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Family and Consumer Science Department
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FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
HSLM125 CHOICES
Credit: 1.0
Gr.: 9-10
Prerequisite: None
Choices is a class designed for freshmen and sophomores as they begin to take increasing responsibility for the decisions that will affect their life now and into their future. The class will include activities to increase awareness of personal strengths and interests. Topics will include goal setting and decision making skills, including how to avoid destructive decisions. Students will look at the importance of building positive relationships, and building positive character traits and how all of this will help them choose a career that will be a good personal fit.
Unit 1 – Developing Self Awareness
Unit 2 – Goal Setting
Unit 3 – Decision Making Skills
Unit 4 – Relationships
Unit 5 – Destructive Decisions
Unit 6 – Career Awareness
Unit 7 – Developing Positive Character Traits
HSLM210 NUTRITION
Credit: 1.0
Gr.: 10-12
Prerequisite: None
What you eat affects your health, how you feel, and how your body performs. How do you make the best choices from all of the foods available? How do you know whom to believe with so much conflicting information? This course will look at the USDA guidelines for healthy eating. We will spend time on nutrition issues relating to health, disease, and athletic performance. In addition we will look at issues of food safety and how nutritional needs change during the human life cycle.
Unit 1 – The USDA Dietary Guidelines
Unit 2 – Nutrition and Wellness
Unit 3 – Nutrition Issues
Unit 4 – Digestion and Absorption
Unit 5 –Nutrition and Disease
Unit 6 – Food Safety
Unit 7 – Nutrition Throughout the Lifecycle
HSLM220 PARENTING
Credit: 1.0
Gr.: 11-12
Prerequisite: None
Parenting is a class for juniors and seniors who are interested in developing the knowledge and skills important for any adult who will be involved with children. Students will explore human development for conception to adulthood to develop an understanding of how children differ from adults. Students will explore the needs of special needs children, and examine parenting cross-culturally. Students will have opportunities to observe and work with children. The emphasis is continually on parenting and parental choices.
Unit 1 – The Responsibilities, Rewards, and Challenges of Parenting
Unit 2 – Prenatal Development and Care
Unit 3 – Childbirth and Neonates
Unit 4 – Infancy
Unit 5 – Toddlers and Preschoolers
Unit 6 – Special Needs Children
Unit 7 – Careers Working with Children
HSLM250 SURVIVING ON YOUR OWN
Credit: 1.0
Gr.: 11-12
Prerequisite: None
Learn to survive and even prosper away from home. This class will cover money management including budgets, checkbooks, credit cards and debit cards. How to read a lease and deal with utilities. How do I make a doctors appointment, what medical records should I have with me? How do I handle insurance? How to set up a kitchen and prepare simple nutritious meals? Learn what you need to know to take your place as an adult in your community.
Unit 1 - Goal Setting
Unit 2 - Personal Money Management
Unit 3 - Security and Paperwork
Unit 4 - A Place to Live
Unit 5 - Taking Care of Myself
Unit 6 - Maintaining Your Personal Health
Unit 7 - Giving Back
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