Family Consumer Science

Creative Cooking: 0.5 CREDIT This course will provide knowledge and skills for students to explore a range of culinary and other related careers. Students will have the opportunity to participate in cooking labs throughout the semester. The following are units of study: Unit 1 Kitchen Safety Unit 2 Kitchen Measurement and Management Unit 3 Grains Unit 4 Fruit/Vegetable Unit 5 Dairy & Egg Unit 6 Meat Unit 7 Pastry & Cake

Essential Living Skills: 0.5 CREDIT The focus of this course is to prepare students for independent living and workforce success. Students will learn basic life and workplace skills to be successful productive citizens. There will be opportunities for students to apply many of the skills by participating in labs and projects throughout the semester. The following are units of study throughout the semester. Career exploration, communication, character development, consumer education, personal finance, culinary skills, nutrition, and textile care

Health: This class promotes wellness and health literacy, encouraging positive behavior now to ensure a lifetime of health. Topics covered include health and wellness, hands-on CPR instruction, health and your body, drugs, reproduction, contraception, and lifestyle diseases.

Relationships/Parenting: 0.5 CREDIT The purpose of this course is to prepare young men and women for the realities of relationships, married life, and parenting. Healthy and unhealthy dating, learning to communicate, resolving conflicts, human sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, and family planning are important topics discussed. This course helps prepare students to become effective partners and parents. All aspects of child rearing, beginning with prenatal care and including discipline and developing a positive self-concept in a child, will be covered. Students will travel to an elementary classroom and work with children as a clinical experience. Students will deal with both the mother’s and the father’s roles in parenting. Baby-Think-It-Over will be used in a take-home lab experience involving infant care and including not just the student but their extended family as well.