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!
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.
