by learning of a fictitious outbreak within their school. As students progress through the unit, they identify the illness, construct explanations about how it affects organ systems and their subsystems, and design an informational campaign to prevent a future outbreak.

Unit Challenge Questions: How do germs make us sick?; How do we keep sicknesses from spreading?

Included with this purchase is a 1 year license to access the Student ebook and digital resources through our online platform, Flourish. The printed Student Workbook is sold separately.