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FAMILY CONSUMER SCIENCE CURRICULUM

 

Students will be able to explain why they need foods from all the basic food groups from the Food Pyramid and in what size portion they should be.

 

Students will be able to solve problems and make better decisions.

 

Students will develop effective communication skills.

Students will be able to meet children’s needs and guide and discipline them in a positive way.

 

Students will be better able to deal with individual stress.

 

By the end of the course, students should know, understand and be able to:

Food Choices I

• Apply various dietary guidelines in planning to meet nutritional and wellness needs.

• Demonstrate the ability to select, store, prepare and serve nutritionally and aesthetically pleasing meals.
• Analyze conditions and practices that promote safe food handling.

 

Food Choices II

• Analyze the effects of psychological, cultural, and social influences on food choices and other nutritional practices.
• Analyze the relationship of nutrition and wellness to individual and family health throughout the life span.
• Apply various dietary guidelines in planning to meet nutritional and wellness needs.
• Demonstrate the ability to select, store, prepare and serve nutritionally and aesthetically pleasing meals.
• Analyze conditions and practices that promote safe food handling and safety in the kitchen.

 

Child Development and Parenting

• Analyze factors related to preparing for parenthood.
• Analyze growth and development birth through preschool.
• Analyze roles and responsibilities for parenting across the life span.
• Analyze parenting practices and nurturing strategies that maximize growth and development in children.

 

Relationships

• Develop an understanding of self and effective communication skills that will contribute to positive relationships now and in the future.
• Develop an understanding of family stressors, traits and ways to build strong families.
• Develop an awareness of healthy communities, how to access community services, and ways to contribute through community service and active consumerism.

 

 

• Problem Solving/Decision Making
  • What is the problem or issue to be solved?
  • What are all of my options?
  • What are the pros and cons of each option?
  • Which decision if best for me?
  • Take action on the decision
  • Evaluate – What that the best choices?

 

• Making Connections     
  • How does what you already know help you related to this subject?
  • How does this information prompt you to rethink your past choices?
  • How does this recipe remind you of others you have read?
  • After making this recipe/meal, what do you understand that you didn’t before?

 

• Application of skills to lab activities
  • What skills will you use to make this recipe/meal?
  • What do we need to know before planning activities for children?
  • In what ways does understanding what a child needs help you be a  better parent?
  • What do you wish you had known about before the lab activity or simulation?

 

• Determining the most important ideas/tasks
  • Before undertaking this activity, what is the most important thing to know or be able to do?
  • Are their some parts of the information that are more important than others?

 

• Creating visual images
  • As you are creating this meal/product, can you see what it will look like?
  • Did the pictures help you understand the process and or product better?

 

• Drawing Inferences
  • Can you predict what could happen without an ingredient?
  • What prediction can you make about the response to that statement?

 

• Synthesizing your  reading
  • What would you tell another person about this topic, if you could only use a few sentences?

 

• Evaluating

• What are some ways you can determine the best product?
• How can we determine if that is the best technique to use in that situation?

 

 

FACS STANDARD	Food Choices I	Food Choices II	Child Development & Parenting	Relationships
Understand the foods and nutrition practices that promote individual and family well-being.	Food pyramid Nutrition Food groups Serving sizes and portion control Nutrition Food groups Serving sizes and portion control Labels Labs for  food groups Safety and sanitation	Meal Planning Nutrients in meals Calories needed Burning calories Portion control Herbs and spices Labs for meals-breakfast, lunch and dinner Grocery shopping Weekly flyers for meals Safety and sanitation Equipment Cooking terminology	Breast and bottle feeding  Infant, toddler and preschooler nutrition and needs Planning meals Preventing obesity
Demonstrate knowledge, skills and strategies necessary to strengthening the development and well-being of children in a variety of settings			Prenatal care SIDS & SBS Prevention Abuse Prevention Developmentally appropriate practices Activities for children Child development theorists Major tasks of parents Principles of development, observation, guidance Prevention of child abuse Health and safety
Understand interpersonal relationships as they apply to the family, workplace, & community				Consumerism Community service Communication skills Fair fighting skills Types of families Self-concept/esteem Love/infatuation Abuse/dating violence Parenting styles Marriage Communication technology