Mississippi Science HAP.7.1
The Standard
- HAP.7
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of the major organs of the endocrine system and the associated hormonal production and regulation.
Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to illustrate that the endocrine glands secrete hormones that help the body maintain homeostasis through feedback mechanisms.
2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Endocrine System
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use a reading and a blood glucose graph to trace how a gland releases a hormone when conditions change. They check whether the evidence supports a claim, then draw how the hormone's effects bring glucose back toward its usual range.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can label a diagram with the pancreas, insulin, target cells, and the change in blood glucose after a meal. They can use graph evidence to explain why insulin release slows as glucose returns to its usual range.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think hormones travel through nerves or act on every cell. They may say insulin raises blood glucose, or that the pancreas keeps releasing the same amount after glucose returns to its usual range.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: After a meal, blood glucose rises. Name the gland and hormone, draw arrows showing what happens at target cells, and explain why hormone release slows.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Use beads as blood glucose; move them from a blood cup into labeled muscle and liver cups when an insulin card appears.
Post two insulin claims, one accurate and one reversed; have students cite a blood glucose graph to identify which claim fits.
Play feedback relay: teams draw a trigger card, then place gland, hormone, target, and response cards in order before explaining the loop.
Show a sample glucose monitor trace after lunch; ask students to mark where insulin release likely rises and where it slows.
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- HAP.7
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the major organs of the endocrine system and the associated hormonal production and regulation.
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Discuss the function of each endocrine gland and the various hormones secreted.
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