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Family & Consumer Sciences

• A Look at Home Economics Programs in North American Adventist Schools Grade 9-Tertiary
  
  Results of research on the status of home economics in Adventist academies and colleges in North America. Four surveys dealing with the teaching of home economics were sent out. Survey results indicate that the majority of schools no longer require or even...
• American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences Grade 9-Lifelong
  
  This is the website for the National Association of Family & Consumer Sciences, with information about education and employment opportunities in this field.
• An Effective Marketing Plan for Home Economics Grade 9-Tertiary
  
  What kind of marketing strategies can help dispel the misconception that home economics is merely training for homemaking? Four strategies for marketing home economics are suggested. Making the subject relevant to the lives of young people requires innovation...
• Burial or Cremation? Tertiary
  
  The issue of cremation has been discussed by numerous Seventh-Day Adventists when loved ones have requested this process. Many use a text in the bible to say that it is wrong. Find out what George W. Reid has to say on the matter.
• Families, Neighborhoods and Communities Grade 1-Grade 3
  
  The purpose of this unit is to help students from the beginning of their education to become aware that God created the family unit to be the center of an orderly and God-fearing society. It explores a traditional family, neighborhood and community and shows...
• Family and Consumer Sciences - NAD Secondary Textbook List Grade 9-Grade 12
  
  The current NAD secondary textbook list for Family and Consumer Sciences. Textbooks for the following subjects are listed: child development, clothing, consumer education, family living, foods and nutrition, general home arts, and housing.
• Home Economics Methods for the Secondary Level Grade 9-Grade 12
  
  Ideas and teaching methods for getting secondary students interested in home economics. Ideas include teacher enthusiasm, using a variety of methods, making the classroom surroundings pleasant, and establishing guidelines and then letting students pick the...
• Home Economics: High School Supplements SSD Grade 7-Grade 12
  
  Adventist teachers' handbooks for integrating faith and values: these are practical guides with a variety of approaches to teaching key values, illustrations and examples. Separate booklets are available for each subject, including: Art, Business, Computer,...
• How Stuff Works Grade 5-Lifelong
  
  Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works or what makes your refrigerator cold? Then How Stuff Works is the place for you! Browse hundreds of cool articles in categories: Computers & Internet, Living & Entertainment, Engines & Automotive,...
• JAE Editorial: Home Economics, Investing in Families Kindergarten-Tertiary
  
  Home economics strengthens the family by dealing with all the phases of the life cycle. There are many career opportunities. Supporting home economics education and its curriculum requirements is a statement of support for stable, happy Adventist individuals...
• Library Video Company Kindergarten-Lifelong
  
  The leading educational video distributor includes over 18,000 in-stock educational video and DVD titles.
• NAD Vocational and Technology Education 9-12 Grade 9-Grade 12
  
  A position paper encouraging and outlining uniform standards for NAD vocational and technology education. Subjects included: Family and Consumer Sciences, Business and Computer Education, Industrial Technology/Trades, Health and Nutrition, Career Education,...
• NASCO Online Catalogs Kindergarten-Lifelong
  
  NASCO's online catalogs offer over 65,000 products for arts and crafts, dissection, early learning, family and consumer sciences, farm and ranch or agricultural sciences, hands-on health, health care, math, nutrition, physical education and team sports, project...
• Revitalizing Home Economics Grade 9-Tertiary
  
  How can educators refute the arguments favoring elimination of home economics and revitalize the subject at the same time? Ideas include embarking on a public relations campaign, building faculty and administrative support, considering a name change, reorganizing...
• Service is Nothing But Love in Work Clothes Kindergarten-Grade 12
  
  Ruth Smith shares the various ways her home economics class is able to model and teach service within the school, community and mission outreach. Some of the activities include making soup for the local men's shelter, cookies for the food bank, sewing quilts,...
• Teenager's Guide to the Real World Online Grade 7-Grade 12
  
  Online resources to help teenagers decide what to do with their lives. Links and suggestions for volunteering, dating, studying, creating your own webpage, working, buying a car, planning for college and a career, and more. This is based around the book, Teenager's...
• The Gateway to Educational Materials Kindergarten-Lifelong
  
  The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high-quality lesson plans, curriculum units, and other education resources on the Internet. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
• The Role of Vocational Studies in Adventist Secondary Education Tertiary-Lifelong
  
  Henry "focuses on the importance of vocational training in Jamaican Adventist Schools, its significance in this process of integration and indeed the need to improve educational offering in this area." This paper was presented at the 17th Institute...
• The Stock Market Game Grade 5-Tertiary
  
  SMG gives students the chance to invest a hypothetical $100,000 in an on-line portfolio. They think they're playing a game. You know they're learning economic and financial concepts they'll use for the rest of their lives. The Stock Market Game™ program offers...
• Training in Up-to-Date Careers in Home Economics Grade 9-Tertiary
  
  The crisis in academy-level home economics has created a demand at the college/university level for programs leading to a wider variety of careers in the area. Student interest in home economics has become more specialized. Examples of job opportunities within...