Mr Kugie's Curriculum

PURPOSE: Within this bundle, you will find 4 different products providing at least 10 hours of challenges in exploring Google Docs, Slides, Forms, and Sheets. With the new reality of distance learning and a computer-savvy next generation, training students to use the Google Suite is a worthwhile use of time. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ 30 increasingly difficult tasks at four levels for Google Docs ✏️ 34 increasingly difficult tasks at four levels for Google Slides ✏️ 16 increasingl

PURPOSE: This real-to-life, year-long simulation allows students to see what earning a paycheck feels like as well as many other life events we all run into concerning money: reoccurring bills, loans, second jobs, banking paperwork, and of course debt. Don’t just print out classroom dollars for your students to shuffle around – using my guide they will set up a checking account, fill out bank deposit slips, complete job applications, balance a checkbook and so much more. Every single piece of “g

PURPOSE: If you download this .zip file, you will have 11 weeks worth of an in-depth study into the foundations of the English language. Help your students hone their skills of morphology to unlock a new world discovering our language. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ 11 weeks of Greek and Latin Roots (110 total math-related roots) to study ✏️ 11 weekly quizzes applying the roots in a variety of vocabulary contexts ✏️ Printable sorting activity using all the roots and common word ending

PURPOSE: This graphic organizer is a great way to structure a discussion surrounding themes, motifs, and symbols. This also works great as a note taking page or introduction to how to find these literary devices and messages within a text. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ A 1 page graphic organizer STORY:While in my student teaching semester, I talked with my mentor teacher about how we wished we had one concise page that held information containing themes and symbols. Thus, this page w

PURPOSE: Within this bundle, you will find 13 of my most popular math activities. Some of these activities are best fitting for 6th grade and some fit best in 7th grade, or you could choose to challenge 5th graders with these concepts. The choice is yours of how and when to use them. These activities cover the concepts of: fractions, decimals, percents, ratios, rates, volume, adding and subtracting integers, speed, estimation, algebra, equations, graphs, and tables. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product

PURPOSE: This simulation gives your math class a chance to experience what it is like to be an adult. Students will be randomly assigned a job and a family and be required to calculate a month’s worth of expenses. This activity brings up some great discussions about how money works, what happens when the money runs out, single parenting, managing a budget and so much more. This is such a useful resource for the modern middle school mathematics teacher! WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ 1

PURPOSE: This activity provides students with four levels of challenges in Google Slides. It is designed as a self-paced set of tasks to be completed through exploration of the program. Not only will students be problem solving to figure out the tasks, they will also be developing skills in using the Google Suite along the way. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ 17 increasingly difficult tasks at four levels for Google Slides ✏️ 17 bonus challenges designed to push students to discover al

PURPOSE: Use this worksheet to help your students practice 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication. This worksheet helps students connect the partial products that are found in the box (area) method and the standard algorithm. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ A 1-page graphic organizer ✏️ An assignable Easel worksheet STORY:Due to its more conceptual nature, the box method is often a lot easier for students to connect with initially. From there, it benefits them greatly to connect the part

PURPOSE: This activity uses an online interactive website ( Ecology Lab Tool) to simulate the interactions of different species within an ecosystem. It is such a cool resource that lets students explore what would happen in a hypothetical habitat so that they can understand interdependence, carrying capacity, population growth, and extinction. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ A 2-page worksheet which guides learners to use the Ecology Lab Tool and asks them targeted questions to conside

PURPOSE: Use this activity to guide your students through understanding how ratios may be used in real life. Your students will be required to measure an image length and width with accuracy. Then they will use scale factors and ratios to create a grid on that image and scale the image up to 5 times the size. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ 3 pages of instructions for students to read and use ✏️ Printable Candy Bar Wrappers to Scale ✏️ Samples of Student Work ✏️ An assignable Easel a

PURPOSE: This activity provides students with four levels of challenges in Google Sheets. It is designed as a self-paced set of tasks to be completed through exploration of the program. Not only will students be problem solving to figure out the tasks, they will also be developing skills in using the Google Suite along the way. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ 24 increasingly difficult tasks at four levels for Google Sheets STORY:With the shift to reliance on distance learning in the pa

Elementary S.T.E.A.M. Extensions BundleAppropriate for grades 3-7 & Homeschool PURPOSE:These three transdisciplinary extension projects are the perfect addition to your regular math class curriculum! They were originally designed for higher-level and early-finishing students in mathematics! This set of extension projects (originally designed for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders respectively) were created in the hopes of getting students to see the interconnectivity between the subjects of math, scie

PURPOSE:This set of fifteen-minute math centers will provide your students with opportunities to experience the 5th grade math topics using writing, hands-on manipulatives, small group work, independent tasks, and technology. Extend your students’ understanding by devoting 75 minutes a week to math rotations that will stretch their thinking and further develop their problem solving skills. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ 29 weeks of center rotations (5 fifteen-minute rotations per week

PURPOSE: This 4-week unit plan will give you a great framework for a unit in discovering the secrets and science of Space. Using these resources, you'll debunk a few misconceptions about the cause of seasons, moon phases, distances between and sizes of planets, and the levels of our atmosphere. This unit plan offers multiple lessons involving great technological resources for conceptualizing the ideas. Inside this .zip file you will find a Read Me.pdf that will guide you through the 4 weeks of

PURPOSE: This game gives your classroom a gameshow look-a-like experience for reviewing vocabulary in Google Slides. A specific set of instructions turns the generally four person gameshow into a whole-class, two-team game. The format works great as a review game before a test or for practicing a list of new vocabulary words. A set of vocabulary passwords has been included as an example for a unit on alternative energy. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ A Google Slides file ✏️ A Sample s

PURPOSE: This product provides you with seven whole-group mathematical explorations into equivalence. They will manipulate, justify, and solve equations using a basic understanding of the following properties of mathematics, each of which is introduced within its own prompt so that you can show them the process of logically reasoning through each situation. Though these prompts represent systems of equations prompts that the standards don't expect them to fully understand until Algebra I, the nu

PURPOSE: This activity provides students with four levels of challenges in Google Docs. It is designed as a self-paced set of tasks to be completed through exploration of the program. Not only will students be problem solving to figure out the tasks, they will also be developing skills in using the Google Suite along the way. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ 30 increasingly difficult tasks at four levels for Google Docs STORY:With the shift to reliance on distance learning in the past y

PURPOSE: This activity provides students with fifteen different coding-related challenges in Google Sheets. It is designed as a self-paced set of tasks to be completed through exploration of the vast library of built-in functions within Google Sheets. Not only will students be problem solving to figure out the tasks, they will also be developing skills in using the Google Suite along the way. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ 15 increasingly difficult challenges using functions for Googl

Manufactured Goods World Economy Simulation Appropriate for grades 4-7 & Homeschool PURPOSE: This simulation will your class to take on the role of a world free market system to see what it is like to manufacture goods from raw materials in scenarios that happen in the real world. Students will have to learn to work together and spend their earned money wisely to maintain their place in the world market and keep revenue flowing in. WHAT’S INCLUDED: This product contains:          ☆How-to page

PURPOSE: Within this bundle, you will find 2 science unit plans designed for a sixth grade school year. The plans offer structure, teacher instructions, student handouts, engaging activities, pacing guides, rubrics, and assessments for 8 weeks of instruction in astronomy and chemistry. WHAT’S INCLUDED:This product contains: ✏️ 8 weeks of teachable content ✏️ 4 activities also sold in my store: Periodic Table Activities, Classroom Solar System Model, Sun Moon and Earth Hypothesis Practice, &