Mississippi Science HAP.3.1

ScienceGrades 9–12Human Anatomy and Physiology

The Standard

HAP.3: Students will investigate the structures and functions of the integumentary system, including the cause and effect of diseases and disorders.

Identify structures and explain the functions of the integumentary system, including layers of skin, accessory structures, and types of membranes.

2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Integumentary System

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students label the epidermis, dermis, and tissue beneath the skin. They identify hair, nails, sweat glands, and oil glands, and explain what each does. They also locate four body membranes and describe their jobs.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can label an unfamiliar skin diagram and explain how sweat cools the body and oil helps keep skin from drying out. They can match cutaneous, mucous, serous, and synovial membranes to the skin, mouth, lung lining, and knee joint, and explain each lining's job.
Common Misconceptions: Students may put blood vessels in the epidermis, though they are in the dermis. They may call the tissue beneath the skin a skin layer or mix up sweat and oil glands. Some think every membrane covers an outside surface.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Label the epidermis, dermis, tissue beneath the skin, and one gland on a skin sketch, then state the gland's job. Match cutaneous, mucous, serous, and synovial membranes to outer skin, mouth, lung lining, and knee joint.

Lesson moves

Use colored clay to build a skin cross-section with epidermis, dermis, fat, a hair follicle, and sweat and oil glands; add function tags.
Ask students to explain why a shallow scrape may not bleed but a deeper cut does, using the locations of skin layers and blood vessels.
Play a matching game with membrane cards and location cards for outer skin, mouth, lung lining, and knee joint.
Show a sunscreen label and ask students which skin layer UV rays reach first and how that layer helps protect the body.

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