FCS Curriculum
Jewel Kneifl
Course: Intro to FCS 7th-9th
Unit Title/Description/Concept
What are Family and Consumer Sciences
● Identify the subjects within the field of Family
and Consumer Sciences
● Summarize how Family and Consumer
Sciences relates and impacts everyone.
Students will investigate responsible decision making
to healthy relationships.
Students will learn about their physical growth and
development
Students will apply healthy eating components as they
relate to their food choices
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Assessment Standard Taught
Students will complete an FACS Work Packet with table Intro to FCS State Standard 8
groups.
Students will complete FCCLA and AAFCS website
scavenger hunt on their own.
Students will define the personal health triangle. FCS.MSH.1
Students will discover which multiple intelligence(s) they
are strongest in.
Students will relate healthy relationship characteristics to
making and keeping friends and resisting
negative peer pressure.
Students will learn the steps in the decision-making
process.
Students will apply the decision-making process as they
complete their health behavior contract project
Students will understand why good personal hygiene is FCS.MSH.2
important.
Students will be made aware of the importance of
abstinence towards their physical growth and
development.
Students will expand their knowledge of puberty changes.
Students will identify the parts of their anatomy
Students will comprehend eating disorders and their FCS.MSH.3
negative effects on health.
Students will list the 6 nutrients and their functions and
sources.
Students will recognize the food pyramid as a resource
they can use to help make healthy food choices.
Students will recognize the importance of eating a healthy
breakfast and nutritious snacks.

Course: Intro to FCS 7th-9th
Students will learn basic sewing skills
Students will learn basic food and nutrition skills
Students will understand the importance of family as it
relates to their lives.
Students will learn basic job-related skills.
Students will analyze different parts of their
personalities that make them unique
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Students will identify basic sewing equipment. FCS.MSLS.1
Students will apply safety skills when using sewing
equipment.
Students will practice basic sewing techniques.
Students will construct sewing projects while applying
skills learned in the module.
Students will recognize the importance of the food guide FCS.MSLS.2
pyramid.
Students will apply basic measuring techniques.
Students will practice the importance of reading and
following a recipe.
Students will demonstrate basic safety and sanitation
guidelines while preparing foods.
Students will prepare basic recipes applying skills and
techniques learned.
Students will learn useful skills necessary for functional FCS.MSLS.3
family life.
Students will investigate the financial costs involved with
consumer decisions.
Students will be made aware of the emotional aspects
that occur in family life.
Students will learn skills necessary for taking care of their
clothes.
Students will apply elements of basic interior design
Students will work with a partner to complete their FCS.MSLS.4
modules.
Students will follow directions laid out for each module.
Students will utilize critical thinking and decision-making
skills when allowed in each module.
Students will stay organized while completing their
module.
Students will learn the fundamentals of time management
and staying on task when completing their
work.
Students will understand the foundation of their FCS.MSTI.1
personality as related to heredity, the environment
we live in and our response to our environment.

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Students will recognize the relationship among dating,
marriage and families
Students will investigate male and female anatomy
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Jewel Kneifl
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Students will relate personality characteristics to their own
birth order.
Students will complete various personality inventories.
Students will share information about their family.
Students will recognize the different ways individuals
grow.
Students will apply knowledge learned in this unit to
complete the “All About Me” writing
project.
Students will identify qualities to look for in a future FCS.MSTI.2
spouse.
Students will recognize appropriate/inappropriate
activities and behaviors that deal with dating.
Students will describe the following family related terms:
annulment, divorce, step-families, blended
families, foster families, extended families, adoption.
Students will relate the family life cycle to their own
families.
Students will apply knowledge they gained about
relationships and family as they write a story about
what their life would be like if their parents were to
divorce.
Students will label & identify the male & female body FCS.MSTI.3
parts.
Students will understand the functions of the body parts.
Students will recognize the importance of abstinence.
Students will be made aware of the possible health
consequences that occur with early sexual activity.
Students will apply what they learned about this topic as
they write and perform a skit about a teenager who
becomes sexually active.
 FCS Curriculum
Jewel Kneifl
FCS 314
Course: Intro to FCS 7th-9th