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Consumer Science

Mrs. Meadow's Consumer Science Classes


Prerequisites/Co requisites:

None

Credit:

4653         Grade 12    Level 3            1 Credit

Course Description Summary:

A life skills course that focus on all facets of consumer science. These include but are not limited to career planning and personal finance, professions with in hospitality or vocational core studies, budgeting, taxes, credit, credit cards, checking accounts, investments, buying and maintaining an auto; housing in college—dorm vs. apartment vs. living at home.
The food and nutrition segment focuses on women’s health issues, healthy food habits, microwave and conventional cooking, baking from scratch, table etiquette and gifts from the kitchen. The classes will bake for several school events and create full meal menus for various charities.
 The basic sewing curriculum centers on traditional seams, finishes and construction of garments and home décor. The students will complete a portfolio of seams, seam finishes, pattern construction and fabric measurements. Seasonal decorations, charity sewing, purses and completion of a queen sized quilt are the major projects completed in the sewing segment.

Course Learner Goals:

  • Students will complete a unit on Listening and the basic techniques of correct communications.
  • Students will engage in Conflict Resolution activities as a tool for life management.
  • Students will participate in a life strategies unit that is based on assigned economic roles and community status.
  • Students will produce sewn items as dictated by the curriculum. Hemming pants, straights seam sewing: French, welt, flat-felt; appliqué, fusing, serging, embroidery, stuffing of items and hand sewing.  A unit designed around charity sewing is vital to this course’s core. Project Linus blankets, cancer caps, wheel chair and walker totes, and domestic violence quilts will be made by each student.
  • Students will engage in cooking, baking and microwaving with an emphasis on dorm/college survival foods. Each student will learn how to measure liquids and solids for menus. Students will learn how to convert recipes from conventional status to microwavable use.
  • Students will plan and execute a meal plan for homeless or handicapped people. The meal must fit the needs and abilities of the chosen group and feed more than 40 for under $100.00.
  • Students will explore the necessity of cultural celebrations. Seasonal decorations and ethnic foods will be demonstrated, tasted and practiced in this section.
  • Students will prepare and file their Individual Income taxes.
  • Students will explore and discuss the multi-faceted topic of Women’s Health. Diet, exercise, preventative testing and holistic concepts of health will be stressed.
  • Students will learn how to assess and decide on consumer purchases following a prescribed work and data exercise.  Needs versus wants are to be the main thrust of this segment.
  • Students will learn how to use credit and credit cards to their benefit and safety.

Syllabus:

I. Communications/Life Skills
    A. Listening Skills
    B. Conflict Resolutions
    C. Life Strategies
    D. Interpersonal Relations
    E. Goal setting-personal and professional/academic
    F. Promoting wellness /managing stress
    G. Consumer smarts
    H. Personal safety
II. Sewing
    A. Basic sewing and seams
    B. Mastering sewing techniques
    C. Pattern understanding, use and drafting of unique patterns
    D. Project Linus, cancer caps and seasonal crafts
    E. Prom purses and back-packs
    F. Queen sized quilt for the dorm/home
III. Cooking
    A. Sanitation and Safety
    B. Introduction to cooking—an art
    C. Measurement and recipe conversions
    D. Menu planning and shopping for food/groceries
    E. Introduction to baking—a science
    F. Bread making
    G. Cookies for the troops—Cakes for dessert theatre
    H. Charity cooking—Tender Mercies and Virtus groups
    I. Healthy choices
    J. Recipe swaps and classroom cookbooks

Textbook(s):

On cooking: a textbook of culinary fundamentals, 3e, Sarah Labensky,ccp
On baking: a textbook of traditional pastry techniques, 4e. Sarah Labensky, ccp
Martha Pullen’s techniques for Modern Seamstresses—curriculum from an 8 day workshop conducted July/2007
Fabric Sciences, Fairchild Publications
Life Strategies, Philip McGraw, PHD
A variety of DVDs from American Test Kitchen, Cooking with Paula Dean , Sewing is my Art, and Sewing for the new generation—machines and techniques, are used in class. I am constantly looking, reviewing and purchasing items that will make this curriculum understandable and exciting.
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  • 1699 Hilton Drive, Park Hills, KY 41011
  • (859) 261-4300
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