Teacher: Donnesha Stewart

Subject : Family and Consumer Management

Grade 7 Gordon
Duration: 1hr , 10 Min
Date: March 24, 2021
Topic: The Family
Attainment Target 2: Through a project base approach, students will be able to Explore Methods &

Procedures in identifying and solving family and community problems.

Attainment Target 4: Through a project base approach students will develop the ability to analyze Career

Pathways within family and community services

General Objectives: Recognize the Family as the basic unit of society.

Specific Objectives:

: At the end of the lesson students should be able to:

1. Review the Functions of the Family

2. Restate the Characteristics of a healthy family

3. Discuss Family and Community Resources

Materials/ instructional aids/resources:

Certificate Management of Homes and Families by Thelma Stewart and Management by Rita Dyer &

Norma Maynard,

Blank papers, smart phones, laptop computer. Family tree.

Google Classroom Resources

Methodology/ strategies / Group Collaboration. Peer group Discussion, Teacher Guided Discussion,
Questioning and Answering,
research and reporting

Prior Learning
Students live in some form of family and experience family relationships
Students learnt previously how to conduct a research and present the findings
Science: Students should learn practically about the structures and functions of the Family

Technology: / Use technology to develop a logical process for decision making and problem solving/

Video explaining they types of family

Engineering: Generate ideas on a list of activities to increase family and community.

Mathematics. Identify quantity of family types/ Use the correct units, tools and attributes to estimate,

compare and carry out the processes of measurement to a given degree of accuracy
Content:

1. The functions of the Family

1. Procreation and Rearing of Children

2. Providing Food, Clothing and Shelter

3. Transmitting the Culture

4. Socialization

5. Education: all members obtain an education to enable them to make valuable contributions

to society

6. Emotional Security: family members sees the family as apace where they feel comfortable

to express their true feeling and receive the suppot and guidance

7. Conferring status

Status may be either achieved or ascribed

Ascribed status: this is conferred to the child at birth. Or by adoption when he/she is brought into

relationships with other family members like mother father sister brother. Ascribed status includes

citizenship, religion and membership into the community.

• Achieved status: an individual may achieve status from other institutions outside of the

family. This comes from society and is the result of hard work by the individual. The status of

bank manager, teacher, lawyer, pastor are examples .

Education is one way by which we can alter our status.

2. Restate the Characteristics of a healthy family

1. The members of the household are committed to one another.

The family, therefore, is a unit with members dedicated to living their lives in support of one another with

unquestioned loyalty
2. A healthy family spends time together.

A wholesome, healthy family believes that time together cannot have quality without sufficient quantity.

3. A healthy family enjoys open, frequent communication.

No question is inappropriate, no opinion is disrespected, and no subject is considered off limits.

Important, life-determining subjects are naturally intermingled with the mundane.

4. The healthy family turns inward during times of crisis.

Members of wholesome, healthy families work through difficulties together. A crisis brings them closer

because they look within the family for strength rather than looking to something outside.

5. Members of a healthy family express affirmation and encouragement often.

"Good job!" "I admire you for that!" "You mean a lot to me!" Notice that affirmation and encouragement

are different. Both are necessary to help others discover who they are and what they do well, which builds

a strong sense of personal security.

6. The members of a healthy family share a spiritual commitment.

The family members are bound in unity by their shared relationship with God, and they learn to nurture it

as a result of mutual encouragement.

7. Each person in a healthy household trusts the others and values the trust he has earned.

This trust is built upon mutual respect and a dedication to truth.

8. The members of a healthy family enjoy freedom and grace.

Each has the freedom to try new things, think different thoughts, embrace values and perspectives that

may be new to the family, and even challenge old ways of doing things. All of this is built upon grace.

Everyone has the freedom to fail, to be wrong, and to have faults and weaknesses without fear of rejection

or condemnation. In a grace-based environment, failure is kept in perspective so that members of the

family have enough confidence to recover, grow, and achieve.

 3. Discuss Family and Community Resources

A community is a social unit with commonality such as norms, religion, values, customs, or identity.

Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village,

town, or neighbourhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms

Examples of Community resources

Libraries , schools. Churches. Playing field, supermarkets,

health centres Gas Stations, Wholesale. Hospitals. Internet cafes, Bar, Restaurants, Community Centers,

Police station. Post office, Bakery. Furniture shop. Hair salon. Pharmacies

Community Resources are assets in a community that help meet certain needs for those around
them. These assets can be people, places or structures, and community services.

The family can be regarded as a small community within a larger community

The behavior of the community is a reflection of the behavior of family units

If the members of the family are good citizens they will do things to uplift and assist the

community

Families can help each other by being good neighbor’s, and look out for the safety of each other.

Eg neighborhood watch.

Engagement

Students will be engaged with the topic by watching a video on the Community

Communities for Kids - Types of Communities | Social Studies for Kids | Kids Academy

Video Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC0zxgRNJQ

Students will share theor opinions on the Video

Exploration:

Explanation :

Students will share their research.

Teacher will
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Evaluation :
The oral presentations will be evaluated for Grammar , Diction, structure and Content

Mark Scheme Marks

Diction 5
Family Type Identification 2

Content 5
Structure 3

Total 15