By the end of grade 8 students will:

1. examine how individuals and families make choices to satisfy needs and wants.

1. How do you distinguish between needs and wants?

2. How can individual consumer choices affect the family?

2. apply management principles to individual and family financial practices.

1. What are your personal resources?

2. What are the principles of management?

1. demonstrate proper use, care, and storage of equipment and appliances.

1. How do you prevent accidents in the kitchen?

2. demonstrate proper use of a recipe.

1. What are the meanings of common recipe terms?

2. What math skills are required in working with recipes (increasing, decreasing, measuring accuracy)?

3. plan, carry out, and evaluate a food lab.

1. What management skills are needed to plan, carry out, and evaluate a food lab?

4. demonstrate proper sanitation and safety practices in the kitchen.

1. What food safety practices are necessary to keep you healthy?

5. compare student diet with the Food Guide Pyramid recommendations.

1. What are the Food Guide Pyramid recommendations?

2. How does your diet compare with the Food Guide Pyramid?

1. describe physical, social, emotional, and intellectual characteristics of children according to age groups.

1. What are the physical characteristics of children according to age groups (infant,

toddler, pre-school, school age, and adolescent)?

2. What are the social characteristics of children according to age groups (infant, toddler, pre-school, school age, and adolescent)?

3. What are the emotional characteristics of children according to age groups (infant, toddler, pre-school, school age, and adolescent)?

4. What are the intellectual characteristics of children according to age groups (infant, toddler, pre-school, school age, and adolescent)?

2. establish developmentally appropriate guidelines for behavior.

1. What guidelines of behaviors are appropriate for each age group?

1. analyze functions and expectations of various types of relationships.

1. What are the functions of the various types of relationships teenagers have?

2. analyze personal needs and characteristics and their impact on interpersonal relationships.

1. How do personal needs and characteristics impact interpersonal relationships?

3. demonstrate communication skills that contribute to positive relationships.

1. What are communication skills?

4. evaluate effective conflict prevention and management techniques.

1. What are conflict prevention and management techniques?

1. use a variety of equipment, tools, and supplies for apparel and textiles construction.

1. What equipment, tools, and supplies are needed for construction?

2. What is the meaning of common sewing/construction terms?

3. What basic skills are needed to complete a basic sewing project?

4. What are the proper ways to use sewing equipment and tools?

5. How do you choose supplies for a sewing project?

2. demonstrate basic skills for producing textile projects

Comprehensive year long course

1. Integrate multiple roles and responsibilities in family, work, and community settings.

1. What sacrifices are involved in trying to juggle multiple roles and responsibilities?

2. What are our responsibilities to our community?

1. Demonstrate management of individual and family resources, including food, clothing, shelter, recreation and transportation (with an emphasis on individual resources.)

1. What correlation is there between cost of living and individual resources?

1. Demonstrate proper use, care, and storage of equipment and appliances.

1. How does proper use, care, and storage affect the longevity of equipment and appliances?

2. Demonstrate proper use of a recipe of moderate difficulty.

1. What are the meanings of more advanced recipe terms?

3. Plan, carry out, and evaluate a food lab of moderate difficulty.

4. Demonstrate proper sanitation and safety practices in the kitchen.

5. Demonstrate nutrition and wellness practices that enhance individual and family well being.

1. How can you adapt your current life style for your maturing body?

1. Evaluate housing decisions in relation to available resources and options.

1, What are your housing choices?

2. Evaluate the use of housing and interior furnishings and products in meeting specific design needs.

1. How can you use the design principles to create a pleasing home environment?

3. Demonstrate design ideas through visual presentation.

4. Analyze career paths within the housing, interiors, and furnishings industry.

1. What career options are available in housing?

1. Analyze developmentally appropriate practices for early childhood.

1. What are developmental benchmarks for the stages of childhood?

2. Evaluate the impact of caregiver roles and responsibilities on strengthening the well-being of individuals and families.

1. What influence does the role of a caregiver have on a child’s development?

3. Analyze the impact of family as a system on individuals and society.

1. What role does the family have in society?

1. Demonstrate values and standards that guide behavior in interpersonal relationships.

1. What values and standards today influence behavior?

2. Demonstrate teamwork and leadership skills in the family, workplace, and community.

1. What are teamwork and leadership skills that would benefit family, workplace, and

community?

3. Analyze functions and expectations of various types of relationships.

1. What expectations are there in your relationships?

1. Evaluate fiber and textile materials.

1. What fibers are going to meet your needs?

2. Demonstrate skill needed for selection, care, and maintenance of textiles and apparel.

3. Demonstrate skills needed to produce, alter, or repair textile products and apparel.

4. Analyze career paths within the textile and apparel design industry.

1. What career options are available in the textile and apparel industry?

Semester course

1. Evaluate the significance of family and its impact on the well-being of individuals and society.

1. What is the impact of families on its individual members?

2. Demonstrate appreciation for diverse perspectives, needs, and characteristics of individuals and families.

1. How have changes in today’s society affected families?

3. Demonstrate respectful and caring relationships in the family, workplace, and community.

1. How can you show respect in our environment?

4. Analyze functions and expectations of various types of relationships.

1. How are relationships affected by expectations?

5. Analyze personal needs and characteristics and their impact on interpersonal relationships.

1. How can you meet individual needs without infringing on others?

6. Demonstrate communication skills that contribute to positive relationships.

7. Evaluate effective conflict prevention and management techniques.

1. What are effective conflict prevention and management techniques?

2. What works?

8. Analyze factors that impact human growth and development.

1. How do drinking and drugs affect pregnancy and life in general?

9. Evaluate the impact of parenting roles and responsibilities on strengthening the well-being of individuals and families.

1. What makes a good parent?

10. Evaluate external support systems that provide services for parents.

1. What is available in your community to provide support?

11. Integrate multiple life roles and responsibilities in family, work, and community settings.

1. How do you blend multiple roles in family, work, and community successfully?

12. Demonstrate management of individual and family resources, including food, clothing, shelter, health care, recreation, and transportation.

Semester course

1. Demonstrate nutritional wellness practices that enhance individual and family well-being.

1. How do you plan nutritional menus to meet the needs of all family members?

2. Demonstrate ability to acquire, handle, and use foods to meet nutrition and needs of individuals and families across the life span.

1. How do the duties of a wise consumer change through time?

3. Evaluate factors that affect food safety from production through consumption.

1. How do we know our food is safe?

4. Determine the impact of technological advances on selection, preparation and home storage of food.

1. What will our food be like in the future?

2. How has our food changed over the years?

Semester Course

1. Demonstrate design and space planning skills required for personal housing needs, interiors, and furnishings.

2. Analyze influences on architectural and furniture design and development.

1. What is affecting the architectural styles of today?

3. Evaluate housing decisions in relation to available resources and options.

1. How do your options change with regard to your available resources?

4. Analyze career paths within the housing, interiors,and furnishings industry.

1. What career options are available in housing, interiors, and furnishings?

Semester course

1. Apply decision making skills for living independently. (Skill areas: housing, foods and nutrition, managing money, consumerism, and clothing.)

1. What is the best way to make a decision?

2. How do you make a decision?

3. How can we carry out our responsibilities to the community?

Semester Course

1. Analyze factors that influence wellness practices across the life span.

1. How does wellness change as you mature?

2. Investigate diversity of culture as an influence on food choices and wellness.

1. How does culture influence food choices?

2. Why do some cultures seem to be healthier?

3. Demonstrate management of resources in laboratory settings.

4. Evaluate nutrition principles, food plans, preparation techniques, and specialized dietary plans.

1. How do special diets influence the family’s eating practices?

Semester course

1. Evaluate fibers to meet consumer needs and wants.

1. What fibers meet today’s consumer needs and wants?

2. Determine performance characteristics of various fiber and textile products.

1. What is the benefit of buying cotton household textile products?

3. Explore current technology and trends that facilitate design and production of textiles products and apparel.

1. How do technological advances affect fashion?

4. Analyze career paths within the textile and apparel design industry.

1. What career options are available in the textile and apparel industry?