Musculoskeletal and Cardiovascular Systems - Middle School Science - FULL UNIT

Teach students about the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems by having students monitor their daily heart rates, participate in High Intensity Interval Training, complete an experiment to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in their breath, and create a short story about the life of a red blood cells! Students will complete notepages in their interactive science notebooks that cover topics such as an overview of the cardiovascular system, what are muscles, cellular respiration, and red blood cells.

This product contains assignments that lead students toward answering a guiding question via a Learning Target. Students accomplish this by completing digital Google Docs and Slides-based assignments and a Google Form formative quiz. They will also use assignments to collect data and add notes into a interactive science notebook. (In my classroom all students have a composition notebook for this purpose) 

This resource includes all of the tiered playlists that develop student's depth of knowledge through assignments that flow along the hierarchical structure of Blooms taxonomy. These playlists follows the Ski Slope Model of Teaching as a way to structure and communicate "where we are" in the unit of study. This resource includes all of the progressive playlists to develop students depth of knowledge in this topic. Those resources are, in order; (Green Circle), [Blue Square], <Black Diamond>, and <>Double Black Diamond<> playlists.

This resource contains materials which address aspects of the following Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS): NGSS.MS-LS1-1, NGSS.MS-LS1-2, NGSS.MS-LS1-3

*These resources have been used in a real-life middle school science classroom with real-life students in Colorado!