Exploring Life Skills

Exploring Life Skills offers a real-life approach to family and consumer sciences that prepares your students to meet the challenges of everyday living. In this colorfully illustrated text, your students will learn about “getting along in the world” with material that is both contemporary and practical. By applying personal management and practical reasoning to every topic, the text maximizes students’ learning.

• Bolsters students’ self-esteem by teaching them practical applications and skills through features such as You Can Do It.
• Prepares students for the future by introducing career skills and options.
• Benefits students with various styles with Life Skills Laboratory activities based on cross curricular and multiple intelligences.
• Gives students the opportunity to work together and develop communication skills in consensus-building activities.

The Workbook offers three to four thought-provoking exercises and activities per chapter to help students develop valuable life skills in consensus building activities. The Teacher’s Resource Kit includes six useful components to supplement the textbook as well as help teachers in providing students with the most complete information on family and consumer science.

Contents: Unit 1. Your Personal Best. 1. Your Self-Image. 2. Your Emotions. 3. Your Mind. 4. Your Attitude. 5. Your Personality. 6. Your Ethics. 7. Your Decisions. 8. Your Career Path. Unit 2. Your Relationships. 9. Your Heritage. 10.Your Family. 11. Your Peers. 12. Your Communication. 13. Your Understanding of Children. 14. Your Child-Care Skills. 15. Your Relations with the Elderly. Unit 3. Your Resource Management. 16. Your Resources. 17. Your Money. 18. Your Consumer Skills. 19. Your Environment. Unit 4. Your Diet. 20. Your Nutrition. 21. Your Fitness. 22. Your Meals. 23. Your Food Preparation Skills. 24. Your Cooking Skills. 25. Your Hospitality. Unit 5. Your Appearance. 26. Your Grooming. 27. Your Look. 28. Your Clothing. 29. Your Sewing Skills. Unit 6. Your Home. 30. Your Space. 31. Your Work at Home. 32. Your Community.