Family and Consumer Science

The Family And Consumer Science curriculum fosters high-level, critical thinking and communication skills needed to solve the personal, family, career, and community challenges students will face throughout their lives.

While it is easy to recognize the importance of traditional academics for future success, too often we do not recognize the importance of positive human relationships, good personal nutrition, and a balanced lifestyle play in students' ability to come to school ready to learn. The Family and Consumer Science (FACS) curriculum is more than “common sense”. It is the discipline that fills an educational void with knowledge, skills, and habits of the mind that make a difference; preparing students to be successful for life and equipping them with the tools they need to fulfill their role as productive citizens.

Using time and resource management, FACS students develop abilities to improve communication skills, understand consumer-related problems, investigate how health-related problems can be remedied by good nutrition, and build on culinary skills to foster greater independence in the kitchen (6^th and 7^th grade only).

Engaging students through observation, deduction, hands-on development, critical thinking, time management, and evaluation, FACS has a long history of helping students attain the knowledge and skills needed to meet the challenges of their contemporary society.

Areas of Study by Grade