Targeting Life Skills In Independent Living

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Targeting Life Skills In Independent Living
Family
and
Sciences
Consumer
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What is Family and Consumer Sciences all about?

• Personal and Family Living
• Clothing and Consumer Education
• Nutrition and Wellness
• Child Development--8th grade 2nd semester
• Targeting Real Life Skills

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HUMAN RELATIONS

• Understanding self others
• Family relationships
• Friends
• Peer relationships

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Nutrition Wellness

• Attitudes and influences
• Nutritional needs and body functions
• Diets and eating disorders
• Food preparations for success and safety
• Correct menu planning

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CONSUMERISM

• Consumer decision making
• Project construction for success quality
• Consumer rights and responsibilities
• Ethical marketplace behavior

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EMPLOYABILITY

• Career goal-education goal relationships
• Interests skills for career relationships
• Work values and ethics
• Balancing education, work and lifestyle

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Mathematics

• budgeting
• calculating
• computing
• comparing

• determining proportion
• measuring
• predicting

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Language Communication

• analyzing
• composing
• discussing
• reading
• speaking
• summarizing
• writing

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Science Technology

• applying
• observing and comparing
• determining effectiveness
• experimenting
• problem solving
• organizing data

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Social Studies

• applying
• decision making
• goal setting
• illustrating
• interpreting
• relating to the world around us

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Activities to reach desired outcomes

• Cooperating
• Decision Making
• Problem Solving
• Leadership

• Creativity
• Thinking
• Goal Setting
• Management

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In order to hit the Target for Success, the
students of today will need to think
constructively, make sound decisions, problem
solve, access information and take responsibility
for their own lives.
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The challenge of this class is to develop
students who can successfully hit that target!
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