Middle School FCS (2021)

Career Exploration

Nutrition

Human Development

Healthy Relationships

Textiles

Interior Design

Hospitality and Tourism

Analyze information about career opportunities to make informed career decisions

Evaluate employability and soft skills in school, community and workplace settings.

Create a personal learning plan that incorporate a career path. 

Investigate careers in the nutrition and wellness industry.

Explain the components of individual and family wellness.

Apply food safety and sanitation practices.

Investigate careers in the Education and Training and Human Services clusters.

Analyze human growth and development.

Analyze practices that promote growth and development. 

Investigate careers in Human Services and Education and Training

Analyze how personal growth influences relationships. 

Analyze skills needed to build and maintain positive relationships.

Explore career opportunities in textiles and clothing industry.

Demonstrate skills used in textile production.

Explore career opportunities in interior design.

Demonstrate skills used in interior design.

Explore career opportunities in the hospitality and tourism industry.

Demonstrate skills, customer service and safety precautions needed in hospitality and tourism.

Investigate the knowledge and skills associated within the sixteen career clusters.

Evaluate potential careers in the Education and Training, Arts, A/V Technology and Communications, Human Services and Hospitality and Tourism career clusters

Assess social, economic and technology influences on career choices.

Investigate employability and soft skills in school, community and workplace settings.

Use service learning or volunteerism to develop employability and soft skills. 

Develop leadership and teamwork skills.

Analyze career assessment results to explore career cluster options.

Develop a personal learning plan needed to achieve individual and career goals.

Explore knowledge and skills needed for careers in nutrition and wellness related occupations.

Describe how food choice decisions affect personal and family wellness.

Investigate the relationships between physical activity and healthy lifestyles. 

Identify the six main nutrients and their relationship to a healthy lifestyle.

Describe factors contributing to nutritionrelated diseases and disorders.

Explain common practices that promote safe and sanitary food conditions.

Explore knowledge and skills needed for careers in Education and Training and Human Services clusters.

Investigate the stages of human development, birth through adulthood.

Analyze how the family contributes to healthy human development.

Analyze the impact of social issues and technology on human development.

Summarize the areas of human development.

Evaluate developmentally appropriate learning activities for all ages. 

Demonstrate understanding of practices that promote the health and safety of all ages.

Understand the roles and responsibilities of a caregiver.

Explore knowledge and skills needed for careers in Human Services and Education and Training clusters.

Explain how personal needs, wants and values affect relationships. 

Summarize the effects of self-esteem, mental health, and self-image within relationships.

Explain the role of positive communication skills in relationships.

Analyze how personal standards, ethics, and values guide behaviors in relationships.

Apply problem-solving strategies and decision making to relationship issues.

Understand strategies to resolve conflicts in relationships.

Explore knowledge and skills needed for careers in the textile and clothing industry.

Recognize textile production terminology.

Interpret technical instructions.

Demonstrate textile production skills. 

Explore knowledge and skills needed for careers in interior design.

Describe the elements and principles of design used in an interior space.

Use space planning guidelines.

Explore knowledge and skills needed for careers in the hospitality and tourism industry.

Recognize customer service in the hospitality and tourism industry.

Identity safety precautions in the hospitality and tourism industry.