The Dimensions of Wellness are made up of several components that help guide balanced living. Introduce your students to the 8 Dimensions of Wellness using a variety of teaching strategies that will keep your students engaged and moving as they learn all about them.
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Engage your students with one of the “Guess What? Games”. These games can be used to introduce topics or to review them and get students thinking creatively, communicating and moving pretty quickly. Not only will you set the stage to the type of classroom you will run, but it let’s them know that your teaching style is probably very different than most typical classrooms!
I frequently see requests from teachers for sewing projects. When I received this lesson from two experienced Utah FCS teachers, I knew I had to share! Shae Nilsen and Jess Dredge have started a Sewing YouTube channel, The Guided Stitch, to help assist with this Plushie Pets Sewing Project and other student friendly projects.
When teaching concepts that involve sequencing or chronological order in child development, I like to utilize an adaptation of Eduprotocols teaching strategy. In this Child Development Sketch & Tell Activities post, you’ll find several activities using a common resource and template to help guide your students making learning more engaging and colorful!
Ever “wing” a recipe and wonder why it didn’t turn out correctly? I’m sure many of your students have! In this hands-on, no tech activity, students learn why reading a recipe carefully matters. So, if you’re looking for a way to help students understand the importance of following directions in food labs, check out my Cookie Catastrophe: Why Reading a Recipe Matters!
Many teachers are doing an about face when it comes to using technology in the classroom! They are reverting back to paper and pencil, hands-on activities, and just being more intentional about the use of technology. Many elective teachers are also being asked to incorporate ELA and Math concepts into their lesson plans. All About Me TikTok Scripts Adapted to FCS Content Areas checks all the boxes! It’s tech without using actual tech and very much ELA based. Thanks to Brian Tolentino for sharing the original TIkTok Script activity on FaceBook and giving me permision to adapt it! Hope you can utilize this in your classes.
Admittedly, creating this new food guide pyramid has been challenging! I can see why there have been many requests for updated lessons and activities around it. So here goes…In this Real Food Guide Pyramid Lesson & Activities, you will find engaging hands-on activities to use with students to check their pre-existing knowledge on the new guide, learn background info about it and the food it encourages, followed by a culminating group assignment. Give it a try and let me know what you think!
The idea for this mini-lesson came after reading an article on Linkedin by Robert Glazer. Unspoken Rules for Life and Work are considered common behaviors and expections that society expects us to know. They are learned by observing others and noting what is accepted and approved of versus those that are disapproved of. This is a great way to introduce your students to these, possibly before they learn them the hard way!
It all started about a decade ago when a Marry Me Chicken recipe went viral on social media! Since then, the Marry Me Chicken as evolved into a variety of versions. In this post, Marry Me Dishes: Recipes, Activities & Challenge, students compare and contrast different recipe versions of the dish before preparing them in the lab. And, if you’re looking for a creative twist or competition, have students develop their own version of a Marry Me dish via a cooking challenge.
