Teen Living Notes

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Teen Living Notes

• Obj. 13.01 Experiment ways to organize living
  space.

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Organize living space

• Private space bedroom or bathroom
• Shared space kitchen, living room (Den), dining
  room, or garage.

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Organize living space

• Personal Living space space for his/her
  belongings private areas like clothes drawers,
  desk cabinets or closets for one individual.
  When someone invades your personal living space
  they do not ask permission before borrowing or
  looking through your items.
• Drawing a scaled floor plan remember to use the
  same scale for the furniture and the room.

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Organize living space

• When sharing rooms within a house each partner
  must consider the other individual needs if
  sharing a bathroom, plan a schedule for use. Ex
  who will get ready for school first or take
  nightly showers?
• When sharing a bedroom, one can create their own
  personal living space through furniture
  arrangement. Ex beds facing opposite walls.

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Organize living space

• Traffic pattern Path used through the house.
  Being able to walk through a room without weaving
  in out around furniture. Never put too much
  furniture in a room, individuals must have the
  ability to be able to walk through without
  squeezing past a piece of furniture. This could
  improve traffic pattern and safety in a house.

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Organize living space

• Efficient (useful) storage keeps frequently used
  items easily accessible easily to reach and get
  too in a hurry
• An advantage of sharing a room with a family
  member is that it will help teach you
  responsibility for shared space.

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Organize living space

• Before moving furniture several times, decide how
  to arrange furniture first by placing large
  pieces of furniture on a scale floor plan. When
  ready to move, arrange large pieces first, then
  add smaller items into the room.
• A good first step to cleaning a cluttered
  crowded bedroom would be to organize the items in
  the room.

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Organize living space

• Multiple use of space means being able to
  perform more than one task in that given space.
  Ex doing homework at the dining table.
• Scale floor plan can help someone to organize a
  room by arrangement of furniture so that you can
  get the most out of the space that is available.

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Organize living space

• A potential problem for a household would be the
  more people who live under one roof, the harder
  it will be to have enough private space
  available.
• If a family must has one bathroom in the house,
  then this room becomes a shared space. Must make
  schedule or arrangements to share space.

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Organize living space

• Shared family space is used by more than 1
  person.
• A key to organizing space would be to group like
  (similar) items together.

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Obj. 13.02

• Rate home safety practices.

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Home Safety Practices

• For disable or handicap family members an
  important safety precaution to have in a home
  would be handrails and ramps.
• Home security system would help communicate with
  local emergency agencies if a burglar tries to
  break-in the house while the family is away. In
  apartment buildings families can help with
  safety by installing special monitors to observe
  the halls and lobbies.

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Home Safety Practices

• To avoid electrical shock one would unplug the
  electrical appliance before you clean it.
• Having a plan of action practicing 2 escape
  routes from the home in case of a fire would be
  important procedures to have in place.

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Home Safety Practices

• In case of an emergency situation, and you are
  home alone call 911. In the event of a fall, if
  swelling occurs immediately and the pain is very
  strong still call 911, you may have broken a
  bone.
• Poisonous items like bleach, paint, pesticides,
  fuels, care care products should be stored in
  their original containers

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Home Safety Practices

• Using a hair dryer with dry hands would be a
  safety practice to use in the home.
• When using appliances, be sure to check the cord
  for any cuts or expose wire near the plug. If
  you see this replace the cord/plug before using
  the appliance. This could start an electrical
  house fire.

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Home Safety Practices

• Most common cause of Fatal (DEATH) home accidents
  is falls.
• A safe way to store medicines poisons in a home
  would be to keep out of reach of children.
• Smoke detectors should be placed on each level of
  a home. Ex if a house has 3 floors, each floor
  needs their own smoke detector. Check batteries
  every 6 months.

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Home Safety Practices

• If a persons clothes catches on fire, remember
  to drop to the ground and roll over to put out
  the fire.
• Young children are mostly involved in poisonings
  that occur in the home.
• Automation use in a smart housewould be a
  feature like central on/off systems for lights.