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.
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!
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!
I have always enjoyed teaching students how to make convenience foods from scratch and showing them the benefits of doing so. When I saw an article about DIY UnCrustables, I knew it was a mini-lesson and lab in the making! Thus “Making vs Buying UnCrustables” was created! Read on to learn more…
This Fortune Cookie Lesson & Lab pack a big punch when it comes to addressing a variety of standards! For one, it teaches about the history and culture of the food. Second, it focuses on writing and math as students have to write fortunes following certain criteria and they must measure with a ruler and protractor to create the correct sizes for fortune strips and fortune cookies. Finally, it addresses food preparation standards with a very fun, engaging and hands-on lab!
As I’m casually looking at social media, I often see requests for quick, easy and inexpensive sewing projects. The Embroidered Tea Bag Bookmark: A Hand Sewing Project is perfect for all grade levels, experience levels and a great way to use up those odds and ends of scrap fabrics. It can also be done in a couple of class periods, allows for personal creativity and develops fine motor skills. A win, win, win all the way around!
December can be a very difficult time of the year to teach and keep students engaged as there is usually alot going on! That’s why it’s even more important to assign activities or projects that will keep them focused and on task. The beauty behind the Gifts That Keep On Giving project is that it is very hands-on and helps you at the same time create a wall display or bulletin board that is informative, colorful and festive for the time of the year!
The first week of school can be a bit chaotic until rosters are finalized! Because of this, many teachers wait to start actual course content until then and fill in with a variety of team building or get to know you types of activities. With the Invention Mash-Up, students can have fun being creative, collaborating and communicating as they design a new product! Read on to see what this is all about.
I know it’s only July, and it’s summer break, but I want to share a beginning of the year, Get to Know You Action Figure Activity with you. This activity will help you not only ease back into the school year, but help you get to know your students more quickly and give you an instant bulletin board to boot! It also is a fun way to use AI in a creative, meaningful way….check it out!
I’ve been in the FACS profession for a very long time and it seems to me that this “new” concept of Experiential Learning that I keep reading about has been something we’ve always done! We’ve always been about hands-on learning that focused on meaningful activities and putting theories into practice around real world and real life experiences! We’ve been developing students’ skills, critical thinking and preparing them for life from the get-go! So, if you’re not sure you are including experiential learning in your programs or courses, just take a look at the list below to see how you can do so or reaffirm that what you’ve been doing is a current pedagogical strategy and/or model.
