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.
This Avant Garde Fashion lesson, has students actively exploring how creativity, bold ideas, and unexpected choices can shape expressive design! It provides some background information focusing on what it is, how it came to be, some designer examples and why it matters. Afterwards, students are provided with a hands-on designing challenge presented in a runway show that shares their experimentation and creative thinking with the class.
There’s alot to wrap your head around when teaching students about food label literacy! I believe beginning with How to Read a Food Label is the first step! In this lesson you will find a variety of engaging, interactive activities to help students learn to read them.
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.
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!
