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Family and Consumer Sciences (occupational child care, occupational food service, occupational clothing and textiles, and occupational housing and interior design)

1. Appliance Demonstration - Lesson Plan
2. Cooking Conversion Calculator - This tool converts weights, volumes, metric, US for specific food items - Conversion Tools - many to select from
3. Cooking - Theme Meal - Lesson Plan
4. Culinary Arts and Food Science Career Guide - explore careers in Culinary Arts and Food Science
5. EconEdLink - a premier source of classroom-tested, Internet-based economic education lesson plans for K-12 teachers and their students (a Thinkfinity partner site)
6. Family and Consumer Science Sites - Save time with this comprehensive list of valuable resources in Family and Consumer Sciences. Each link corresponds to the 16 National Teaching Standards in the discipline.
7. Family and Consumer Sciences Standards and Competency Profiles - from the Tennessee Department of Education
8. Food- a scientific systems approach to an advanced food science and nutrition course to be taught in the home economics laboratory - Online Curriculum Unit with lessons and activities.
9. Food and Nutrition - [this link opens on a new page] Jeopardy game format
10. Food - Eggs, Poultry and Fish - [this link opens on a new page] Quiz Jeopardy Style
11. Food Groups - [this link opens on a new page] a Quia quiz on nutrition
12. Food - How Food Works - food and how your body uses it
13. Food - Kitchen Equipment - [this link opens on a new page] Hangman Game
14. Food Labels - How to understand food labels.
15. Food Labels - U.S. Food and Drug Administration site to help understand food labels
16. Food Labels - Figuring out food labels.
17. Food - Measurement and Equivalent - [this link opens on a new page] Quia quiz
18. Food - The Total Kitchen Experience! - [this link opens on a new page] Jeopardy format
19. Food - Nutrition Guidelines - [this link opens on a new page] Rags to Riches game format
20. Food Safety - Lessons and activities.
21. Food Sanitation Tips - including personal hygiene, food preparation tips, the two-spoon tasting method, hand washing, and food thawing
22. Health WebQuests - online lessons
23. Home Economics Resources - Various resources online.
24. Home Economics Archive - Subject feature an essay, images and a bibliography of core titles for the discipline.
25. Housing - [this link opens on a new page] Influences on Housing in the U.S. - Jeopardy game. Part Two - part two of a two part jeopardy game covering various influences
    on housing [this link opens on a new page].
26. Housing - Meeting housing needs - [this link opens on a new page] Quia quiz
27. Housing - Special Needs Housing - [this link opens on a new page] Quia quiz
28. Integrate Technology into your lessons - from 4teachers.org. Select your area and topic to see resources.
29. Interior Design - A Day in the Life - career info
30. Interior Design - American Society of Interior Designers
31. Kitchen Math - Lesson on fractions in the kitchen.
32. Lesson Plans - Scroll down to the FCS section for lesson plans
33. Personal Services Resources - Ever think about what it takes to be a funeral director? a baseball umpire? a cake decorator? Use this page of resources to find answers
    to unusual job qualifications.
34. Personal Resource Management -

    1. Real Life Situations Using Basic Math Skills - lesson plan
    2. The Game of Life - lesson plan
35. 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.
36. Sewing Machine Parts - Scroll toward the bottom of the page and learn the parts of a sewing machine.
37. Sewing Machine Parts - [this link opens on a new page] identify parts of the machine and its function.
38. Sewing - Care and storage of Equipment - [this link opens on a new page] Quia quiz
39. Sugarcoating the Facts - lesson plan
40. Textile - Hispanic Designers - Compare and contrast different styles of designers.
41. Textile Dyeing History - Timeline on the history of dyeing textiles
42. Textiles - Fabrics.net - a one- stop- everything- you- ever- wanted- to- know- about- fabrics, trims, care, embroidery, knitting, vintage fabric and quilting megasite..
43. Textiles - Fabric Origami Workshop - It's quicker than quilting, more forgiving than paper, and durable. Just iron out mistakes and refold. Some origami require only
    6 inches of fabric. This is a quilter's dream for those leftover pieces of fabric.
44. Textiles - Fabric Trademark and Brand Name Index - in alphabetical order
45. Textiles - Fabric Dictionary - Fabric terms
46. Textiles - FabricLink's Career Paths for the Textile Industy
47. Textile - How Fabric is Made - Cranston Village
48. Textiles - Fiber and Clothing Arts, and Art - studying medieval and renaissance activities.
49. Textile Information - Facts on Wool, Cotton, Linen and more
50. Textile Design - Create you own fabric place mats
51. Textile Design - FabricTrends: magazine
52. Textile Design - On-line color management tool for the textile and surface industries
53. Textile Design - Fabric University - Fiber/Yarn Trademark and Brand Name Index
54. Textiles - Fabric Info
55. Textiles - About Homespun Thai Silk
56. Textiles - Rayon - The Multi-Faceted Fiber - article on Rayon
57. WebQuests - Art and Design online quests.

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