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Family and Consumer Sciences Education
 
 
An Introduction to Vitamins, Minerals, and Water
Students will learn to select the functions and sources of vitamins, minerals, and water based on that day's lecture. Secondary level.
 
Balancing a Checkbook
Students learn to balance their checkbooks based on a fictional situation. Secondary.
 
Bathing a Newborn
Students will learn to demonstrate the proper techniques for sponge and tub bathing an infant. secondary level.
 
Career Research Project
Students identify a career of interest, research it, interview someone currently employed in that position, shadow someone currently employed in that position, and create a brochure or presentation. Secondary.
 
Child Development
students will learn to identify characteristics of the four types of development, for the exam at the end of the unit. Secondary level.
 
Create A Cookbook
Students review cookbooks and then create their own. Secondary.
 
Elton John, Mary Fisher and AIDS
Students use the Internet to learn more about AIDS. Secondary.
 
Food Budgets
Students create a realistic food budget for a hypothetical family and present findings to the class using visuals. Secondary.
 
Good Nutrition
Students review food advertising, the six classes of nutrients and their functions, identify nutrients found in a given list of foods, present an ad campaign, and lead discussion about slogans/jingles that emphasize nutritive values.
 
Income Statements & Balance Sheets
Given the criteria of a balance sheet and income statement, students will learn to calculate a married couple's finances according to the Internal Revenue Services. Seconary level.
 
Interpreting Labels
Students will learn to recognize care label universal characters, and interpret proper care of garments. Secondary level.
 
Proper Clothing and Accessories for a Job Interview
Students learn the importance of proper dress for an interview, through interview role-plays with emphasis on proper dress and sitting properly. Secondary.
 
Structures and Roles of Families
Students will compare their ideas of a family with that of the lecture by doing an oral review. Secondary level.
 
Studying Checks
Students learn how to write and record checks. Secondary.
 
The Circle of Life/Native American Literature
The students read, listen, and interpret Native American Literature and learn to research and discuss both the creation of life and the circle of life. Secondary.
 
Tipping the Bank
Students learn how to deposit checks at the bank, including a payroll check and a personal check. Seconary.
 
Understanding Checking Accounts
Students learn about checking accounts. Secondary.
 
Using Aphorism to Help Dealing With People
Students analyze aphorisms and other positive self-esteem quotes to assist them in today’s personal and work world. Secondary.
 
Vocabulary Enrichment for the Workplace
Students analyze aphorisms and other positive self-esteem quotes to assist them in today’s personal and work world. Seconary.
 
What's In Your Burger?
Students use notation, rows/columns, basic matrix operations and in pairs work from an activity sheet and a McDonald’s Nutritional Guide (2001) to complete the questions on the activity sheet. Secondary.
 
What's in Your Burger Worksheet
Goes with What's in Your Burger?
 
Writing a Check
The learner will write a check to Radio Shack for the purchase of a new telephone battery. Secondary.
 
Yo! Gert—making yogurt
Introducing a yeast culture into milk mixture and allowing the yeast to reproduce produces yogurt.
 
Your job, company, and letters
tudents access and use a variety of sources to answer questions and support a position, then write cover letters, memos, plus persuasive, narrative, and descriptive letters. Secondary.
 
 
   
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