I’ve been seeing alot of requests for introducing students to color theory in conjunction with interior design, especially for junior high students. After giving this a great deal of thought, I created this Color Me Schemes mini-lesson with hands on activities to help newbies to interior design or color theory understand this concept.
Family life is changing faster than ever and today’s students are growing up in households that look nothing like the ones we grew up in. Trends Affecting Families Today explores these trends, helping students uncover the forces shaping the everchanging lives of their families.
Give students a Financial Advice Dilemma to practice and apply their critical thinking skills as well as their decision making skills! With all of the financial advise options available, students need to understand what they are all about as well as their pros and cons. So, use this activity as part of your decision making unit, as a stand alone extension activity or as a sub plan. Regardless of when or how you use it, students will have to put on their thinking caps!
If you haven’t watched the reality show “On Brand with Jimmy Fallon“, you don’t know what you’re missing! This show is basically a gamified competition where participants create and pitch marketing campaigns for a variety of well known products. As I was watching this series, I couldn’t help but think that this would be a great activity to adapt to topics within our course content. As previously promised, I’m sharing On Brand: Creativity Campaign for use in a child development class.
I love teaching students how to make desserts that look elegant, but sound difficult! After learning about The history and preparation steps of Lemon Posset, students are always surprised to learn how simple they are to actually make. Read on to learn how to incorporate this into your citrus fruit and/or dessert unit.
A FACS teacher reached out about helping her create a lesson for a healthy home environment. After brainstorming some ideas, the Healthy Home Environment Lesson Plan was created. Maybe it will be helpful for one of your classes too!
