Middle School Family and Consumer Sciences (2014): Grades 6, 7, 8

Career Planning And Continued Education

Financial Literacy

Nutrition And Wellness

Human Development And Relationships

Life Skills And Resource Management

Students demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary for success in further education, career, and life.

Students will apply management practices to personal, family, and financial resources.

Students will demonstrate nutrition, wellness, and food preparation practices that enhance individual and family well-being.

Students will demonstrate relationship skills and understanding in contexts across the life span such as school, parenting, and the workplace.

Students will integrate multiple life roles and responsibilities in school, family, career, and community settings.

Analyze factors that impact self-formation, including;

Explore factors that impact personal image and feelings of personal worth, including;

Investigate personal attributes, standards, goals, interests, and aptitudes as they relate to career concepts, including;

Identify and manage resources to provide for personal and family needs and wants, including;

Demonstrate skills to manage financial resources to meet personal and family goals, including;

Evaluate nutrition choices and practices in a variety of settings, using reliable guidelines and sources of information, including;

Examine factors and issues that impact current and future health and wellness, including;

Demonstrate skills needed for preparing and serving foods, including;

Analyze factors that contribute to positive relationships with family members, including;

Demonstrate skills for positive guidance and care-giving of children and others, including;

Examine factors that contribute to positive relationships, including;

Analyze factors that contribute to positive relationships with peers, including;

Demonstrate teamwork and leadership skills, including;

Accomplish tasks and fulfill responsibilities by using thinking and problem-solving processes, including;

Demonstrate skills needed for responsibility for self and self-protection, including;

Demonstrate skills needed to care for personal and family resources, including;

Analyze resource consumption and apply conservation practices, including;

Demonstrate skills to use technology and evaluate impact of change and innovations in school, family, career, and community settings;

Standards and ethics

Goals, priorities, values

Aptitudes, abilities, interests, motivations

Roles, responsibilities, and life events

Family, career, community, and global connections

Behavior, etiquette, and personal appearance in different situations

Work and individual identity

Work ethics and time management/prioritization

Career clusters, career pathways , career research

Career planning, four-year course planning

Study skills, listening skills, note-taking

Personal and community resources

Consumer protection laws and resources, marketing/advertising techniques

Taxes and income

Controlling personal information, financial account fraud

Volunteering/charitable giving

Budgeting/personal finance plan

Banking and financial institutions, electronic banking

Managing credit and debt, credit cards vs. debit cards

Saving/Investing, , and Insurance

Checking accounts, utilizing financial records

Dietary guidelines/MyPlate

Comparing food intake to recommendations/ Serving/Portion Sizes

Nutrients, nutritional label analysis

Selecting foods at home and away

Activity and exercise

Food safety and food borne illnesses

Wellness issues (for example, calcium/osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, eating disorders, cardio-vascular health)

Laboratory/kitchen safety and sanitation practices

Cooking terms, equivalents, abbreviations, measurements

Reading and using recipes

Techniques and equipment for preparing and serving food

Teamwork in the laboratory setting and hands on activities

Roles and responsibilities

Coping with family changes

Setting rules, compromising, cooperating

Understanding ages and developmental stages from birth through adolescence

Caregiver responsibilities/Babysitting Skills

Handling emergencies and keeping children safe

Nutritious and developmentally appropriate foods for children

Children's play and toys (for learning as well as safety, recalls, and age appropriate)

Communication skills and styles

Conflict prevention and resolution

Peer pressure, assuming responsibility for choices and actions

Appreciating diversity

Changing male/female relationships

Leadership skills and styles

Taking risks, overcoming setbacks

Character/citizenship, service

Working in a group

Leadership development through FCCLA projects or Chapter activities

Decision-making, evaluating information, and planning processes

Choices, options, and consequences

Refusal skills

Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse

Reading use/care labels and manuals

Care, repair, and storage of personal resources

Clothing care, repair, stain removal, laundry

Product selection and use

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Technology integration throughout FACS units and topics as available

Digital etiquette on email, cell phones, etc.

Digital ethics; plagiarism, commenting vs. anonymity