Family and Consumer Science classes offered at Crofton
Exploratory Family and Consumer Sciences
Exploratory Required Class: Grade 7
Length: 9 weeks
Credit(s):N/A
Description:This is a required class for all 7th graders. Topics include Personality & Relationships, Listening Skills, Goal Setting, Public Speaking, Kitchen Safety and Sanitation, Nutrition, and microwave cooking.
Exploratory Family and Consumer Sciences
Exploratory Required Class: Grade 8
Length: 9 weeks
Credit(s):N/A
Description: This is a required couse for all 8th grade students. Students will study Money Management, Caring for Children, Clothing Care, participate in an entrepreneurial business, and construct a sewing project.
Intro to Human Sciences/FCS
Exploratory Class: Grade 9
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description:This course is one the first FCS classes you take in high school. Students in this class cover many different FCS related topics. Some class activities include cooking, sewing, healthy eating, adult living, and career decisions and preparation.
Food, Nutrition, and Wellness
Exploratory Class:Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Required Previous Class: Intro to Human Sciences/ FCS
Description:This class is a class specifying on the culinary arts. Students in this class will learn the safety rules of the kitchen, proper knife cuts, and how to use many different types of culinary equipment. One of the final projects of this class is hosting buffet for the teachers, and making a cook book with the recipes they used.
Culinary Skills I
Exploratory Class: Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description: This class introduces students to the world of culinary arts. Students learn specific techniques in the culinary kitchen, which can also be transferred to the home kitchen. Safety and sanitation are emphasized, along with knife skills , food presentation and service, pasta making, chicken preparation, baking techniques, bread baking, pie making, etc.
Culinary Skills II
Exploratory Class: Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description: Techniques that are covered in Culinary Skills I are put to the test in the advanced portion of this class. Students compete against each other in an Iron Chef contest, share cake decorating skills, serve food for a variety of social settings, i.e. board meetings, staff breakfasts, special school events, and culminate with a buffet of appetizers for all school staff called the Spring Fling. Students are scored on their capacity to carry out skills in the kitchen, teamwork, responsibility, product development, etc.
Healthy Lifestyles
Exploratory Class: Grades 9-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description: This health class focuses on decisions students make concerning their health including the exercise they choose and food/drink choices they make. Two days per week are spent in actual activity, i.e. physical assessment, weight lifting, warm up excercises, soccer, flash football, kick ball, tennis, volleyball, basketball, etc. Choices that can become lifelong physical activities are encouraged. Three days are spent studying health issues, including nutrition, diet plans, fast food eating, choosing home fitness equipment, achohol and tobacco use, mental health, safety while driving, etc. Students are instructed in and become certified in CPR.
Textiles Foundations
Exploratory Class:Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description:The Textile industry is examined in this class with discussion on fabrics, fabric content, weaves, finishes, etc. A review of sewing techniques is studied and then students are involved in many hands-on projects tailored to each class. Such items could be back sacks, hand sewn pincushions, pillow cases, photo transfer to fabric, machine embroidery, knitting, crochet, etc. A final project is the creation of a twin-sized (minimun) quilt. Students choose patterns, fabrics, embellishments, etc. to create their own personal quilt.
Housing and Interior Design
Exploratory Class: Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description: This class takes a look at the history of housing and various cultures and types of housing. Students will look at room arrangements in floor plans, clearances for architectural elements, furniture arrangement, furniture construction, and purchasing furniture. Also featured in the class will be the study of color in interior design, trends in colors, textures, fabrics, etc. Students will develop presentation boards depicting floor plans, interior design choices, samples of furnishings, etc. The class will conclude with a recycled project in which the student chooses a project, obtains supplies and carries out the recylcing of the product into a usable interior design plan.
Life and Career Readiness (Adult Living)
Exploratory Class: Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description: Students do a "Reality Check" by investigating possibilities for their futures. Possible careers are looked at along with college requirements and employment opportunities. Money Management includes budgeting, saving, investing, earning, etc. Students study insurance types and options as related to their lives. Students study the relationship between friends, dating relationships, engagement, and marriage. Members of the class also investigate how crisis in the family affects family members and relationships.
Fashion Design
Exploratory Class: Grades 11-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Required Previous Class: Textiles Foundations
Description: This advanced sewing class is designed for those who are interested in perfecting their sewing skills, and delve further into sewing techniques typically involved in sewing clothing. Students create projects of their choosing. Pattern design is a possibility along with re-designing an existing garment into another garment.
Life Planning 101
Exploratory Class: Grades: 11-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Required Previous Class: Life and Career Readiness(Adult Living)
Description: This advanced class is for those students wanting to delve further into their career choices, college choices, financial planning for their future, scholarships available, etc. Students also take a look at relationships with roommates, future employers, and co-workers. Students will also spend time studying parenting skills for school age children and their development.
Parenting Decisions
Exploratory Class: Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description: This portion of the class takes a look at the decision to parent. Students look at why they want to be parents and decisions that come as a result of being a parent. Study includes pregnancy, delivery, caring for infants and early childhoos development. Students organize and carry out a short preschool activity for community children that are in the preschool age group.
Exploratory Required Class: Grade 7
Length: 9 weeks
Credit(s):N/A
Description:This is a required class for all 7th graders. Topics include Personality & Relationships, Listening Skills, Goal Setting, Public Speaking, Kitchen Safety and Sanitation, Nutrition, and microwave cooking.
Exploratory Family and Consumer Sciences
Exploratory Required Class: Grade 8
Length: 9 weeks
Credit(s):N/A
Description: This is a required couse for all 8th grade students. Students will study Money Management, Caring for Children, Clothing Care, participate in an entrepreneurial business, and construct a sewing project.
Intro to Human Sciences/FCS
Exploratory Class: Grade 9
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description:This course is one the first FCS classes you take in high school. Students in this class cover many different FCS related topics. Some class activities include cooking, sewing, healthy eating, adult living, and career decisions and preparation.
Food, Nutrition, and Wellness
Exploratory Class:Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Required Previous Class: Intro to Human Sciences/ FCS
Description:This class is a class specifying on the culinary arts. Students in this class will learn the safety rules of the kitchen, proper knife cuts, and how to use many different types of culinary equipment. One of the final projects of this class is hosting buffet for the teachers, and making a cook book with the recipes they used.
Culinary Skills I
Exploratory Class: Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description: This class introduces students to the world of culinary arts. Students learn specific techniques in the culinary kitchen, which can also be transferred to the home kitchen. Safety and sanitation are emphasized, along with knife skills , food presentation and service, pasta making, chicken preparation, baking techniques, bread baking, pie making, etc.
Culinary Skills II
Exploratory Class: Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description: Techniques that are covered in Culinary Skills I are put to the test in the advanced portion of this class. Students compete against each other in an Iron Chef contest, share cake decorating skills, serve food for a variety of social settings, i.e. board meetings, staff breakfasts, special school events, and culminate with a buffet of appetizers for all school staff called the Spring Fling. Students are scored on their capacity to carry out skills in the kitchen, teamwork, responsibility, product development, etc.
Healthy Lifestyles
Exploratory Class: Grades 9-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description: This health class focuses on decisions students make concerning their health including the exercise they choose and food/drink choices they make. Two days per week are spent in actual activity, i.e. physical assessment, weight lifting, warm up excercises, soccer, flash football, kick ball, tennis, volleyball, basketball, etc. Choices that can become lifelong physical activities are encouraged. Three days are spent studying health issues, including nutrition, diet plans, fast food eating, choosing home fitness equipment, achohol and tobacco use, mental health, safety while driving, etc. Students are instructed in and become certified in CPR.
Textiles Foundations
Exploratory Class:Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description:The Textile industry is examined in this class with discussion on fabrics, fabric content, weaves, finishes, etc. A review of sewing techniques is studied and then students are involved in many hands-on projects tailored to each class. Such items could be back sacks, hand sewn pincushions, pillow cases, photo transfer to fabric, machine embroidery, knitting, crochet, etc. A final project is the creation of a twin-sized (minimun) quilt. Students choose patterns, fabrics, embellishments, etc. to create their own personal quilt.
Housing and Interior Design
Exploratory Class: Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description: This class takes a look at the history of housing and various cultures and types of housing. Students will look at room arrangements in floor plans, clearances for architectural elements, furniture arrangement, furniture construction, and purchasing furniture. Also featured in the class will be the study of color in interior design, trends in colors, textures, fabrics, etc. Students will develop presentation boards depicting floor plans, interior design choices, samples of furnishings, etc. The class will conclude with a recycled project in which the student chooses a project, obtains supplies and carries out the recylcing of the product into a usable interior design plan.
Life and Career Readiness (Adult Living)
Exploratory Class: Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description: Students do a "Reality Check" by investigating possibilities for their futures. Possible careers are looked at along with college requirements and employment opportunities. Money Management includes budgeting, saving, investing, earning, etc. Students study insurance types and options as related to their lives. Students study the relationship between friends, dating relationships, engagement, and marriage. Members of the class also investigate how crisis in the family affects family members and relationships.
Fashion Design
Exploratory Class: Grades 11-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Required Previous Class: Textiles Foundations
Description: This advanced sewing class is designed for those who are interested in perfecting their sewing skills, and delve further into sewing techniques typically involved in sewing clothing. Students create projects of their choosing. Pattern design is a possibility along with re-designing an existing garment into another garment.
Life Planning 101
Exploratory Class: Grades: 11-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Required Previous Class: Life and Career Readiness(Adult Living)
Description: This advanced class is for those students wanting to delve further into their career choices, college choices, financial planning for their future, scholarships available, etc. Students also take a look at relationships with roommates, future employers, and co-workers. Students will also spend time studying parenting skills for school age children and their development.
Parenting Decisions
Exploratory Class: Grades 10-12
Length: One Semester
Credit(s): 5 credits
Description: This portion of the class takes a look at the decision to parent. Students look at why they want to be parents and decisions that come as a result of being a parent. Study includes pregnancy, delivery, caring for infants and early childhoos development. Students organize and carry out a short preschool activity for community children that are in the preschool age group.