Elementary family consumer sciences resources for Microsoft Word and for International Baccalaureate

Family Tree and History - Culture Activity.

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One of my favorite and most worthwhile activities! Wonderful document for recording family facts and memories. This is a culture assignment that will be treasured for who knows how long. I hand out as extra credit, but I strongly encourage their use... where else will this information ever be captured? Students just ask questions of parents and grandparents. Even better, have them video the conversation. See my other "no fluff" products at Foundations First!!! Communication, parent, support,

Subjects:

Character Education, Family Consumer Sciences, Social Studies - History

Grades:

3rd - 12th

Types:

Activities, Cultural Activities

Are You Cereal? (Food Science Activity, Agriculture or FCS)

Created by

Steers and Gears

Connect food science to agriculture! Students will research nutritional information, marketing and product development in this assignment. Great for sub plans or online learning.

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education, Cooking, Family Consumer Sciences

Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Activities

Food and Culture - Interdisciplinary Research Project

Created by

Elena Teixeira

This lesson helps students explore the effect of culture on a person's food choices. After discussing the dietary guidelines of the USA (MyPlate), the students will look globally to explore food guides from countries around the world, and how they are reflective of that culture. Additionally, students will employ the Columbia University Teacher's College method of "boxes and bullets" to practice writing main ideas and providing supporting details for their writing and research aligned with the C

Subjects:

Cooking, English Language Arts, Family Consumer Sciences

Grades:

5th - 12th, Adult Education

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Lesson

Laundry/Garment/Textiles Care Symbols - Review Game & Flash Cards

Created by

Elena Teixeira

Use with your FACS, Home Ec, life skills, or textiles class to review the symbols on a care label. There are 18 cards included, as well as cut and pastable images so you can add/delete/adjust the cards to fit your needs. There is also a visual and written answer key. Being able to interpret these symbols is like speaking a language; we must understand them in order to take proper care of our clothing! Print the cards on card stock for a sturdy final product!Cards are differentiated to suit multi

Subjects:

Career and Technical Education, Family Consumer Sciences

Grades:

5th - 12th, Higher Education

Types:

Activities, Flash Cards, Games

MyPlate: Nutrition Graphic Organizer/Notes Sheet [Corresponds to Powerpoint]

Created by

Elena Teixeira

Use this sheet as you go through my Introduction to MyPlate powerpoint. Students will label and color the sections of MyPlate. There is space to record two essential definitions, variety and balance, which are included in the powerpoint for discussion. The bottom of the page has a spot to review examples of different foods that satisfy the different foods in my plate. I like to hand out toy food or food picture cards and have students place them in the correct section of MyPlate on an enlarged-s

Subjects:

Family Consumer Sciences, Health, Life Skills

Grades:

3rd - 12th, Adult Education

Types:

Worksheets, Handouts, Graphic Organizers

Also included in: MyPlate Nutrition - Full Mini Unit BUNDLE

IB PYP Exhibition Journal

Created by

Lighting a Learning Fire

IB Exhibition Journal takes students step by step through a PYP Exhibition, including choosing a topic, writing a central idea and key concept based lines of inquiry, learner profile checklist, research, and group presentation. Also includes planning calendar, student rubrics and teacher rubrics. General enough to work with an IB unit of inquiry, but delivered as a word document for editing and revising.

Subjects:

International Baccalaureate

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Research, Projects, Graphic Organizers

Practice Your Signature - Instant Activity for Cursive Writing

Created by

FACS Stands For FUN

With cursive no longer taught (or for very long), having kids write their signature is challenging! Have them start class each day by practicing their signature.

Subjects:

Family Consumer Sciences, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities

Making Ice Cream Lab: Phases of Matter

Created by

MissVLovesTeaching

The students will complete a lab to make their own ice cream. The lab has visual pictures accompanying the words and is perfect for special education students. There are post-lab questions, discussing phases of matter. The questions are differentiated (there is a lower level page of questions and a higher level page of questions).

Subjects:

Family Consumer Sciences, Science

Grades:

1st - 7th

Types:

Laboratory, Centers

Nutrition Label and Ingredient Analysis - Fun Food Activity

Created by

The Science of Science

Students investigate the nutrition and ingredients of a favorite food of theirs.Students bring in a wrapper or container of a favorite food or drink item and analyze the nutrition label and the ingredients list. Teachers can also provide students with print outs of food labels (easily found online). Encourage students to bring in "junk food". The more unhealthy and the more mysterious, unpronounceable ingredient, the more they will get out of it!Students reflect upon and write about how healthy

Subjects:

Family Consumer Sciences, Health, Science

Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Homework

Also included in: Nutrition Unit

Asking Questions and Critical Thinking - Forming Inquiry / Research Questions

Created by

Interconnected Learning

Help your students learn how to identify and ask higher-order thinking inquiry questions in class (science as well as other subject areas) and in life in general because this type of deep thinking promotes a richer classroom environment, critical thinking skills, and lifelong learning! Getting students to think deeply about what they want to know and generating higher-order inquiry questions is a skill that often, in my experience, needs to be explicitly taught in order the help students from

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, International Baccalaureate, Problem Solving

Grades:

PreK - 9th, Staff

Types:

Lesson, Centers

Wants vs. Needs Lesson Plan using IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE

Created by

Tina Mosier

This document is a first grade lesson plan designed to help students understand the difference between wants and needs. It includes a full lesson plan incorporating Laura Numeroff's book IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE, a bell-ringer worksheet, a chart and Venn diagram that could be used as transparencies or worksheets, an assessment worksheet to check for understanding, and a checklist for the assessment. Tina Mosier

Subjects:

Economics , Family Consumer Sciences, Life Skills

Grades:

1st

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

A Whole Math Unit of Inquiry - PYP Planner - Fractions, Decimals & Percentages

Created by

Samia's Store

Looking to enrich your curriculum with a well-crafted Math unit of inquiry? Look no further than this comprehensive planner! Dive into a world where numbers unlock endless connections and problem-solving opportunities. ⭐Here's a glimpse of what this bundle offers: A whole unit of inquiry about fractions, decimals, and percentages16 Learning Experiences for teaching and assessing all the unit conceptsClass Posters for the IB Learner Profile in Mathematics that serves as a student's self-assessmen

Subjects:

International Baccalaureate, Math

Grades:

4th - 5th, Staff

Types:

Unit Plans

Hand Sewing/Stitching Practice Worksheet

Created by

B Rebuck

Do you hate wasting precious fabric for your students to practice hand sewing? Do your students constantly make their stitches too small or too big? Well, then it's time to start having them practice on paper! :) Save yourself the time and agony of trying to space and calculate where to put your dots/stitches by using this handy worksheet!Check out the link below for a video explaining every stitch included on this worksheet.Link: Hand Stitching Videos Playlist on Youtube

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Family Consumer Sciences, Life Skills

Grades:

4th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Homework

Environmental protection, sustainable development projects for Grade 5 students

Created by

Aristotle's Hub

Environmental protection and sustainable development projects for Grade 5 students of PYP(Sharing The Planet)- By engaging in these projects, Grade 5 students will learn about environmental protection and sustainable practices and develop critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, International Baccalaureate, Problem Solving

Grades:

5th

Types:

Research, Projects, Activities

Reading For Life: Cooking and Recipes

Created by

Debra Bays

This teaching unit focuses on teaching both information text and independent living skills. The unit is broken down into five sections. 1. Cooking Utensils and Mixing Tools 2. Measurements 3. Cooking/Baking Recipes 4. Budgeting Each section can be taught separately as used as a stepping stone to the next section. This unit can be taught over a few weeks or several months. In my own classroom, I taught vocabulary and recipes over a few weeks and teach the development of grocery lists, bud

Subjects:

Cooking, Family Consumer Sciences, Informational Text

Grades:

5th - 12th, Adult Education

Types:

Unit Plans, Cultural Activities

Reading Food Labels Worksheet

Created by

Miss DoubleU

This worksheet can be used as a quick pre-assessment, practice exercise, or a formative assessment. It features a sample food label, and requires students to use their informational text reading skills to answer questions about nutritional content of the product.

Subjects:

Family Consumer Sciences, Health, Other (Science)

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Worksheets

Health Project: Personal Hygiene Pamphlet - Healthy Habits for Personal Wellness

Created by

Sarah Casey PE

Get ready to empower your students with essential personal hygiene knowledge as they embark on creating an informational pamphlet. This engaging project will focus on four crucial aspects of personal hygiene: washing, wearing clean clothes, wearing deodorant, and dental care. Through this project, students will not only deepen their understanding of personal hygiene but also develop valuable communication and presentation skills. Here's an outline to guide them through the process:Research: Enco

Subjects:

Family Consumer Sciences, Health, Physical Education

Grades:

4th - 9th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Assessment

Also included in: Engaging Middle School Health & PE Project Based Learning Bundle

Consumers and Producers Quiz

Created by

Rachael Kapousidis

This is a quiz on Consumers and Producers. Students are asked to list needs and wants, identify if things are goods or services, and explain the terms producer and consumer. It is presented in an easy to read format for second grade.

Subjects:

Economics , Family Consumer Sciences, Social Studies - History

Grades:

2nd

Types:

Assessment

PYP Grade 1 Unit plan of How We Express Ourselves

Created by

Nick's Corner

PYP Grade 1 Unit plan of How We Express Ourselves Unit with activities, and resources.

Subjects:

International Baccalaureate

Grades:

1st

Types:

Unit Plans, Activities, Lesson

Also included in: PYP Grade 1 All Unit plans

Pre-K 8 weeks lesson plan for Special Education Need Learners

Created by

Nick's Corner

Early years Pre-K 8-week lesson plan with activities and assessment ideas for each subject: ELA, Science, Social Study, Social-emotional Learning, and technology.

Subjects:

Early Intervention, International Baccalaureate, Special Education

Grades:

PreK

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Lesson