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Modern Living course description

COURSE TITLE:  Modern Living

LENGTH OF COURSE: 1 semester                        151.3   Clock Hours              

GRADE LEVEL: 10th

PREREQUISITES: None

TEACHING RESOURCES:

Interiors, Glencoe/McGraw Hill

Housing Slides, Cambridge

Guide to Good Food, Glencoe, 

The Developing Child, Glencoe/McGraw Hill

Parenting and Teaching Young Children Workbook

Homes for Tomorrow, Glencoe/McGraw Hill

Home Sweet Home and Apartment 3-B- Computer Software

CAD- Computer Software

Motivational Plus Notebook, Elizabeth Clay-McPhail

Your Newborn Baby, AV

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Consumer Resource Management is the emphasis of this course.  Using the “Home Hunter” computer program students take on the role of a Real Estate Agent to find housing to meet the needs and the budget of specific families in the case study. Students study housing styles, furniture and interior design. Students are able to read blueprints/house plans; they understand the fundamentals of drawing house plans, furniture placement and interior traffic patterns.  Students tour a carpet store and newly constructed houses.  For their final project students will research a career, by taking an Internet career assessment test.  From their chosen career student will choose a house to meet their lifestyles and decorate the house with in their allotted budget.  Students using consumer resource management skills are able to figure the cost per square foot of a house including the wall covering, floor covering and cabinetry.

            After buying and furnishing a house, students budget money to plan a nutritious meal using the food pyramid guidelines.  Student’s research recipes, order and figure the quantity and cost per serving of groceries, develop work schedules and assign classmates to prepare the economic, yet nutritious food.  Students also study special dietary needs.  

            To continue in the study of consumer resource management students look at community resources as it relates to family lifestyles.  Students look at childcare facilities and study the physical, emotional, intellectual and social areas of child development, pre-natal through adolescence.  Students have the opportunity to observe and do case studies on children in a pre-school setting and also in the lower elementary classes, kindergarten through third grade.

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

1.      Daily assignments

2.      Tests

3.      Project completion

4.      Classroom performance and participation

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