Family and Consumer Science Lessons

Free Family and Consumer Science Lessons

As a Family and Consumer Science teacher, you have much on your “plate”. Juggling multiple preps is intense, and as a creative person, you want every lesson to be on point and engaging for your students. Here are some of my favorite FREE resources for your FACS class:

• Child Development Lessons for High School and Middle School–

  • Babysitting Digital Escape Room
  • Child Development Bell Work Activity

Child development high school classes can be tricky because teaching materials are complex. It is such a fun class to teach, though it can be very relatable to students as they can think about their childhood and other children.

Nutrition Lessons for High School

Nutrition is a life skill that students value learning about, and it always surprises me how little they know about good food and what their bodies need. The MyPlate website has been an excellent tool for teaching nutrition.

• Nutrition Lessons for High School and Middle School-

  • MyPlate Life Stages Activity
  • Food Allergies Lesson
  • Sugar Digital Escape Room

Financial literacy should be taught to all teenagers! You can’t get by without this life skill, and it is fantastic to see some high schools cutting FACS classes. Lately, it seems like we do all finances online, but teens still need to know skills, like writing checks, that they aren’t exposed to as much.

• Financial Literacy and Life Skills Lessons for High School and Middle School-

  • Check Writing Board Game
  • Paycheck Stations

Learning to cook is such an essential skill as food prices have increased and going out to eat has become more expensive. Your students will appreciate all you teach them when they head to college or out alone! We also have a full culinary arts curriculum bundle in our TPT store that may interest you. It will have you planned for an entire semester or school year!

• Culinary Arts or Food and Nutrition Class-

  • Culinary Inventory
  • Food Plating Worksheet
  • Absent from Food Lab Activity
  • Culinary Scope and Sequence

Check out our culinary arts curriculum for an entire semester! It will make your life so much easier and will keep your students engaged in learning how to cook! The culinary arts lesson plans include detailed, editable plans with standards, slideshows, guided notes, questions, assessments, and engaging activities.

Some other Child Development lesson plans for high school that we have in our TPT store include:

• Child Development Bell Ringer Journal for an entire semester!
• Child Development Choice Board for early finishers and sub plans.
• Nature vs. Nurture Lesson in Google
• Types of Schools Webquest for learning about the education system.
• Child Development Board Game for review of child development vocabulary.