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Richmond, Jim; And Others – 1986
This manual, written especially for the Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation Commission, is a simply worded, step-by-step guide to home maintenance for new homeowners. It can be used for self-study or it can serve as instructional material for a training class on home ownership. The manual is organized in nine sections that cover the following…
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indians, Cleaning, Equipment
Nicholls State Univ., Thibodaux, LA. – 1986
This document contains teacher's materials for seventh- and eighth-grade courses in exploratory homemaking in Louisiana. The seventh-grade course materials are on instructional units called orientation, assuming responsibility, care of the elderly, child care and development, clothing and textiles, consumer awareness, food and nutrition, home…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Child Rearing, Clothing Instruction, Foods Instruction
PDF pending restorationWashington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1981
This curriculum guide has been developed to assist home and family life education teachers in identifying goals, course objectives, and supporting generalizations in the area of housing. The guide includes five program goals: (1) make decisions based on the relationship between housing and the environment; (2) make housing decisions based on…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Consumer Education, Family Environment, Home Economics
Tipsord, Barbara; And Others – 1982
This manual contains supplementary information for use by instructors who teach consumer education and resources management to physically handicapped students in regular classes. It is subdivided according to typical consumer education topics and handicapping conditions. Addressed in the individual sections of the manual are the folowing topics:…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Clothing, Consumer Education, Daily Living Skills
Download full textOhio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1966
Developed by teachers, supervisors, and teacher educators, this guide is designed to aid teachers and administrators in planning and implementing effective junior and senior high school home economics education programs. The first section of the guide covers general background information such as the purpose and role of home economics, teacher…
Descriptors: Child Development, Clothing Instruction, Consumer Economics, Foods Instruction
Bernadt, Ruth – 1981
The instructional aids in this packet were designed to be used by high school home economics teachers who have Spanish speaking students with limited English skills mainstreamed into their regular classes. The teaching aids can be used by both English and Spanish speaking students at the same time because both Spanish and English are presented on…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Color Planning, Design, Furniture Arrangement
Clemson Univ., SC. Vocational Education Media Center. – 1980
This instructor's guide is designed to accompany the sixty-seven modules for a housing and home furnishings course (available separately--see note). Two types of information are provided for each module. The first page of the materials for the module correlates contents of the module (student information, student self-checks, and evaluator's final…
Descriptors: Electrical Appliances, Furniture, Gardening, Home Economics
Bitz, Ann – 1987
This curriculum guide contains content outlines and outlines of the specific learning objectives for all courses taught in the Home Economics Department of Sweet Grass County High School, Montana. The courses are Homemaking for Today, Foods and Nutrition, Housing and Home Furnishings, Single Survival, Clothing I, Clothing II, Family Life, and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Clothing Instruction, Course Content, Course Descriptions
PDF pending restorationMANN, OPAL H. – 1964
A STUDY WAS MADE OF THE NEED FOR EXTENSION WORK WITH LOW INCOME FAMILIES IN EASTERN KENTUCKY (APPALACHIA) AND OF THE PROBLEMS AND TRAINING NEEDS OF HOME DEMONSTRATION EXTENSION AGENTS WHO WORK WITH THESE FAMILIES. THE AGENTS FELT THEY HAD A RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP LOW INCOME FAMILIES IN BUDGETING TIME, EFFORT, AND RESOURCES TO MEET MINIMUM…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Clothing Instruction, Educational Needs, Extension Agents
Monts, Elizabeth A.; Barkely, Margaret V. – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1980
A study was conducted to identify the essential living skills of males and females in the major roles of family member, individual, and employed person. Skills identified as most important dealt with finance, housing, clothing, feeding, transportation, physical aspects, social activites, and interaction of family members. (CT)
Descriptors: Clothing, Employed Parents, Family Involvement, Family Life
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Instructional Materials Lab. – 1983
These materials for the curriculum area of creating a living environment comprise one of six such packages that are part of the Ohio Vocational Consumer/Homemaking Curriculum Guide. The curriculum area or perennial problem taken up in this document is divided into three practical problems regarding: (1) a place to live; (2) managing a home…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Consumer Education, Curriculum Guides, Decision Making
Clemson Univ., SC. Vocational Education Media Center. – 1980
These sixty-seven modules provide student materials for a home economics course in housing and home furnishings. (A companion instructor's guide is available separately--see note.) Each module contains an objective, student information, learning activities (and activity sheets as needed), student self-checks, student self-check answers, check-out…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Electrical Appliances, Furniture
Royal Commission on Agriculture and Rural Life, Regina (Saskatchewan). – 1956
Various aspects of rural homes and families in the changing environment of rural Saskatchewan were examined in terms of "level of living" (how they live) and "standard of living" (how they would like to live). Housewives, homemaker clubs, and other interested groups were questioned concerning certain features of family living…
Descriptors: Clubs, Environmental Influences, Family Problems, Family Relationship
Chastain, Marsha; Glendenning, Owen – 1987
This third project of "The Museum Connection" is designed for sixth grade students and is devoted to New Harmony, Indiana's first utopian community (1814-24). Eight lesson plans include information on materials needed and activities. Goals include: (1) to compare and contrast modern-day New Harmony to Harmonie, Indiana in 1816; (2) to…
Descriptors: Construction (Process), Cross Cultural Studies, Family Life, Grade 6
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Curriculum Center. – 1984
This guide is designed to give advanced or upper-level consumer and homemaking education students a chance to take a futuristic look at the roles they will have as consumers in the next years. Divided into 12 units, the first three cover the consumer, the family, and consumer responsibilities. The next eight units are on the goods and services…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Clothing, Consumer Education, Electrical Appliances
