Family Consumer Sciences

Get your students organized with the Food for Today Interactive Student Notebook! Not only will your students be able to organize all their notes, assignments and handouts but their notebooks can be used to review for exams and as a portfolio. Interactive notebooks have been proven to increase students' comprehension, reading skills, and test scores. Make the subject of foods and nutrition personal by helping students apply what they are learning to their own life experiences and future desires

Get your students organized with the Nutrition Interactive Student Notebook! Not only will your students be able to organize all their notes, assignments and handouts but their notebooks can be used to review for exams and as a portfolio. Interactive notebooks have been proven to increase students' comprehension, reading skills, and test scores. Make the subject of nutrition personal by helping students apply what they are learning to their own life experiences and future desires. This 75 p

Get your students organized with the Child Development Interactive Student Notebook! Not only will your students be able to organize all their notes, assignments and handouts but their notebooks can be used to review for exams and as a portfolio. Interactive notebooks have been proven to increase students' comprehension, reading skills, and test scores. Make child development personal by helping students apply what they are learning to their own life experiences and future desires. This 56 pag

This is a 20 slide Babysitting Basics PowerPoint. Several slides contain links to YouTube videos on how to perform or determine if professional medical care is needed. There is a slide that contains scenarios and encourages class discussion on how to handle the situation based on what they just learned. There is also a babysitting organizer one page handout that can keep students organized by family with emergency information, instructions for meal and bedtimes, etc.

This is the final project for a high school interior design course. This project included the instructions, planning sheets, and a grading sheet. The project includes finding a floor plan online, furnishing, and planning the interior according to the elements & principles of design, traffic flow, principles of lighting, color schemes, window treatments, etc. This is a fun project for students but will take them a significant amount of time.

This Black Friday activity is a consumerism lesson with some basic economics, and consumer math packed into one great lesson! This real-world activity will give your students the tools they need to be a smart consumer on Black Friday and throughout the year. Black Friday PowerPoint Includes: • Price Discrimination • Black Friday Gimmicks (time restrictions, limited quantities, standing in lines, different features, rebates) • General Principles of Retail Black Friday Packet Activities Includ

This child development digital interactive notebook can be completed in Google Slides™. The notebook follows the textbook, The Developing Child by McGraw-Hill, ©2016 and is over 100 pages. Most child development textbooks cover the same material in slightly different orders. For this reason there is an entirely editable version of the notebook for the teacher. All student notebook pages have an editable text boxes and directions in the slide notes section. There are also sticky notes off to the

This package contains 11 activities involving gender differences, roles, and male –female relationships. There are 34 pages in addition to a survey results PowerPoint template. This course work was designed for high school seniors. Students absolutely love the course because they WANT to learn about the opposite sex. So as long as you feel comfortable with lots of classroom discussion, these activities should help you have some great conversations! Download the preview for more lengthy descrip

This lesson marries traditional consumerism with social media and explores the strategies used to market consumer goods and brands via social media. This lesson is primarily one that promotes awareness and critical thinking about advertising and the subtleties that can influence consumers like students through a medium they are all too familiar with. Think of this lesson like an informatory discussion with your child about how not every person they meet is a safe person. This lesson is about tea

The timeline project asks students to examine their past, present and make predictions about their futures. There are 27 questions for students to answer and assemble into a timeline with pictures, graphics, and color. There is a grading sheet at the end of the packet. The day that the time lines are due have students get in groups and try to find similarities and differences between everyone’s story. *Note: some questions are very personal and instruct students ahead of time that they only ha

Have you ever noticed that kids love foods that look like things they recognize like animals, bugs, toys, people, etc.? It is fun to create cute snacks that kids like and that are safe and healthy for them too! For this project students will create a kids’ snack cookbook of different snacks adults can make to nutritiously feed children. This download is a zip file with the following components: • Healthy Kids Snack Cookbook Project Directions & Rubric • Healthy Kids Snack Cookbook Editable Te

Problem solving is one skill that has to be taught. If you think about it, we really want students who can problem solve, not memorize a whole bunch of facts or methods for doing something. No matter what problem is thrown at them in life we want students who can go through the process of breaking down the problem into pieces, figuring out the variables, and working through the problem to find a practical solution. All fields and industries require some level of problem solving. This lesson happ

This project is a part of a senior life skills class. I explain to the students that after high school it is really up to them to engage in learning on their own. No one is going to spoon feed them. One of the ways adults learn is by reading books on subjects that they need to work on or learn more about. I always warn my students that self help books a lot of times are written by religious authors that may have opinions different than yours. If urge them to explain why they disagree with the a

One of the best ways to allow students to demonstrate their understanding of the development of children of different ages is to have them create a children's book for a child of that age. This editable document is the children's book storyboard planning sheet and the final product grading sheet. Enjoy!

This is a cute little change purse in the shape of a fish. Great mini project or for practice putting in a zipper.

If you're like me you've been at the cash register ready to check out when the clerk tells you about some new rewards card or store credit card offer that may sound appealing. To make matters worse you may have rewards credit cards that beg you to use them to earn points towards your next airfare, or cash back. You may have thrown up your hands and declared I'll take no special offers or you may be one to take most special offers. How do you navigate in the world full of offers for EVERYTHING? W

This is a three page handout on communication hang-ups and conflict management. The student questions ask students to write about a recent conflict, how they handled it, who was involved, and to identify patterns around their conflict management style (good and bad).

Two tests for the prenatal and newborn care unit. The prenatal test covers the period of the zygote, embryo, fetus, multiple births, punnett squares, conception, pregnancy, heredity. The newborn care test covers labor, delivery, newborn development, Apgar scale, reflexes, diapering & washing the baby. This is an editable document so you can customize the questions to fit the specifics of what you covered. Easy grading with separate answer sheets from the questions. Answer keys provided! Form

Emotional equations, a concept developed by Chip Conley, breaks down typical emotions into components much like a math equation. By learning emotional equations one can think about the ingredients fueling the emotion and make behavioral changes to change the emotion constructively. Directions: Create the emotional equations for the words given and come up with the emotion for the equation for questions 8-10. Using small white boards or pieces of paper have a class discussion on each of

This is a quiz for culinary vegetable units. It asks students to classify vegetables and explain different cooking methods.