Family and Consumer Sciences

Occupational food service, Occupational clothing and textiles, and Occupational housing and interior design

Links verified 1/7/2019

1. Cooking and Food Theme - a collection of ideas to create a fun cooking/food theme in your classroom
2. Cooking Conversion Calculator - This tool converts weights, volumes, metric, US for specific food items - Conversion Tools - many to select from
3. Culinary Arts and Food Science Career Guide - explore careers in Culinary Arts and Food Science
4. EconEdLink - a premier source of classroom-tested, Internet-based economic education lesson plans for K-12 teachers and their students (a Thinkfinity partner site)
5. Eco-Friendly Painting Resource Guide - The history of eco-friendly paint as well as paint’s impact on health and the environment.
6. An Educator's Guide to Food Safety Material - dozens of links for educators to introduce food safety into their curriculum
7. Family and Consumer Science Sites - Save time with this comprehensive list of valuable resources in Family and Consumer Sciences. 
8. Family Consumer Sciences - New Ideas for FACS Teachers!
9. Food and Fitness - This curriculum guide for Foods & Nutrition 1 is a basic nutrition and food course with a science perspective.
10. Food and Nutrition - Jeopardy game format
11. Food and Science Core - Online Curriculum Unit with lessons and activities.
12. Food - Eggs, Poultry and Fish - Quiz Jeopardy Style 
13. Food Groups - a Quia quiz on nutrition
14. Food - How Food Works - food and how your body uses it
15. Food - Kitchen Equipment - Hangman Game 
16. Food Labels - How to understand food labels. 
17. Food Labels - U.S. Food and Drug Administration site to help understand food labels 
18. Food Labels - Figuring out food labels.
19. Food Labels Quiz - how truthful are food and nutrition labels
20. Food - Measurement and Equivalent - Quia quiz
21. Food - The Total Kitchen Experience! - Jeopardy format 
22. Food - Nutrition Guidelines - Rags to Riches game format 
23. Food Safety - Lessons and activities.
24. Food Safety After Covid 19 - best practices
25. Food Safety is in Your Hands - lesson plan on using proposed hand washing benchmarks for school meals programs
26. Food Sanitation Tips - including personal hygiene, food preparation tips, the two-spoon tasting method, hand washing, and food thawing
27. Health WebQuests - index of online lessons
28. Home Economics Resources - Various resources online.
29. Home Economics Archive - Subject feature an essay, images and a bibliography of core titles for the discipline.
30. Housing - Influences on Housing in the U.S. - Jeopardy game. Part Two - part two of a two part jeopardy game covering various influences
    on housing 
31. Housing - Meeting housing needs - Quia quiz 
32. Housing - Special Needs Housing - Quia quiz 
33. How School Lunch Programs Support Children’s Health, Even From A Distance - posted by Baylor University
34. How to Become an Interior Designer - how to become an interior designer should you decide to pursue this career path
35. Interior Design - A Day in the Life - career info 
36. Interior Design - American Society of Interior Designers
37. Kitchen Math - Lesson on fractions in the kitchen.
38. Kookist - a resource guide to food safety
39. Let's Cook: Class Curriculum - [269 pages] to promote fruit & vegetable consumption in children (ages 9-13) living in low incomehouseholds
40. Reading Food Nutrition Labels - Learning how to read and understand food labels can help you make healthier choices. Here are some tips for making the most of the information on the Nutrition Facts label.
41. Recipe Manipulation - Use math and spreadsheets to increase amounts in a recipe. You know the guests will eat a lot of it, so you'll make more than one serving per person.
42. Sewing Machine Parts - Scroll toward the bottom of the page and learn the parts of a sewing machine.
43. Sewing Machine Parts - identify parts of the machine and its function. 
44. Sewing - Care and storage of Equipment - Quia quiz 
45. Small Appliance Cooking Assignment - lesson plan: students will demonstrate how to make a simple recipe using only small kitchen appliances
46. Sugarcoating the Facts - lesson plan to help students analyze the nutrition charts found on food packaging
47. Textile - Hispanic Designers - Compare and contrast different styles of designers.
48. Textile Dye History - Timeline on the history of dyeing textiles
49. Textiles - Fabric Trademark and Brand Name Index - in alphabetical order
50. Textiles - Fabric Dictionary - Fabric terms
51. Textile - How Fabric is Made - Cranston Village 
52. Textiles - Fiber and Clothing Arts, and Art - studying medieval and renaissance activities.
53. Textile Design - Create you own fabric place mats
54. Textile Design - Fabric University - Fiber/Yarn Trademark and Brand Name Index
55. Textiles - Fabric Info
56. Textiles - Rayon - The Multi-Faceted Fiber - article on Rayon
57. WebQuests - index of online quests

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